Ark is the off-grid layer of the sovereign stack — being built to keep a node sensing, located, connected and alive with no internet, no grid, no GPS. Part of it already works: it finds your position from the stars, carries signed commands over a mesh, and grows every key from one seed. The radios and the rest are on the way — we say what’s proven and mark what isn’t.
A node that can run on its own — and still reach the others.
GPS-free positioning from the stars — a sextant reduction in software, anchored on the south celestial pole. No satellite to jam.
An encrypted LoRa / Reticulum mesh — chat, commands and position, every frame signed so nothing can be forged. Up to 300 km line-of-sight, no tower, no internet.
Offline knowledge on board — medical, safety and reference, retrieved with the network optional. Paired with NeuronAI / Cipher when there is one.
Weather and sensor telemetry over the same mesh — one antenna for environment and comms, where every link is also a measurement.
One sovereign seed grows every key. A captured node is just ciphertext; keys can be revoked and restored from a Shamir backup — useless to anyone but you.
The mom test: one screen, plain words, four buttons — I’m OK · Need help · Find people · Message. The machinery stays invisible.
Built and tested in software — no hardware required to prove it.
The celestial engine recovers a position from star sights — round-trip verified to 0.00 nm in test, with realistic sextant accuracy on rounded readings.
The mesh codec + command loop carry chat, commands and position in a LoRa-sized frame — every critical frame Ed25519-signed, the acceptance gate passing.
A single seed grows the whole keyring (SLIP-0010), verified against the official test vectors. No rolled crypto.
Ordered and on the way — honestly marked, not claimed.
LoRa for the un-killable narrowband backbone; Wi-Fi HaLow for the bulk / video tier. The software is written; the antennas are incoming.
Raspberry Pi + a Hailo accelerator at each node — local AI that survives the loss of any mothership.
An offline, witnessed seed ceremony (Shamir 3-of-5) plus key revocation and recovery — built last, after a full security review.