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 tiersMessages you carried home for other people.
Crew Courier
3 tiersCrew members whose words you brought home to their families.
Photo Courier
3 tiersPhotos 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 cruiseThe 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 tiersMessages you passed along, phone to phone.
Backbone
per cruiseTop relayer on your sailing.
Deck Walker
Relayed from five or more different decks. Moving around spreads coverage.
Iron Node
per cruiseMesh active every single day of the voyage.
First Ten
per cruiseOne 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 tiersCrew you brought aboard who verified and went active.
Referral
3 tiersPeople you brought aboard who went active.
Sailing Seeder
per cruiseFive or more people on your own sailing installed before departure.
Shipmate Signal
per cruiseSomebody aboard installed from your code mid-sailing.
Group Captain
per cruiseYour 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 cruiseWrote 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 cruiseYour first conversation with someone you did not board with.
Social Butterfly
per cruiseMessaged ten or more different people on one sailing.
Quorum
Started a group that reached ten members.
The Organizer
per cruiseHosted 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 tiersDifferent ships sailed.
Line Hopper
Three or more different cruise lines.
Old Salt
3 tiersDays at sea with the mesh on.
Port Collector
3 tiersPorts 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 cruiseYou were the fox for a hunt.
Found the Fox
per cruiseYou tracked down a fox.
Bloodhound
per cruiseThree 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 cruiseFive 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 cruiseFifteen phones met on embarkation day - the day that decides how well the whole sailing works.
Cat Whisperer
per cruiseYou found Chatty three times.
Deck Hopper
per cruiseTen deck changes in a day.
Stairmaster
per cruise3 tiersDecks climbed on this cruise.
Keel to Crow’s Nest
per cruiseEight levels between your highest and lowest in one day.
Link in the Chain
per cruiseYou 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.