Helena Mårtensson

> *"I am a humble servant of a far greater faction, an unknown party that is yet to reveal itself very soon and exclusively to you. You've reached uncharted and dangerous provincies here, and you rather reach them first before they reach you. You're no longer allowed to be naive and make mistakes twice, Miss Albion." - Mårtensson to Albion*
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## Overview

Founder and CEO of Oceanica Group, **Helena Mårtensson** was the first female villain encountered by protagonist Veronica Albion and the main recurring villain of Eight Ball's **Chapter IV " Apollyon", Chapter V "Naamah"** and **Chapter VI "Pluto" (1993) r**espectively.

As a global political figure of wealth and social privilege, Helena emerged as a charismatic ecologist leader and worldwide activist regardless of her overwhelming financial power, including lobbying and changing the political arena several times for her own political and personal agenda through proper and improper channels.

Helena Mårtensson was considered a prominent public figure during the end of the 80s and the early 90s, mainly due to her position of CEO of **Oceanica Group,** one of the world's largest conglomerates and member of the **Five Diamonds Group**, on which suscribed companies were classified by Global 500 as corporations with the world's largest revenues and market capitalization respectively, therefore ranked within the Top 10 world's largest companies by Fortune 500.

She was considered, alongside Vincent Duran and Irma Lorenz, the ***Core Evil*** by Veronica Albion, a Cluster of recognized professional "obstacles" to her personal endeavours.

## Personality and traits

Helena was characterized by her strong-willed, estoic and extremely serious character, including a humble and down-to-earth external appearance to the public, and especially, to her foreign relations.

Nevertheless, Mårtensson public and private appeareance was several times undermined by her uncontrolled and unmedicated Bipolar Disorder, which prompted her to undesirable and often extreme over-reactions. Although suffering from her uncontrolled bipolarity, Helena was quite accurate in her endeavours and extremelly well-known for her well-planed long-range strategies and counter-offensives actions against those who considered her enemy, including kidnapping, extorsions and even murder in extreme cases.

## Mårtensson & Albion connection.

At some point during 1990, Oceanica Group became a prime client and rather strategic partner for Lewis & Clark LLP, which prompted Golden Conclave to asign a special envoy and attaché, being Veronica Albion herself downselected.

Rivalry and envyness arised soon between Albion and Mårtensson due to several key factors, which it seems to be solely based on emotional backgrounds rather than business or other further technical reasons, although Albion managed to keep a low-proflle role as a legal advisor for **Oceanica Group** for an extended period of time.

It was finally revealed by Vincent Duran, that Mårtensson and her company were secretly under the control of the Saṃsāra Circle, forcing her to fuel an artificial conflict with Albion in order to allow a swift take-over of Leiws & Clark and its powerful and unique AI Database Complex. Both the Saṃsāra Circle and Mårtensson considered Veronica Albion an obstacle and quite often a danger for their purposes by unknown reasons, nonetheless reasons regarding her executive position, leadership and higher intellect were among the determining factors.

## Apperances

* Chapter IV " Apollyon" (1991)  - First appearance.
* Chapter V "Naamah" (1991)
* Chapter VI "Pluto" (1993) - Final appearence.
* Chapter IX "Uroborous" (1994) - Mentioned only and flashbacks.
* Chapter X "Neptune" (1995) - Mentioned only.

## Curiosities

* Mårtensson's favourite soundtrack was **"The Great Commandment"**  from German synthpop band Camouflage, first released in 1987.
* Helena's personal vehicle was a dark red 1990 Volvo 740 Turbo.
* Her Zodiac sign was Gemini.
* Helena's surname comes from Bertil Mårtensson, Swedish author of science fiction, crime fiction and fantasy.
* Mårtensson's first name comes from Helen of Troy.
* Helena Mårtensson's creation was inspired by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.