SDS Ares Vallis

The SDS Ares Vallis is a Settlement Defense Front carrier in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare under the command of captain Bradley Fillion. During Operation Port Armor, the warship was boarded by Nick Reyes and his team who successfully disabled its weapons systems, and killed its bridge crew, rendering it vulnerable to the UNSA destroyer Tigris. Reyes and his team escaped through the cargo bay into Jackals and fled as the Tigris destroyed the helpless carrier before it could jump away. While on the ship, Ethan was able to download data from the Vallis that allowed Reyes to track other SetDef ships.
== Gallery ==
AresVallis_ShipAssault_IW.jpg|The Ares Vallis prior to the release of the game.
AresVallis_ShipAssault2_IW.jpg|The Ares Vallis prior to the release of the game.
SDF Carrier model concept IW.jpg
== Trivia ==
* is an outflow channel on the planet Mars.
*The Alpha version of the Ares uses the model of an SDF Destroyer. In the final game it uses the model of an SDF Carrier.
**Strangely, the mission objective still identifies it as a destroyer and its model in the mission briefing is also that of a destroyer. Furthermore, SDF troops who talk about the Vallis later in the game also refer to it as a destroyer.
*During Operation Deep Execute, several SDF soldiers can be overheard discussing the destruction of the Vallis. It would appear that the SDF leadership has been disseminating false reports amongst the rank-and-file to cover up the fact that the carrier was destroyed by a small infiltration team, as SDF troopers seem to believe that the carrier successfully fought in operations on Luna, only to suffer a weapons malfunction, which prevented it from defending itself and thus it was subsequently destroyed. However another explanation also given to the enlisted men was that the Vallis survived the battle on Luna but later discovered an old Earth exploratory probe (apparently over 200 years old, though this account is entirely SDF propaganda) that was transmitting on an open channel. The Vallis is alleged to have taken the probe on board and discovered it was broadcasting music, speeches of liberty and historical accounts, as well as scientific discoveries. This was then, apparently without authorisation, broadcast to the whole of the ship's crew, causing a mutiny amongst the troops. The mutiny was stopped and agitators and officers responsible for failing to prevent it were to be handed over from the carrier to be executed. However, the ship never arrived at the assigned location, leading SDF troops to believe it defected.
**Despite this, two soldiers seem to have heard rumours of the true explanation behind the Vallis' defeat and express shock that Nick Reyes and his SCAR team were able to pull the operation off, convinced that such a tactic wasn't viable. Despite doubting such an explanation is true, they quickly reassure themselves that if it was, then the SDF High Council will take steps to prevent such a thing from happening again and that the SCAR team responsible was probably led by an unusually competent soldier, unrepresentative of his comrades or SATO forces in general.
Category:Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Settlement Defense Front Warships