Aegis (disambiguation)

In Greek mythology, aegis is the shield used by the Greek god Zeus.

Aegis may also refer to:

Organisations

• AEGIS (research network), the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, a network of African studies centres in Europe
• Aegis Trust, founded in 2000, is the leading British NGO which campaigns to prevent genocide worldwide.
• Association for the Education and Guardianship of International Students, UK

Corporations

• Aegis Group, a British company that performs media research, planning and buying
• Aegis Defence Services, a British-based security services company
• AEGIS London, a Lloyd's of London syndicate
• AEGIS association, a French organisation specialised in geopolitics and international relations

Computing

• Aegis (management software), a change management system used for software development
• AEGIS SecureConnect, a network authentication system popular in IEEE 802.1X networks
• AEGIS (operating system), the original Apollo Computer operating system
• AEGIS (Ragnarok Online), the software used to run the official servers for the Ragnarok Online computer game
• Aegis (window manager), a window manager for the X Window System

Geography

• Aigis (Dacia) (Aizis), a Dacian town and later Roman castrum in Dacia

Media

Comics and animation

• Aegis (comics), a superhero who first appeared in Marvel Comics' New Warriors series
• Aegis (Lady of All Sorrows), a female cosmic being in the Marvel universe who appears in The Fantastic Four and The Silver Surfer among other titles
• GAT-X303 Aegis Gundam, a prominent Gundam mecha in the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series
• A.E.G.I.S., a fictional organisation in the anime Gate Keepers that combats threats from an invading species
• The DC character Steel (John Henry Irons) wore the Entropy Aegis armor during the Our Worlds at War miniseries

Music

• Aégis, an album by the Norwegian band Theatre of Tragedy
• Aegis, a pop music group from the Philippines

Publications

• The Aegis, a weekly newspaper based in Harford County, Maryland
• The Aegis, the annual yearbook for Dartmouth College
• Aegis, the school paper of the Praedinius Gymnasium in Groningen.

Video games

• Aegis Wing, a shooter game that can be downloaded from the Xbox Live Arcade store
• AEGIS: Guardian of the Fleet, a 1994 DOS game simulating the command of a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser
• Aegis/Aigis, an android in the role-playing game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
• The shield wielded by Gallantmon in the Digimon series
• GAT-X303 Aegis, piloted by Athrun Zala in the fictional game Mobile Suit Gundam Seed
• Aegis is a cheat code in Age of Empires II that makes villagers build instantly
• Aegis of the Immortal, a shield wielded by Roshan the Immortal in Defence of the Ancients
• Aegis of the Legion, an equippable item in the computer game League of Legends
• In Star Trek Online, Aegis is a craftable set item group granting adaptive shielding and a thoron distortion field along with high shield capacity, auxiliary boosting, and higher speed
• Aegis VII is the planet that Isaac Clarke visits in Dead Space
• Vanessa Z. Schneider, the main character of P.N.03 wears and uses the Aegis suit to fight her robotic enemies

Literature

• Aegis, the shield of Thalia Grace in Rick Riordan's 2007 novel The Titan's Curse

Medicine

• AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGIS), a database of AIDS information

Military technology

• Aegis Combat System, a missile guidance & combat system that was originally used by the United States Navy
• Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, an American-made missile defense system based on Aegis Combat System
• Kimber Aegis, a model 1911 handgun made by the Kimber Manufacturing company

Products

• LG Aegis, a mobile phone from LG Electronics

Role-playing games

• AEGIS (Freedom City), a fictional government organisation in the role-playing game Mutants & Masterminds
• AEGIS, a fictional government organisation in the role-playing game Conspiracy X that monitors extraterrestrial and supernatural activity

Science

• AEGIS (astronomy), the All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey
• AEGIS (particle physics), the Antimatter Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy