Physicality...
"Master Jade might be the Order's top blademaster. She even knows Vaapad, the style that's only ever taught to high-level masters of multiple Forms, traditionally. Something to aspire to, eh?"
- Jend-Ro Quill
I've picked 10 names I think no one would wish to meet on a dark night without an army behind them.
- Kaine Australis, musing on a list that included Romi
Beginning her training under Veiere, and culminating with her ascension to Jedi Master, Jade continually proves her reputation as an accomplished lightsaber duelist. She learned theory first as her Master was a scholar before anything. However, a very quick study, her more casual and unorthodox approach allowed her to distinguish herself as a skilled duelist later down the line. Having bred and mastered her own hybrid form that includes the straightforward tactics of Shien, combined with the graceful, powerful, and energetic acrobatics of Ataru, and leveled out with the deceptive maneuvers of Trakata. She's also began to learn the basics of Vaapad, studying the lessons legendary Jedi Master Darron Wraith left behind. Jade has and continues to carve her way into the upper echelons of some of the greatest fighters -- many of which she's gone against.
The way the Jedi wielded her weapon would make the women of Midvinter proud for in Valkyri culture even the women could be great warriors, but what stood before Vili was his greatest challenge to date. His blue eyes taking in her movements, looking for potential flaws. None stood out as of yet, and despite her size the Jedi still possessed a great strength.
- Vili Ozouf
She was much stronger, both mentally and physically, than he had expected. The dark side granted her unnatural energy. His expression grew solemn. He barely had any time to recover from the sudden departure of his opponent.
- Rhane Varless
Good fighter—both with her fists and with her words.
- Cotan Sar'andor
She's got the nicest backside in the galaxy, she's one of the greatest duelist in the galaxy, and she saved my life
- Vaulkhar
He had fought against her in training, and later in live combat during her greatest of personal trials. Veiere understood her skill, her practice both in the Force and in the arts of the lightsaber had nearly ended his life once
- Veiere Arenais
Romi is a combatant that has the athleticism and endurance to outlast most people, forgoing the use of the force at all. She's tanked blaster wounds to the back and has stonewalled shards of rock and stone launched at her via the force. She's been on the front lines, going toe to toe with both Sith and Mandalorians while fighting a disease — she took on two Sith Lords, a Mandalorian A'lor, and the Sith Emperor simultaneously for a short amount of time. Romi is the type of opponent that you'd have to physically fight down in order to beat. Jade was also trained in espionage and infiltration by Alliance operatives which helped maximize her already natural aptitude for quickly analyzing situations for dangers and traps and then formulating a means to secure her objectives. Those skills alone made her highly useful and sought out by many factions, the Jedi and the Sith included.
Without warning, the pipeline above him shrieked loudly as the metal distorted and broke away spilling out in front of his path, fortunately missing him though provided enough of a distraction for Romi Jade to get the drop on him. She had appeared out of nowhere with such speed.
- Veiere Arenais
The Sith didn't want help with Master Jade? Cocky or confident?
- Kian Karr
He could see a orange lightsaber cutting into the skin and muscles of the being. A blur of a female happened to be holding it. I could only assume it to be Romi with my vision fading back and forth from being a mass of blurs, and clear concise vision.
- Kaleleon Seleare
He could never hope to block the wave of blaster bolts coming in their direction like his master was. It’d be suicide, frankly.
- Cassius Droma
If it weren't for Romi Jade, a lot less troopers in his platoon would be alive right now.
- Sol Stazi
A solid saber combatant, she was also trained in unarmed combat by Morgukai warriors, who were renown Jedi killers. Trained in their own form of martial arts, she's learned principles based in breaking the condition of the body losing equilibrium, and breaking her opponents to make them vulnerable. She's been trained to maintain her own personal balance and to destroy an opponents before putting them in positions where they can easily be dispatched. She's become keen on using her entire body in any way to bolster her fighting style whether it's with larger or smaller opponents. Sol Stazi dubbed her the
Queen of Air & Darkness, recognizing her as a powerful trump card waiting to be played -- she's fast, she's observant, she dominates, and she perseveres.
The Force...
Romi was his childhood friend, a woman with whom he shared the kinship of youthful memories. Furthermore, she was a Jedi Knight, and one he had often considered far more skilled than himself.
- Cedric Grayson
He felt her body against his and the way the Force moved around her, through her, and around them. He felt like having her nearby could strengthen him. That was a feeling.
- Coren Starchaser
I also don't doubt your teaching ability, I mean -- your powers are beyond the entire New Jedi Order.
