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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 108. Chapters: Warhammer 40,000 authors, Warhammer 40,000 characters, Warhammer 40,000 comics, Warhammer 40,000 novels, Warhammer 40,000 species, Warhammer 40,000 video games, Eldar, Tyranids, List of Gaunt's Ghosts characters, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, Daemon, Space Hulk, Gordon Rennie, Psyker, Ciaphas Cain, Tyranid Hive Fleets, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault, Dan Abnett, Chaos Space Marines, Ork, Simon Spurrier, Warhammer 40,000 spin-offs, Space Crusade, Squat, Genestealer, Graham McNeill, Horus Heresy, Tau, Necrons, James Swallow, Anthony Williams, Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior, Old Ones, Damnation Crusade, Zoat, Dark Eldar, Ian Watson, Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online, Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka, Kroot, The Redeemer, Final Liberation, Simon Jowett, Warhammer Monthly, Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate, William King, Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels, Snotling, D-Rok, Inferno!, Realm of Chaos, Greater Daemons, Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War, Alex Stewart, Cassern S. Goto, Planetary Defence Force, Ripper Swarms. Excerpt: This list is of characters featured in the Gaunt's Ghosts series of novels by Dan Abnett, which are set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe. Biographical details are included. Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt is the commanding officer of the Tanith First-and-Only during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Not much is known of Gaunt's past prior to his training under Commissar-General Delane Oktar, but several flashbacks in First and Only tell enough to justify his character. Gaunt served as a Cadet Commissar in the Hyrkan 8th under the command of Oktar. He was well liked by the men, and known as "the Boy" (a moniker which annoyed him greatly). Shortly before Oktar's untimely demise on Glyatus Decimus - after an incident involving tainted alcohol and most of the Hyrkan's celebrating senior officers - Gaunt is promoted to a full Commissar, although his spirits are dampened by the death of his mentor. He continues to serve in the Hyrkan 8th as a political officer for some time, and somehow enters Warmaster Slaydo's ring of favoured officers. After his participation in a key battle on Balhaut, Gaunt was awarded the additional rank of Colonel by the dying Warmaster and given command of three newly-founded regiments from a backwater world called Tanith. Slaydo also promised him the settlement rights to the first world conquered by his regiments. When Gaunt travelled to Tanith to oversee the Founding of the Tanith 1st, 2nd and 3rd regiments, a splinter fleet of Chaos ships slipped through the Imperial Navy's blockades and attacked six worlds, one of which was Tanith. Gaunt ordered the immediate withdrawal of the Tanith regiments before the attacks came, and escaped Tanith's destruction with roughly 3,500 men - just enough to form a single regiment: the Tanith First-and-Only. Gaunt leads his regiment of stealth specialists - nicknamed Gaunt's Ghosts - through many dangerous warzones, replacing their losses with new troops from various worlds. Despite his initial doubts about the