Some notable in-world events are described here.

The first story arc of the reboot, which took place from May 2, 2023 to November 2, 2023. See Felicity Love.

The Gough ceremony took place on 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 WORM agents. The ceremony lasted about 20 minutes and included:

• Dramatic helicopter entry by Dr. J Marvin Blackweather and his companion,
• Memorial of the MELTR3 incident¹⁾ 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,
• Surprise enlistment of Emtanon's Gough Island interns into the 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:

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

Operation Spice was a failed WORM operation in Lima, Peru, which aimed to capture and detain counter-operatives from a local hackerspace. Due to mismanagement and several organizational mishaps, the operation led to the capture of agents by the Peruvian cartel, and eventually, thanks to our interference, to the loss of the ship MO3 and defection of the crew of MO5.

Preparations for the operation in Lima were started in late November 2023, when several assets, including MO3 and FACILITY were seen repositioning to the area on AS32 telemetry.

On January 8 2024, we intercepted an Iris conversation between SB and Maria in which Maria was assigned as a handler for the operation, thanks to her position in the Pacific command and ability to speak Spanish. At this point in time Maria has already established herself as a known troublemaker, so the expectations of this mission going south at some point were high. Maria was told to fly to Lima, and subsequently started making arrangements for the mission. After renting a car, she met with the crew of MO3, spent some time getting drunk at a hotel, and attempted reconnaissance on a local hackerspace, which turned out to not exist. The mission was shortly put on hold, as additional resources were flown in and more research made.

The raid began on January 16th. SB sent details of the counter-operatives' location to Maria over telefax, which came out garbled. Maria, unsure where to go, picked out a location close to the beach, which turned out to be one of the most dangerous places in the entire country. After ignoring SB's call to abort the mission, the crew went out to do some ground work, at which point they were held at gunpoint by a gang. Shortly after, all contact with the team was lost.

A day later, Maria turned up at the airport having somehow escaped from the shakedown. She was taken to Gibraltar for questioning. Later, we learn that the operatives have been kidnapped by a Peruvian gang and are being held for ransom. J is unfazed by this, and decides to cut his losses:

On January 21st, a debrief of the mission is shared on AS32:

On January 20th, we receive an Iris message from a mobile unit:

Seeing that J is uninterested in resolving this hostage situation, we devise a plan to save the hostages in the hopes of them defecting from Emtanon and joining our cause. Having no way to pay the ransom we are asked for, we decide to offer one of Emtanon's ships as a ransom payment. From previous messages, we have learned that Marine Org vessels are worth millions of dollars, and the kidnappers happily take us up on the offer. We then use the Aqua terminal to impersonate Pacific command and order the crew of MO3 to strip their ship of weapons and Emtanon equipment and prepare for the handover. We also tell them to leave the semaphore equipment onboard, which allows us to track the ship after it's handed over, and gives us an opportunity to sink it, if we ever find the correct passwords and codes.

Over the following week, we keep exchanging messages between us, the crew of MO3, and the cartel's broker to arrange the deal. It is finally completed on January 27th, when MO3 sets off on a training mission with some crew, and the kidnapped agents are reunited with the rest, and picked up by MO5. The training ends abruptly a few days later, and the remaining crew are dropped off in the high seas to be picked up by MO5.

Having rescued and reunited all the crew, we reveal ourselves as the counter operation. After describing our motives as altruistic, the crew decides to join our cause and help us in disrupting Emtanon's activities.

MO3 remains under the control of the Peruvian cartel, its explosives package and transponder still active.

As a punishment for mishandling the operation, Maria was reassigned to Gough Island for some time.

For a short time some Emtanon employees were concerned about MO3 going rogue, and some aerial surveillance attempts were made (sabotaged by the counterop-friendly crew of AIR1), but no further action is taken, and the ship still roams the Pacific Ocean.

The combined crew of MO3 and MO5 remains friendly and stays in touch over iris, providing us some insights about the current events and aiding the new crew of FACILITY after the mutiny.

FACILITY is an old cargo ship that was retrofitted as a prison for the “counter operation” and disobedient Emtanon employees. Threats of detainment there were once common. FACILITY also had a resident “judge” that gave out sentences in “trials” that were certainly fair.

Jeff provided us with some passwords to FACILITY's semaphores. On February 10, 2024, we found a semaphore filled with 0xFF bytes; we flipped them to 0x00, having no idea what it'd do. Afterwards, we learned this unlocked all prison cells. Some detainees managed to take control of the bridge and barricade themselves there. We established contact with them over Iris.

At the time, FACILITY was in the South Atlantic Ocean and heading for Gough Island. Hoping to rescue all detainees, we ordered them to set course for the nearest land: Saint Helena. MO2 was dispatched to assist at FACILITY. They managed to remotely disable FACILITY's engines, letting MO2 catch up to her. The detainees who took over the bridge voluntarily surrendered – but not before asking us to unlock all cells again at a specific time.

After the unlocking, the detainees returned to the bridge, killing all its occupants with some sort of chemical weapon they found in a storage. Afterwards, they locked up the surviving crew in the cells. The detainees then set course for the Pacific Ocean, to get away from all the Emtanon assets in the Atlantic.

With FACILITY definitely out of control, J decided that she must be remotely scuttled. We assisted the detainees with disarming the package of explosives aboard the ship, following instructions we intercepted on a terminal months earlier. J personally executed the commands intended to scuttle the ship; he was fooled to believe they worked, while in fact they did nothing. In message 19424, J described the scuttling as FACILITY crew's personal demand.

FACILITY is still out at sea, and remains under control of the former detainees. They are assisted over Iris by the friendly crew of MO5. Her former crew were locked up in cells until early April 2024, when the new crew stranded them at some rocks west of Hawaii, in revenge for a similar act done on their friends months earlier.

Operation Biblioteka (Polish for “library”) is an upcoming operation involving smuggling of documents from Poland to Belarus across the Bug river. Afterwards, they will be carried to AIR2, waiting at the Brest Airport.

First hinted at on March 9, 2024, the operation has been delayed by an unexpected death of the intended handler, “FM”, in a poisoning incident around March 8. Since then, it has been waiting for assignment of a new handler.

Mission details were transmitted using Flare Pepper Kitchen on March 12. According to the briefing, it will involve a small radio-controlled plane carrying the documents across the river. In case of interference by authorities, the agents are supposed to inundate them with bat facts.