Editing Sanra Mercer (Individual Sovetskii Soyuz-class WarShip)

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As of [[3061]], the ''[[Sovetskii Soyuz (WarShip class)|Sovetskii Soyuz]]''-class heavy cruiser CSV '''''Sanra Mercer''''' was a [[WarShip]] serving within the [[Clan Steel Viper]] [[Clan Steel Viper Touman|''touman'']].<ref name="FM:WCp138+">''Field Manual: Warden Clans'', pp. 138–139: "Naval Assets"</ref>

==History==
''Sanra Mercer'' was one of the Steel Viper ships badly damaged in October [[3065]] while covering the withdrawal of Steel Viper forces from [[Lum]] after a series of bloody [[Trial of Possession|Trials of Possession]] that had been fought between the Steel vipers and [[Clan Snow Raven]], Trials that only stopped when [[Clan Jade Falcon]] began looking to opportunistically launch trials against the Steel Vipers for their recent acquisitions.<ref name="WORp21">''The Wars of Reaving'', p. 21: "Rising Viper"</ref>

In the wake of the call to Reave all of the [[Bloodname]]s associated with the Invader clans issued by [[ilKhan]] [[Brett Andrews]] in December [[3071]], the site of various [[Blood Chapel]]s on [[Strana Mechty]]—including the Kerensky Blood Chapel—became the site of a sprawling fratricidal conflict between all of the [[Clan]]s. The fighting in and around the Blood Chapels ranged into the city of Katyusha as various Clans fought each other, with the conflict escalating steadily after the destruction of the Kerensky and Winson Blood Chapels. The peak of the conflict came when forces from [[Clan Fire Mandrill]] fared badly when attempting to seize the McKenna and Clearwater Blood Chapels, resulting in [[Star Colonel]] [[Abraxas Mick]] of the Fire Mandrills ordering the ''[[Potemkin]]''-class cruiser [[Jungle Heat|CFM ''Jungle Heat'']] to destroy the Chapels by orbital bombardment.<ref name="WoRp81+">''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 80–81: "The Wolf At The Door"</ref>

The resulting orbital bombardment razed both Blood Chapels as well as the Ben-Shimon Blood Chapel, and as a side effect destroyed a [[Binary]] of [[Clan Star Adder]] forces and set several fires  burning in Katyusha. The Star Adders and [[Clan Goliath Scorpion]] were outraged by the Fire Mandrill's actions, but it was the ''Sanra Mercer'' and the ''[[Carrack]]''-class transport [[Solar Blaze|CCS ''Solar Blaze'']] that Reaved the ''Jungle Heat'', destroying it completely.<ref name="WoRp81+"/>

In November [[3073]] the ''Sanra Mercer'' joined a task force being assembled by ilKhan Andrews to deal with the [[Society]] and [[Bandit Caste]] problems affecting numerous Steel Viper holdings during the widespread [[HPG]] blackout across the [[Clan Homeworlds]]. Joining the massive ''[[Leviathan Prime]]''-class battleship [[Perigard Zalman (Leviathan)|CSV ''Perigard Zalman'']] as well as the ''[[Essex]]''-class destroyer [[Martial Legacy|CSV ''Martial Legacy'']] and the ''[[Lola III]]''-class destroyer [[Anaconda|CSV ''Anaconda'']], the ''Sanra Mercer'' and the other vessels provided transport and support for an assembled ground force consisting of the entire of [[Alpha Galaxy (Clan Steel Viper)|Alpha]], [[Beta Galaxy (Clan Steel Viper)|Beta]] and [[Delta Galaxy (Clan Steel Viper)|Delta Galxies]].<ref name="WORp46+">''The Wars of Reaving'', pp. 46–47: "Infestation"</ref>

The task force was responsible for relieving the besieged Steel Viper enclave at Station Zebra on [[Grant's Station]]; the other enclaves on the world had been conquered by Bandit forces in a campaign launched by the bandits in January [[3072]]. The ''Anaconda'' and the other vessels in the task force provided support during the ground campaign and subsequent investigation, only to then find themselves having to support internal Reavings when a mysterious plague swept through the population on the planet, including some of the warriors who had fought or been stationed on Grant's Station.<ref name="WORp46+"/>

There is no record of the ''Sanra Mercer'' having survived the [[Wars of Reaving]] and the [[Trial of Annihilation|annihilation]] of Clan Steel Viper in December [[3075]].

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Field Manual: Warden Clans]]''
* ''[[The Wars of Reaving]]''

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