Augments

Plug-and-play power. Overclocked strikes. Drones, plates, and hacks that bend the rules.

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Faction Identity

Augments excel at **mid-fight customization** and **tempo spikes**. Parts and drones create the exact line you need, while hacks and plating deny counterplay. If they stall you, **fabricate**. If they race you, **overclock**.

Play this faction if…

You love **toolboxing** and building combos from modular parts.
You enjoy **tempo spikes**: overclock now, stabilize later.
You’re okay with **risk/reward mechanics** like heat, jank, and self-damage to gain advantage.

Overview

Bolt on what you need, when you need it. **Modular upgrades** and **drones** let you pivot between offense and defense seamlessly. **Overclock** for explosive turns, then **repair** or **recycle** to keep the engine humming.

Weaknesses: purge effects that strip attachments, hard silence on heroes, and heat/exhaustion management failures.

Main Mechanics

Modular Upgrades
Attach, swap, and stack parts for tailored statlines and abilities.
Overclock / Heat
Short bursts of power with overheating or wear as a drawback.
Plating & Wards
Temporary shields, armor pips, and repair loops to negate chip damage.
Drones
Disposable units for strike, guard, salvage, or copy actions.
Hack/Disrupt
Jam enemy triggers, drain resources, or pacify key threats.
Fabricate
Convert cards/resources into parts, chests, or temporary constructs.

Clans of the Augments

Ranger

Lean, mobile ops—tactical exos and field rigs.

Skirmish frames with grapples, camo plates, and multi-tool kits. Rangers win by precision: pick a lane, overclock, and extract before the crack-back.

Signature Mechanics

Overclocked strikes with safe disengage
Utility modules (grapple, cloak, stim) to control trades
Hack/mark targets to set up drone finishes

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Gear Knight

Heavily plated vanguards with modular arms.

Walking bastions that slot weapon arms and shield rigs. They stabilize boards, then pivot to crushing power turns when the build comes online.

Signature Mechanics

Plating/armor pips and taunts to anchor lines
Swap weapon modules mid-game for the right matchup
Repair loops and on-block value

Sample Cards

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Cipher Syndicate

Ghost code, black ice, and soft-kills.

Hackers who win without fair fights. Drain, jam, and reroute enemy actions while spawning glitch-drones that detonate at the worst time—for them.

Signature Mechanics

Hack/Disrupt: silence, tax, or delay enemy triggers
Data siphons: resource theft and hand peeks
Glitch drones: on-defeat bombs and denial zones

Sample Cards

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Rustborn

Scrap alchemists—jury-rig, recycle, rebirth.

Patchwork cyborgs that thrive on entropy. They melt junk into miracle turns: sacrifice parts, spawn drones, and reforge the wreckage into something meaner.

Signature Mechanics

Sacrifice parts to fabricate bigger payoffs
Graveyard/recycle synergies for engines
Heat-as-currency: take damage to print value

Sample Cards

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Story Spotlight — “Heat Sink, Cold Blood”

Vox checked the coolant lines once, then twice. “Green,” he said. Nullbyte smiled behind mirrored glass, fingers dancing on a slate as enemy comms turned to static. Downrange, a Gear Knight locked plates with a hiss and took the lane.

Redline overclocked and hit like a meteor—systems screaming, targets silent. Spectre ghosted through a side hatch, dropping a glitch-drone that armed on a heartbeat and detonated on a scream. The board was theirs before the heat faded.

“Cycle,” Vox said. Plates reset. Drones rebuilt. The Syndicate’s code crawled back into the dark, and the desert wind forgot their names.

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