Halo: Ares Saga

==Background==
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Above Earth, two great ships shall meet in battle. And at Ares, they shall meet their fates...
The UNSC warship Aeneas has spent the last year at Minorca, one of the largest battles of the war and one of the few victories the UNSC has enjoyed. Battered and battle-scarred, the sailors and Marines must now deal with the knowledge that the UNSC's stronghold, Reach, is gone, invaded and glassed by the Covenant - and that Earth will be next. Its defence will be a futile gesture - against the might that the Covenant can send against it, its defenders have little hope. But if humanity must go out, then it shall be with a bang, not a whimper.
The Bringer of Holy Light carries with it the hopes of the Covenant - Fleet Master Zuro Dun 'Xoramee; the San'Shyuum Minister of Acquisition; and the Jiralhanae Chieftain Erebus. Their mission is to uncover the greatest relic the Great Ones ever built, and to claim it in the name of the Covenant and the Great Journey. But nothing is as it seems, and underneath manipulation and secrets the decades-long machinations of the Prophets shall come to fruition.
Ares lies forlorn and forgotten, drifting through space distant from Earth, a bygone relic of a more glorious time in human history. It now drifts in space, abandoned...but not entirely empty. An ancient terror awaits a glorious awakening beneath its surface, straining against the chains that bind it to its prison and sanctum. Its guardians, eternally watchful, have stood by and done nothing for millenia, but soon they too must awaken from their eternal slumber and take up arms. And events come to a head, the Labyrinth shall be revealed...
==Table of Contents==
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==Dramatis Persona==
===UNSC===
* Sergeant Grant Wallace
* Corporal Amanda Vasquez
* Captain Jonathan Stanley
* Colonel Verdani Forrester
* Major Matthew Howard
* Glaurung
===Covenant===
* Fleet Master Zuro Dun 'Xoramee
* Field Master Tulo 'Kotarqee
* Special Operations Commander Qur'a 'Morhekee
* Minister of Acquisition
* Alpha Chieftain Erebus
* Minor Cacap