Ariel Ventris

Ariel Ventris is the Sister Superior Dominar of the 12th Preceptory of the Convent of the Blue Rose otherwise known as the Ultramarines. Ariel is the direct granddaughter of Lucienne Ventris whom had sacrificed her life on Ophelia VII northern polar fortress during the 1st battle of Ophelia VII.

Long and storied Ariel's devotional service to the Empress could fill half a dozen books with tales and seeming legends from the various special missions from Calth to the heart of chaotic space Ariel's challenges and victories led Ariel to become one of the most admired and respected marines within the ranks of the Ultramarines young and eager novices.

Biography
Ariel Marianne Ventris was born on the Human offworld colony of Calth to parents Urion and Carmichael Ventris on Imperial year 39,984. Calth was an small agro colony near the capital world of the Blue Rose convent on Ophelia VII

Ariel was selected into imperial marine service at the tender age of 6 and sent to the central marine training complex on Calth.

Ariel while trained at the Azure Rose convent training center learned all about the delicate arts of war and high impact combat. Also while there Ariel earned many friends and compatriots such as Constintine Parsanius a younger but stronger novice that was training for the position of Retributioner. Ariel's training continued with exceeding continuing high scores until her graduation from Azure Rose Academy on her 20th birthday in 40,004 AD.

History of Imperial Marine Service
Almost immediately from the end of her graduation ceremony Ariel was taken from the only home she had known her entire life to her final training base on the Fortress of Hera on the literal pink ultramarine tinted world of Thracia. For the majority of her natural life Thracia became Ariel's 2nd native homeworld in which within Ariel's memoirs written later in life her most beloved memories of young adulthood took place on Thracia.

Thracia is also the neighboring colony for the Adapta Celestsus, the most elite convent of War Sisters the Imperium had to offer. It was here that Ariel became and was saturated with the greatest of the Sororitas skill and combat abilities the Imperium had to offer.

List of skills learned during Imperial Novice Service
The following is a complete listing of all Combat and Imperial lady skills and protocols learned during Adeptas Sororitas training.
 * Both basic and heavy weapons training
 * Heavy munitions handling and operation (including improvised munitions)
 * Various Hand to Hand technioues and proper Chainsword handling and technique
 * Primary and expert marksmanship (including full combat optics)
 * Basic and Heavy squad tactics
 * Stealth and land navigation
 * Anti Heavy Vehicle warfare
 * Combined Anti Armor Warfare and Tactics

40,007 AD
Ariel is finally promoted from Novice to full War Sister in a 2nd graduation ceremony that is in appearance similar to a wedding ceremony Ariel fully sheds her clothing for the last time and is fitted and installed into a Mark II Spider Heavy suit.

40,012 AD
After several greatly successful heavy anti rebellion campaigns across at least 10 stellar systems Ariel is promoted to the rank of dominion within her promotion ceremony is awarded with twin Hurricane plasma bolt autocannons.

40,013 AD
A Tyranid fleet pod accidentally falls into a interdimensional warp void that leads to alternate sol system fairly similar to 20th century Earth, the Tyranid bio- matter contained inside of the pod escapes perceiving that is still within its home reality. It accidentally infects a young alternate Earth girl named Jennifer White. Jennifer is recombined genetically as a Tyranid Broodmother as the bio-matters way of survival within a reality where it did not know if any other Tyranids even existed.

Ariel is ordered to retrieve the wayward bio-matter from this other reality with a squad of Psyker and Deathwatch sisters safely and with little social or physical or social harm from any Marine or Tyranid influence on this seemingly more primitive world. By the time they arrive Jennifer has already given birth to a small Tyranid hive with its own independent plan of assimilating and bioforming at least a quarter of this Earth's surface in order to make it more co-habitable for both humanity and Tyranids. This had already occurred weeks before they had arrived by several Tyranid bio-drones had already inseminated most of Jennifer's female high school fellow alum. Each of them giving birth to a small squad of beautiful Tyranid Termanatrixes

However the marine squad realizes that this action is against several treaties and conventions of the Codex Passive so they had planned to return the biohive (unfortunately along with now brood mother Jennifer) through a artifically created quantum singularity created by a Immiterium core combi-explosion/implosion.

However unknown to the War Sister squad a manical squad of south african UN commanded mercenaries unit tactical name of MNU (MultiNational United) a black ops group operating outside of most world governments which exist solely for the purpose of collecting, controlling and dissecting multiple forms of known (only to a small few governments) alien technologies including the bio-matter that had infected Jennifer.

