Merra was a female human who hailed from the planet of Akiva. In the final months of the Galactic Civil War, her mother, Senator Pima Drolley, served as the representative for their homeworld in the Galactic Senate of the New Republic. She also had a brother, named Dann.
Chuck Wendig penned the 2017 novel Aftermath: Empire's End, in which Merra made her debut appearance.