Aegis Complex

Army building

Not built directly

Aegis Complex is an army building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 2,500 Alloys, 500 Volatile Motes and takes 600 days to build, with an upkeep of 7 Alloys, 30 Energy Credits, 5 Volatile Motes a month. It adds Soldiers, Battle Thralls, Knights and Warrior Drones jobs, depending on the empire.

Cost: 2,500Alloys500Volatile Motes
Upkeep: 7Alloys30Energy Credits5Volatile Motes
Build time: 600 days
Housing: —
ID: building_fe_stronghold

Jobs Aegis Complex adds

Jobs come from the building's job modifiers; 4.x counts jobs in hundreds (a district adds 100). Variants for other kinds of empires are listed with their condition.

600 Soldiers
Not: Gestalt Consciousness; none of: Has knights zone; none of: Modifier: Thral…
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- None of
  - Has knights zone
  - Modifier: Thrall-World
600 Battle Thralls
Not: Gestalt Consciousness; Not: Has knights zone; Modifier: Thrall-World
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- Not: Has knights zone
- Modifier: Thrall-World
300 Knights
Not: Gestalt Consciousness; Has knights zone; Not: Modifier: Thrall-World
- Owner
  - Not: Gestalt Consciousness
- Has knights zone
- Not: Modifier: Thrall-World
600 Warrior Drones
Gestalt Consciousness
- Owner
  - Gestalt Consciousness

Cost, upkeep and output

Base values from the building's resources block; conditional variants (nomadic empires pay other resources, for example) open with their condition.

Cost: 2,500Alloys500Volatile Motes
400Biomass — Wilderness empire
Owner
Wilderness empire
Upkeep a month: 7Alloys30Energy Credits5Volatile Motes

What Aegis Complex does

On the planet

-10%Orbital Bombardment Damage

Only in some cases

- +50%Soldiers Automated Workforce
- +50%Warrior Drones Automated Workforce
when…
- Owner
  - Not: Wilderness empire
  - Not: Virtuality
- +3%Infrastructure Build Speed
- +3%Decision Enactment Speed
when…
- Owner
  - Wilderness empire
  - Tradition: Purity Traditions Finished

Upgrade chain

upgrades = { } in the files: each building upgrades to the next.

How to unlock Aegis Complex

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Any of
  - Fallen Empire
  - Technology: Aegis Complex
  - Country flag: fe_fortress_can_build
None of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony

Can be built when (allow)

Requires schematics acquired from Arcane Deciphering
We have renounced our Cosmogenesis ambitions.

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Never (switched off)

In the game

This monumental planetary defense complex protects with countless armories and shielding; the planet's mountains will crumble before its defenses.

ID

building_fe_stronghold

Aegis Complex: questions

How much does Aegis Complex cost in Stellaris?

2,500 Alloys, 500 Volatile Motes, 600 days to build; upkeep 7 Alloys, 30 Energy Credits, 5 Volatile Motes a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Aegis Complex give?

Depending on the empire: Soldiers, Battle Thralls, Knights and Warrior Drones.

What does Aegis Complex upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Aspis Bastion.

What is the ID of Aegis Complex?

building_fe_stronghold (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/13_fallen_empire_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.