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Back again: with a spot of fluff (the undetailed version):
The Ares Guard are believed a late-founding chapter, originally named Achaean Guard. Their founding world, Halicarnassos, was destroyed in the Scyrian incident, believed by the Inquisition to have been caused by the Demiurg. The Chapter Master, four companies and all the chapter's planet-based facilities were lost. After vainly searching for survivors, and for the cause of the incident, the remaining marines gathered near Ultramar, were they were summoned by Marneus Calgar, Master of the Ultramarines. Their captains met Calgar and an Inquisitor, believed to be Xeno Inquisiutor Hermes, on the Ultramarine Battlebarge Ultramar Invicta. The outcome was that a young captain, Nestor, was made chapter master, and the chapter received new colours and a new name - the Ares Guard. Half the chapter vessels departed for an unknown destination; the remainder departed for Mars. The Lords of Terra had decreed that the chapter was to be assigned as guardian of Mars. True to their nature, the secretive Adeptus Mechanicus disapproved of the arrangement, and permission to land on the planet was not granted for centuries. The Marines Communications between the marines, stationed on their ships close to the asteroid Ida, and the Adeptus Mechanicus were limited to functional traffic, and it was only through the diplomacy of Nestor that the tense situation never flared into open agression. The Necron raid on Mars altered matters, as the Ares Guard were involved in the destruction of the Shroud class raiders. Coincidentially, this preceded the arrival of an Adeptus Mechanicus Fleet at Mars which had been attacked by Necron raiders. An fortuitious intervention by the Battlebarge Bellerophon, one of the Ares Guard ships not allocated to Mars, saved the valuable transports and their cargo. Although a faction of the Adeptus Mechanicus view the intervention of the Bellerophon as a suspicious coincidence, the Ares Guard were at last welcomed on Mars.
Regrettably, Nestor had been severly injured in the Shroud action. Lacking available dreadnoughts and facilities, the Guard feared they would be leaderless again, but the Adeptus Mechanicus offered their services and implanted Nestor in an antique dreadnought, from which he serves as chapter master still, aided by his second in command Aias. With the help of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Ares Guard began to rearm. The dispersed ships were recalled, reoutfitted, and dispatcehd again on missions, sometiomes alone, sometimes alongside the Adeptus Mechanicus.
That's it. Sorry for the wordiness.
Cheers.
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Back from oblivion (again)?
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Keep it up!
I guess I'm now committed to the Ares Guard... 