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One of the original [[Tanith]] members of the First and Only, Merrt signed up when Tanith was called on to raise its first [[Imperial Guard Regiment]]s for the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]]. He was regarded as having a good aim, but was not originally one of the regiment's designated [[Imperial Guard Sniper|snipers]] due to the fact that enough snipers had already been recruited by the time he joined. Notably Merrt considered himself a better shot than even the regiment's foremost sniper, [[Hlaine Larkin|Larkin]], believing that Larkin had been chosen as the last sniper over himself due to both Larkin's mental disposition rendering him unsuitable for line infantry work and Larkin's friend [[Colm Corbec|Corbec]] pulling some strings, although Merrt admitted that he had a smart mouth that would probably get him in trouble.{{Fn|1}}
By the time of the Tanith First's deployment on [[Caligula (Hive World)|Caligula]], Merrt's skills had been recognised and he was considered one of Corbec's favoured [[sharpshooter]]s. While on Caligula, he was part of a Tanith detachment assigned to escort a supply convoy from [[Aurelian Hive]] to [[Hive Calphernia]], manning the [[Autocannon|guns]] of an outrider driven by [[Trooper]] [[Kelve]]. When the convoy was attacked by bandits, their outrider was destroyed and Merrt was forced to mercy-kill Kelve after the latter was impaled by the wreckage. Despite this, Merrt performed well in the subsequent battle, managing to snipe a number of bandits before they could launch a [[missile]] salvo at the Tanith positions.{{Fn|2a}}
Later on [[Monthax]], Merrt was attached to the regiment's [[Imperial Guard Platoon|Second Platoon]] under [[Colonel]] [[Colm Corbec|Corbec]]. He was severely wounded when a [[Chaos Cultist]] shot him in the jaw with a [[lasgun]]{{Fn|2b}} but survived.{{Fn|3}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Of Their Lives in the Ruins of Their Cities (Short Story)]] — [[The Founding (Omnibus)]]
*2: [[Ghostmaker (Novel)]] — [[The Founding (Omnibus)]]:
**{{Endn|2a}}: Chapter Six
**{{Endn|2b}}: Chapter Eleven
