Phased Capacity Buildout

An installation can add Aegis units in steps as its mission grows and as the design and fuel supply mature.

Grow in unit-sized steps

Aegis capacity is added one unit at a time. An installation can begin with the units it needs today and add more as mission demand rises, without redesigning the microgrid. Each added unit improves both total capacity and the redundancy ratio, so continuity strengthens as the site grows.

Sequencing with the program

Buildout is paced by the program timeline: a test burner around 2032 proves the design; commercial units follow around 2036. Early deployments are therefore small, and larger fleets come as the design matures and as the helium-3 supply chain — breeder-bred and, later, lunar — scales to support them.

• Add capacity in unit-sized increments
• Redundancy ratio improves with each added unit
• Microgrid designed once to accept future units
• Pace set by design maturity and fuel supply

The fuel-scale gate on growth

Fleet growth is bounded by fuel: one commercial unit's helium-3 demand is roughly 400× today's domestic supply, so the rate at which installations can add units is tied to the breeder foundry's output and the lunar pathway. Phasing is honest about this — capacity grows with supply, not ahead of it.

Buildout is a trajectory constrained by physics and supply: capacity grows in unit-sized steps, each step improving the redundancy ratio, at a pace set by design maturity and by how fast the breeder foundry and the lunar pathway can supply helium-3. Designing the microgrid once to accept future units avoids a disruptive site-wide redesign later, and means each installation can track its own mission growth by adding machines rather than rebuilding its distribution.