Diane

***Rogue Rifle***

## Appearance

A rogue marksman who defected from her country. She wanders the border lands. Darker skin and hair. Headset. Custom rifle. Tattered poncho. Her art was done after the other commanders and is overall the closest to the final style of A.E.G.I.S.

## Background

Former master marksman of the Empyreal Realm, Diane's loyalties now lie with the civilians impacted by the Five Nations War. A defender of the border dwellers, her shots level the field between those who would conquer and those who would fall.

During her tenure as an Empyreal soldier, she served under Etwal multiple times, and it was his destructive disregard for her and her comrades that led to her defection. Injured and left for dead, she was rescued by bordertown villagers. Diane built her robot, the ARM-777, herself, and now uses it to protect the neutral territories from the Empyre and Allied Provinces alike.

Near the end of the Five Nations War, she forms a tentative allegiance with Ainer after he became separated from the rest of his allies. She criticizes him for getting looped into a war, and warns him that what happened to her will eventually happen to him. When the two are eventually attacked by Ixa and Etwal himself, Diane fights a solo battle against Etwal. He did not recognize who she was. Diane succeeded in felling most of Etwal's forces and nearly killed him, even without any functioning robots. Ainer would join her in the battle's climax soon after, awakening ARK-INFINITY. The duo would ultimately fail to fully defeat Etwal, who was ultimately stopped and kidnapped by his once-ally Ixa.

After the war, Diane has found tentative employment as a high-dollar mercenary, but remains weary of all her clients.

Her sister still is a commander in the Empyreal Realm, and her family is a long line of soldiers.

## Robots and Abilities

Diane is the pilot of ARM-777

Diane’s ARM-777 was created from battlefield wreckage with help from other rebels and borderline villagers. Armed with the 35mm Gepard Buster, it can destroy a robot in one shot.

Her Commander Ability is "**Rogue Decoy**", which allows Diane players to choose a robot under their control to give Retaliate to for the round. This allows the player to deter opponents from striking certain robots and punish them when they do. However, Diane players will have to keep the extra energy in stock to use off their turn.

## Team Building with Diane

Diane is one of eight Commanders who came with a pre-built team in the AEGIS Core Box.

This team is centered around Diane's ARM-777, boosting it and ELL-400's accuracy with SNO and turning them into reliable, high-damage attackers. The team can combine into SNO-6000 and use its stat buffs on those to to make them even more resilient when surrounded by enemies.

## Trivia

* Diane was originally designed to be the "sixth ranger", a neutral gray character to go with the color coded Ainer, Etwal, Gamound, Ixa and Stell. She would instead become one of three neutral commanders after Poppet and Ryos were added to the game, and then became less special once 10 more commanders were added.
* Diane is perhaps the most competent warrior in one-on-one combat, after Etwal.
* Her last name is "Kiir"
* Both her initial concept design and final artwork were based on *Trigun* and *Mad Max.*
* Diane was used by epicimpulse to win the second and third AEGIS online tournaments. As his prize the first time around, he requested that a special variant of her be made, **Rouge Agent Diane**.