Editing Carlotta Helgameyer

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| name                = Carlotta Helgameyer
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| affiliation         = [[House Helgameyer]]
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| spouse              = [[Tollen Brasednewic]]<ref name=MSe>''Mercenary's Star,'' Epilogue</ref>
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'''Carlotta Helgameyer''' was a leading figure in the resistance against the [[Draconis Combine]] occupation of [[Verthandi]] in the early part of the [[thirty-first century]].

==History==
Carlotta was a tall and lovely young woman, and to [[Grayson Carlyle]]'s eyes, barely more than a girl.<ref name=MS_110>''Mercenary's Star'', p. 110</ref> She had blonde hair.<ref>''Mercenary's Star,'' p. 177</ref>

===Working Against House Kurita===
While a member of the Verthandian Revolutionary Council, she remained on the staff at Regis University. Helgameyer was the rebels' liaison with anti-Kuritan groups operating in the city of Regis.<ref name=MS_110/>
She arranged for the warehouse fire in Regis to conceal the nighttime approach of [[James Thorvald]] and his forces.<ref>''Mercenary's Star'', p. 15</ref>

===Passion versus Politics===
Helgameyer pursued a love affair with [[Tollen Brasednewic]], which they had to keep a close secret. As the daughter of one of the "[[Verthandi Old Families|Old Families]]" of Verthandi - the descendants of the original colonists - Carlotta could not admit her involvement with Brasednewic, who was from a family that had emigrated to Verthandi to escape the destruction of the [[Succession Wars]] on worlds deeper within the [[Inner Sphere]]. There was considerable animosity between the two groups, and she feared the political damage news of their affair might do to the often-delicate revolutionary movement.<ref>''Mercenary's Star'', p. 150</ref>

===Prisoner of the Combine===
When the rebel base at Fox Island was raided by Kuritan forces, Carlotta Helgameyer was captured alive. Governor-General [[Masayoshi Nagumo]] turned her over to his interrogators, they were able to break her to the point where she revealed the existence of rebel sympathizers inside Regis University.<ref>''Mercenary's Star'', pp. 244–246</ref> She named many of her colleagues as rebels, including [[Olav Haraldssen]]. In all, 117 people were arrested on her information and were summarily executed in the courtyard of the University.<ref>''Mercenary's Star'', p. 251/ref>

===A New Beginning===
Carlotta survived the rebel uprising that broke the will of the Kuritan occupation forces. She had been left traumatized by her brutal treatment, but being reunited with Tollen Brasednewic went a long way towards helping her emotionally. She married Tollen, and with him as Verthandi's newly installed head of state thanked Grayson Carlyle and his [[Gray Death Legion]] as they prepared to leave Verthandi.<ref name=MSe/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''[[Mercenary's Star (novel)|Mercenary's Star]]'' (novel)


[[Category:Lyran Commonwealth Characters|Helgameyer, Carlotta]]