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Your callsign — the only step

How you are known. Never a legal name. Once this exists the app is ready — the section below is optional and most operators will not have one at first.

This is a pseudonym, not anonymity. It is a key generated on this phone, and everything you sign with it links together — patrols, answers, anything you add to the directory. That is what lets your work count as yours. If you need something genuinely unlinkable, it has to be a separate identity, and nothing here can retroactively unlink what this one has already signed.

What else is made from it

A second key is derived from it and published, so messages to you can be sealed against a future quantum computer as well as a present one. If somebody you send to has not published theirs yet, the message still goes with ordinary encryption and Status says so — nothing is held back, and nothing pretends to cover more than it did.

Nobody can give this back to you. There is no account, so a lost phone is a lost persona unless you have made a backup — and choosing not to is a real choice rather than an oversight.

Someone you would call

One tap on the Distress screen opens a message to them, already written. Nothing is sent automatically and you have to press send — a web app cannot do it for you, and this app will not pretend it can.

Their number stays on this phone. It is never sent to a watch, a relay, or anyone else's machine — there is no list of operators' contacts anywhere for anyone to take. A burn erases it; a panic wipe does not, so it is still there the next night.

A watch — optional, and only if somebody gave you one

Skip this. You do not need a watch to use NavCom, and having none is how most operators work. Come back when somebody hands you one.

What it adds: Query, Assist and Distress — the three things that need a person on the other end. What it does not change: everything else, which already works.

Handed to you in person, on paper or by whatever you already use. Nothing discovers a Watchtower on its own — a list of them would be a list of where operators are.

Usually empty. A watch running on a box holds its own key, and that is what most people are given. A squad with no box holds the watch on their phones instead, and lists one key per phone here — whoever is on this list can read everything you send, on watch or off. It comes from the same person who gave you the pubkey; nothing discovers it.