Marlene Karn

Marlene Karn is a character first mentioned in Yoshiyuki Tomino's Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam novelization. She also appears in the Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait Of Young Comet manga.

Background
Marlene Karn was the first daughter of Zeon admiral Maharaja Karn. Her beauty had caught the eye of Vice Admiral Dozle Zabi, and she was subsequently taken as his mistress. This was also done to garner protection for the Karn family, whose head, Maharaja, was a survivor of the political purge of Pro-Zeon Deikun loyalists enacted by the ruling Zabi's. Maharaja is stricken by feelings of guilt as a result of this. However, Marlene is treated courteously by Dozle, and often accompanied his wife Zenna as an attendant.

As the One Year War drew to a close, Marlene fled the Earth Sphere, immediately before the fall of the Zabi family, in obedience to Dozle's wishes. Marlene had always been physically weak. Her sister, Haman had attempted to prevent her sister from leaving, due to her weak health. Sympathizing with Marlene's wishes, Haman left the Earth Sphere along with her sister and father, but still resented Marlene for doing so. Marlene died before reaching the asteroid belt, and Haman became one of Mineva Zabi's attendants in her sister's place.