AEGIS Season 1

**AEGIS Season 1** encompasses all products from AEGIS's first wave of releases.

## Games

There were two boxes offered on the AEGIS Kickstarter - a Core Box and a Deluxe Box.

### AEGIS Core Box

This is the game box that contains most of AEGIS season 1's gameplay content. It contains 100 robots across five expansions detailed below.

### AEGIS Deluxe Box

The Deluxe box is the same as the Core Box, but includes the Variant Command expansion, along with a special poster box sleeve. On its Kickstarter campaign it was part of the Deluxe tier, which also included the 6-player mat and a PDF of the scenario book.

## Expansions

AEGIS season 1 is divided into six expansions, each containing numerous robots and commanders. All expansions are included in the Core Box, except Variant Command which is in the Deluxe Box, and also sold separately. Arc Buster, Lightning Chaser and Tandem Rogues are made of preconstructed teams, all playable with just their robots. Meanwhile, Stellar Ascent, Kickstart Dawn and Variant Command are made up of supplemental robots.

### Arc Buster

This expansion features 40 robots separated into four preconstructed teams for Ainer, Etwal, Gamound, and Ixa. Each team has seven Basic Level robots, two Duo Level robots and one Trio Level robot. This expansion can thus be played in a four-player game immediately. These four teams are the most basic for new players to learn the game, and focus on some of the game's core play styles.

Story-wise, it introduces some of the primary characters of the Five Nations War, a global arms race where the five factions of Sigaea vie for military supremacy through the use of recently reactivated relic robots.

### Lightning Chaser

This expansion features 20 robots across two preconstructed teams, featuring Stell and Ryos. Like other AEGIS season 1 precons, both teams teams include seven Basic Level robots, two Duo Level robots and one Trio Level robot. This expansion focuses on a long-range strategy vs. an energy drain strategy, introducing new and more complex tactics compared to Arc Buster.

This expansion tells the story of the Sector Authority officer Stell as she hunts for the violent mercenary Ryos, who is responsible for inciting numerous violent battles during the war.

### Tandem Rogues

This expansion features 20 robots across two preconstructed teams, featuring Diane and Poppet. Like other AEGIS season 1 precons, both teams teams include seven Basic Level robots, two Duo Level robots and one Trio Level robot. This expansion focuses on buffs and debuffs vs. robots with multiple activations and area-of-effect attacks, introducing new and more complex tactics compared to previous expansion decks.

This expansion tells the story of the two factionless rogues displaced by the war doing battle and finding their place in the world.

### Stellar Accent

Stellar Ascent features 10 combined robots, including Quadra Level and AEGIS Class robots not included in the previous decks' preconstructed teams. These robots are meant to supplement the team building strategies of players who have learned the game.
In-story, this expansion is about the sudden awakening the ELL-GEL-ION and Stell's subsequent victory and forced-combination with it, resulting in her unlocking the first AEGIS-Class robot, accelerating the Five Nations War to its conclusion.

### Kickstart Dawn

As the name suggests, a lot of the content in this expansion was unlocked and influenced by the game's Kickstarter campaign. It features 10 new commander characters, five of which have robots, while the other five are "Machineless Commanders" - commander cards that can be equipped onto robots. The rest of the cards are more supplemental combines, rounding out any missing combined Classes.

This expansion's story takes place after the Five Nation's War. One part centers on Jurlon and his friends thwarting a scheming businessman and his henchmen, while the Machineless Commanders are characters from around Sigaea destined for grand fates.

### Variant Command

This is the only expansion not automatically included in the Core Box. Instead, it's sold separately, or comes included in the Deluxe Box. This set features entirely Variant cards - robot cards that are mechanically different, but use an existing game piece.

### Promo Cards

Outside of the main game, several promotional cards have been physically produced in limited quantities for organized play, convention appearances and holidays. These cards are all available in the Tabletop Simulator version of the game. They will also be compiled and made widely available in the future.

All promotional cards, save for machineless commanders, are variant robots.

## Accessories

### Season 1 Scenario Book

A companion book for AEGIS Season 1 was released in Summer 2019 and contains game-play content, character lore, and production materials.

The book has 20 game scenarios that go through the Five Nations War and Kickstart Dawn storylines, supplying custom map layouts, teams and special rules.