Badges

A cruise is a week with the same few thousand people, and the app only works if enough of them are running it. These are the things worth recognising: carrying somebody else’s message ashore, keeping the mesh alive at 3am, and the voyages you pile up.

60 in the catalogue · 18 earnable today, the rest arrive as the fleet starts reporting.

Carrying traffic ashore

Your phone got other people's words off the ship.

Signal Hero

3 tiers

Messages you carried home for other people.

Crew Courier

3 tiers

Crew members whose words you brought home to their families.

Photo Courier

3 tiers

Photos you carried ashore for other people. Photos are the heavy cargo.

Port Runner

Opened your connection in port and cleared the ship's backlog.

Night Watch

Kept relaying overnight while the ship slept.

Harbor Master

per cruise

The single biggest delivery run on your sailing.

Message in a Bottle

A message you carried hopped for more than a day and still arrived.

Mesh aboard

Passing messages along, phone to phone.

Relay Runner

3 tiers

Messages you passed along, phone to phone.

Backbone

per cruise

Top relayer on your sailing.

Deck Walker

Relayed from five or more different decks. Moving around spreads coverage.

Iron Node

per cruise

Mesh active every single day of the voyage.

First Ten

per cruise

One of the first ten active nodes on your sailing.

Bringing people aboard

More people on your hull is what makes your own app work.

Crew Referral

3 tiers

Crew you brought aboard who verified and went active.

Referral

3 tiers

People you brought aboard who went active.

Sailing Seeder

per cruise

Five or more people on your own sailing installed before departure.

Shipmate Signal

per cruise

Somebody aboard installed from your code mid-sailing.

Group Captain

per cruise

Your whole travel party on the app for the same sailing.

Family Ambassador

Every seat on your family pass claimed and active ashore.

Chain Reaction

Someone you brought aboard went on to bring somebody else.

Fleet Builder

Your referrals span three or more ships.

Crew Advocate

A crew member joined because of you. Crew are free — this is pure goodwill.

Home connection

The people waiting for you.

Homebound

Your first message home from sea.

Postcard

Your first photo home.

Daily Letter

per cruise

Wrote home every day of the voyage.

Six Seats Full

Every seat on your family pass in use, ship and shore.

Aboard

The ship you are actually on.

First Contact

per cruise

Your first conversation with someone you did not board with.

Social Butterfly

per cruise

Messaged ten or more different people on one sailing.

Quorum

Started a group that reached ten members.

The Organizer

per cruise

Hosted a meetup people actually turned up to.

Voyages

Where you have been.

Maiden Voyage

Your first sailing with the app.

Return Sailor

You came back for a second cruise.

Fleet Explorer

3 tiers

Different ships sailed.

Line Hopper

Three or more different cruise lines.

Old Salt

3 tiers

Days at sea with the mesh on.

Port Collector

3 tiers

Ports you have written home from.

Shellback

Wrote home while crossing the equator.

Blue Nose

Wrote home from inside the Arctic Circle.

Canal Rat

Transited the Panama or Suez canal.

Back-to-Back

Two consecutive sailings on the same ship.

Era

Things that cannot be earned again.

Verified Crew

Confirmed crew member.

Mesh Pioneer

Aboard for one of the first sailings that proved the mesh.

Founder

One of the first thousand. Your number is the badge.

Plank Owner

Aboard the first sailing where a real mesh formed on this hull. Minted once per ship, then never again.

Shakedown Cruise

Sailed during the proving year, when none of this was certain.

Games

Playing makes the network better. That is the whole reason they exist.

Fox

per cruise

You were the fox for a hunt.

Found the Fox

per cruise

You tracked down a fox.

Bloodhound

per cruise

Three foxes found on one cruise.

Night Courier

Your phone carried messages through the night while you slept.

Night Watch

Three nights carrying for other people.

Lighthouse Keeper

per cruise

Five nights on one cruise.

Castaway

You set a bottle adrift.

Ocean Current

A bottle of yours passed through twenty-five hands.

Landfall

One of your bottles reached shore.

Beachcomber

You carried ten bottles for other people.

First Contact

per cruise

Fifteen phones met on embarkation day - the day that decides how well the whole sailing works.

Cat Whisperer

per cruise

You found Chatty three times.

Deck Hopper

per cruise

Ten deck changes in a day.

Stairmaster

per cruise3 tiers

Decks climbed on this cruise.

Keel to Crow’s Nest

per cruise

Eight levels between your highest and lowest in one day.

Link in the Chain

per cruise

You were part of a chain that stretched the length of the ship.

Crew are free for life. Their badges are their own — and what a crew member carries for their colleagues is never ranked in public.