What was supposed to be a basic Retrieve/Rescue operation now became a near pitch battle for the survival of both the bio-hive and of the sisters themselves. While these humans appeared to be quite primitive but within their technological level however they had sorely underestimated their implacable foe as due to their research in Xenos tech gave them near Marine heavy level artillery including a arm mounted grenade launcher that acted like a primitive Bolter cannon.

Fortunately they manage (mostly due to the assistance of their fellow Psyker sisters) they were able to achieve victory over their enemy which led to the decision to not only let Jennifer remain but that strict Imperial oversight was needed over these "primitive savages" so the new off world colony of Imperialis IV in orbit over the furthest end of Jupiter. Ariel leaves back to her home reality with many happy goodbyes from new friends.

40,014 AD
Ariel is sent with a squad of Inquitorial Marines to the nearby colony of Antares to aid the colonists mainly a young woman named Justinia Trier to intercept the young Chaos Star named Melancholia.

Justine (as what she is referred to by her friends) unknown even to her own self is a powerful Psyker with far reaching communicative powers, unfortunately Justine also is clinically depressive and her lonely thoughts have accidentally been reaching out across both the galaxy and the veil of reality finally reaching the mind of impressionable Melancholia.

As the sentient stellar body enters the Antares system its sheer immense gravity and its slowly encompassing warp signature field is tearing the nearby neighboring planets apart. A younger Celestial sister both physically and psychically reaches Melancholia to try and reason with the interstellar creature from accidentally impacting with the central Antariean planet, Meanwhile Ariel meats with the local residents and learns that somehow a genomic detail of the Qix will reach planetfall within several hours.

Desperate not to let the genetic manipulations of the Qix reach Antares and gain a foothold within the galaxy Ariel devises a desperate plan to convince Melancholia to join in an uneasy alliance to drive back the Qix invaders. Disobeying all of her commanders orders to not leave Ariel and justine leave Antares and enters Melancholias near geo sychronus orbit. After a heart felt plea by Justine Melancholia agrees to save Justine and the rest of Antares against the Qix.

40,015 AD
During the Incursion of Chaos forces into Thracia Ariel's commanding officer Valeria Ideus is killed by an sub quantum particle cannon energy blast. However Ariel counters that with a hyper loaded plasma bolt mass discharge in the Battle of Bridge Two-Four. Due to this tragic event that Ariel is promoted to Sister Superior of the 12th Preceptory. Ariel is granted Sister Ideus's power blade for her power gauntlet.

40,016 AD
Atter a clever ruse performed by Chaos forces to steal Sister Marine gene seed from one of the central genetics repositories on Ophelia VII, before anyone is sent to investigate Ariel is sent with a self picked squad of seraphim marines to join the Tyranid sister fleet Ophidia to the Agro colony of Tarsis 12 to discover the source of unknown and deeply mysterious warp energy transmissions coming from the near center of the planets stellar system structure on the small behest of the Adepta Celestia.

Upon their arrival they discover what is known in the earliest days of the war against Chaos as a Warp Shard, a large inter dimensionally constructed of what was known as Warp Glass or Crystal a solidified shard of warp quantified energy that is so powerful it acts as a living Warp engine taking its controller to any point in any universe.

Upon reaching the coordinates of the planets sun the warp shard was in near geo syncronious orbit of. They were encountered by the Quo-Shalk squad of Chaos Marines whom were also sent to either asertain or retrieve the shard for their own mysterious purposes.

While it would appear that this chance encounter would surely automatically lead to a instant pitch battle, instead led to more of an uneasy but oddly friendly rivalry between the two factions due to the belief of both groups commanding officers that this believed "Warp Shard" was only just a minor quantum singularity with really no real intrinsic value. Little did either side realize just how wrong this minor assumption would be.

War Fleet Destroyer Southern Goldenhair began receiving bio-scans of human, seeming Tyranid, and some other Xenos life signs that they weren't quite sure what they really were. A small flotilla of Blue Rose drop pods made planetfall on Tarsis 12. Led by Ariel a small tactical recon squad of specialist and some Tyranid recon units they marched across the snow worn planetary surface.

After journeying across far reaching alpine pine warrens for several hours they had received no word or life sign from any Xenos or human creature whatsoever, Upon finally reaching the general area of the impact area of the object that disembarked from the vicinity of the warp shard suddenly the squad was ambushed by another squad of unseen male attackers that with sudden speed cut down the majority of the Tyranid recon units until Ariel with several well placed plasma bolt and EM grenade blasts quickly disabled the marauders.

As Ariel's War Sisters intercepted their foes they were met with a surprise, several male soldiers wearing heavy blue and green armor with thick shoulder pads and hand held weapons similar to their own Bolt pistols