- Auteme
She'll humbly muse about being a moderate Force-user at best, placing somewhere in the middle for someone of her rank. However, her peers and Master have constantly noted her strength in the Force, regarding her as some sort of prodigy. She rose to Knighthood at a much faster rate than any one of her peers and was even made Grandmaster in place of the previous one over any other candidates. Accomplishing those feats at her rank is a testament to her potential. Like many other Force-sensitives she possess many basic applications that are generally understood and used across the board. Extremely crafty, she's able to make use of her abilities in unconventional ways. She has an extremely powerful Force persuasion, being able to enhance her voice and exert influence. Her skill in this area is enough to where she can easily affect the minds of some species with highly organized mental facilities with time and extreme effort.
...a terrible scream erupted from the woman, enhanced by the Force. She was pushed back from where she had been, the tables and chairs around them getting blown away to fall into the city or sea. Such power, even unconscious.
- Taeli Raaf
His former apprentice having broken through his mental defense with astonishing ease in her moment of desperation; the power that she could summon when everything was put on the line and nothing was restrained by her former doubts and insecurities of the past.
- Veiere Arenais
And just like that, Morbus felt his mind being assaulted. The pain that passed through his consciousness was excruciating, as though he was being torn apart by thousands of beasts, ripped to shreds and scattered on an open flame. It literally knocked the sense out of the Sith, as his yellow eyes lolled back into his head, his tongue hanging from his gaping mouth. Morbus almost toppled to the floor, were it not for the braced position he had been in.
- Darth Morbus, experiencing Romi's mental assault
She'd never actually met Romi Jade, but the name was one that she knew from the archives, from the stories told. Once a grandmaster, a paragon of the light who had fallen to the darkside and clawed her way back to the light. It was a harrowing journey, one that took a massive amount of personal willpower to pull off.
- Asaraa Vaashe
Her mental abilities are such that she was able to
Force meld over 10 plus Force-sensitives and maintain the link while in the midst of a duel and while the temple was collapsing around her. She demonstrated this ability again when she melded a group of Jedi together in order to erect a
Force shield large enough to save her allies from orbital bombardment. On numerous occasions she's demonstrated the ability to break through someones mental barriers with relative ease, somethings she'd done to both a Jedi Master and Sith Lord. Her natural talents for melding eventually grew into
Battle Meditation; she's employed the ability to break through illusions in the invasion of Pantora, and used it to effectively turn the tides during the battle of Balmorra. Notably, it was the ability she used to break herself free from the darkside and Sith sorcery used to enslave her -- she accomplished this by effectively pulling the dark side
itself away from her being.
Saying that Romi wasn't a master of her craft, would bring a distaste to one's mouth. I didn't know of how she could perform such feats.
- Kaleleon Seleare
Romi had demonstrated envious athletics and what looked to Amon as the Force to subdue completely the near-immortal Gen'dai.
- Amon Vizsla
He saw the battlefield with clarity he didn't know existed. His eyes flicked from display to display and ship to ship, the fatigue he'd expected to set in a long time ago still vacant from his mind, the storm never rolling in. Since their first loss they hadn't lost any other capital ships and fighters were performing far above expected levels of efficiency in the field. His eyes fell on the Jedi Knight and he wondered if this was her doing.
- Dracken Pryce
...she let out a fething Force Scream strong enough to crack the earth. Dax almost missed it, almost didn't react till it was too late. But he felt the Force shift, and the Dark nature it promised. The Rogue turned and Force Pushed those nearest, Yula and Cotan among them, away from the immediate range of the attack. Unfortunately, that left his own defenses weakened. Although the meager barrier of the Force took the brunt of Romi's attack, he still felt its impact, knocking him onto the ground, and leaving his ears ringing terribly.
- Dax Fyre
Her magnitude in the Force alone is such that she was able to go three years of keeping the Sith poison pumping through her veins from corrupting her or interfering with her positions on the battlefield. It wasn't until she was caught unaware by sorcery that she would succumb to the poisons effects. She was trained by the Bendu on Eadu, a Force sensitive entity who claimed to represent the center of the Force, learning the basics of Bendu warding and how to be
empty. She'd also been trained in very ominous abilities as well during her time as a Shadow Hand, Taeli Raaf instructed her in how to deaden her body to pain and in some sorcery -- which she only vaguely has an understanding of really; at the most she'll be able to identify it. She'd even been trained to
channel the force in withering blasts of light by Veiere Arenais and Coren Starchaser, combining the ability with her battle meditation to produce the unique effect of combating a dark siders use of the Force by
pulling the users' powers away from them, essentially weakening their grasp on, or cutting them off from the Force; she employed this during the battle of Bimmissari when she dueled the Sith Emperor, Darth Carnifex. She learned to
share and recall memories from Master Quill, and how to
allow others to draw upon her force energy, no matter the distance, from the
Golden Sun. But, one unique ability she is noted for is her power to amplify her voice to produce an highly pitched
sonic scream capable of damaging and stunning her opponents. She has demonstrated maximum control to where she can play with pitch and power. She's almost made several people deaf, ripped off and launched previously attached public scenery into the ocean on Dac, and has reformed the ability to make use of echolocation to snuff out assassins.
