The Massive Expansion of AEGIS

As the war with VRAXIS kicked off AEGIS was given a baptism by fire into the wasteland. Before the war AEGIS largely kept to itself as they felt no need to project themselves onto the inhabitants of the wasteland, however, as VRAXIS came around it became apparent that it was imperative to the safety of the Last City to raise an army capable of repelling them in the wasteland. AEGIS would go from a few elite patrol squads to an entire army within weeks, obviously such a massive expansion gave way to corruption and infighting, so much so that it defined a period of AEGIS history.
== Infighting and Corruption ==
Some say interservice rivalries are to be expected, however as all of these divisions were made from thin air there was an intense rivalry over who gets what funding. It didn’t help that the Chairman had almost total control of AEGIS, causing the divisions to spend more time attempting to please the Chairman than actually preparing for combat. There was also a question of who controls who, would divisionals be held under the same rules as a normal AEGIS soldier, would they be able to issue orders to their fellow divisionals, how was it all going to work? This is where the infighting gets much more unpleasant. Nobody was willing to give up any ground on this, it was rather comical, MDF wanted to have the ability to issue orders to all divisions for “Combat purposes!” and it was a general theme to make up any reason you could to have authority over other divisions. The only exceptions to this level of infighting was ARD and AIA, ARD being established long before this was unphased, and AIA having not even fully been created yet was still dragging in intelligence officers from the Last City. Ultimately SC would gain the ability to issue orders to any and all divisionals, however as a compromise to prevent a feared open revolt because of this decision there were plenty of intricate rules made in order to limit SC’s control over other divisionals. With all this said and done however the infighting was still not over, the UOC of MDF attempted a coup to take control of the corporation, leading to the Board of Directors taking over. After the coup everyone was whipped into shape and forced to do their jobs correctly, that being said at first combat cohesion was so bad that divisional combative squads fared worse than their divisionless counterparts, however over time as more corruption and rot was purged combat effectiveness increased.
== Espionage ==
Up to this point the duties of seeking out corruption and protecting the corporation from internal espionage fell to SC, however that would soon change. When VRAXIS accelerated their push towards the border it was believed that even with VRAXIS’ manpower advantage, they would be unable to penetrate the AEGIS field fortifications. To everyone’s astonishment, the divisionals guarding the fortifications were on VRAXIS’ paycheck and surrendered to them immediately. This exposed a brutal hole in the internal and external security of the company, hence the official forming of the AEGIS Intelligence Agency. AEGIS has always had it’s intelligence experts gathering information from the shadows and manipulating the stock market to their favor, but it was ultimately small until now where it would finally be expanded. Needless to say, just like ARD, with pre-existing professionals running the division, expansion brought way to no corruption in the agency, and if it did it was quickly purged. Through extensive efforts divisional corruption was mostly purged and AIA earned a reputation of being ruthless, even if nobody outside of the Agency had ever seen them in action. It is unknown how those interviewed by AIA do not remember the experience, however despite not remembering it, some are still left mentally scarred. The Chairman as a way to ensure he was safe instituted one last system to make sure the various divisions of AEGIS are suited for operation: The Divisional Checkups. Relatively simple and elegant solution, which also gave a vent for divisional tension as they competed in a less… explosive manner.
== Resolution ==
The joint efforts of AIA and the passing of time helped create the effective and elite fighting forces that would push back VRAXIS and ultimately cause its collapse. With the removal of corruption throughout AEGIS the era of bureaucratic expansion ended, and no such expansion has needed to take place again since, rest assured however if one were to take place, such corruption would find no safe haven within a modern AEGIS.