====== Gough Ceremony ======

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The **Gough ceremony** took place on [[:places#Gough Island]] on September 24, 2023 at 15:00 UTC. The event was broadcast over all [[:agent systems]], rendering them unusable for regular communication with [[:organizations#WORM]] agents. The ceremony lasted about 20 minutes and included: 

  * Dramatic helicopter entry by [[:characters#Dr. J Marvin Blackweather]] and his //companion//, 
  * Memorial of the MELTR3 incident((The MELTR3 incident was one of the first events in the original OTP22 chronology, back in 2012. It involved a convoy of ships travelling through the Arctic. One of the ships, MELTR3, was attacked and sank by a pair of MiG aircraft. On board that ship was agent Ai Bouerges, who supposedly died in the incident. The counter-operation assumed her identity while interacting with the agent systems.)) and the Delaware Tape Retrieval System fire, consisting of a minute of silence and a 33-gun salute, 
  * Link-up to a sentecing hearing aboard //[[facility_redemption|FACILITY]]//,
  * Surprise enlistment of Emtanon's Gough Island interns into the [[:organizations#Marine Org]].

The start was delayed by several minutes, and the connection unexpectedly dropped out 16 minutes in. The event was supposed to end with a grand speech by J, but was cut short by the South African Navy, who arrived to carry out a surprise audit of the Gough weather station.

During the memorial, SSTV images of MELTR3 crew were broadcast:

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| Captain Max "Riptide" Anderson | Lt Cmd Amelia "Sea Serpent" Reynolds | Chief Engineer Natalia Petrov | Helmsman Carlos Ortega |
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| Petty Officer Jack Mitchell | Comms Officer Daniel Mitchell | Agent Ai Bouerges | Ensign Marcus Turner |