Ourang Medan
- "Mayday, mayday...! This is a distress call from the Medan! Our vessel is shipwrecked. The captain and the entire crew are dead, their bodies scattered all over the chart room and the bridge. They're all dead. Every last one of them. And before long... I will join them."
- ―The Ourang Medan's final message, 1940s.[src]-[m]
The SS Ourang Medan was a ship used by Abstergo Industries during their early years after the company's founding.
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In the 1940s, the Ourang Medan was deployed to the sea near the Strait of Malacca in an attempt to recover a crescent-shaped Piece of Eden that had been hidden there. The mission ended in failure and the vessel became a shipwreck, with the artifact remaining there.[1] Stories later emerged about the circumstances surrounding the ship's disappearance until the tales became urban legend.[2]
In 2023, an Abstergo team led by Shimazu Sei re-discovered the Piece of Eden's location within the Medan's wreck through the genetic memories of Edward Kenway relived by his descendant, Noa Kim.[1] With a diving bell ship sent by Sei's superiors, Noa and Sei's bodyguard Yuki dived down to the shipwreck to recover the artifact. However, the two were separated, and Noa came across a nest of aggressive moray eels.[3]
After escaping from the eels, Noa found a room filled with the skeletons of the deceased crew members, as well as the Piece of Eden. However, as he touched the artifact, its powers, combined with the Bleeding Effect that Noa was suffering from, caused him to experience hallucinations of Edward's memories. Most notably, he spoke with an apparition of Bartholomew Roberts, who initially taunted Noa, but after realizing he could temporarily resist the Piece of Eden's corruption, encouraged him to continue his search for answers.[4]
Awakening from the hallucination, Noa took the Piece of Eden and reunited with Yuki before the pair decided to return to their ship as they were running low on oxygen. While swimming back to the diving bell, a shark attacked them but Noa used the artifact's powers to repel it, allowing him and Yuki to enter the diving bell and return to the surface safely.[5]
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The SS Ourang Medan's shipwreck -
Noa and Yuki exploring the shipwreck -
Noa finding the artifact, surrounded by the crew's remains
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