On board

It works when nothing else does.

Your Masters file at noon ship’s time, on the wheelhouse PC, with or without a link.

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One file per vessel No installer and no account Nothing typed is ever lost

Neptane vessel terminal · MT Aurora Crest · Noon report Demonstration vessel

The Neptane vessel terminal on a wheelhouse PC at night: the passage and cargo across the head, a link chip stating how many items are queued, and the noon report itself — the day’s burn entered by consumer against the ship’s own learned range, with remaining on board derived beneath it rather than typed into a box.

The terminal

One file per vessel, and a link it does not depend on.

No installer, no account

One file on your wheelhouse PC, activated once against the vessel.

Per vessel

Offline is the normal case

The form saves on board as your officer fills it, and goes ashore when a link opens.

No link required

Reports go ahead of photographs

On a thin link the noon report does not wait behind a defect photograph.

Prioritised

Nothing typed is lost

What your officer entered survives a closed lid, a lost link and a restart.

Durable

Airtime

It reports without spending your allowance.

A noon report is a few hundred bytes. A photograph is three megabytes. Software that treats them the same is software your Master switches off.

The terminal’s outbox: the noon report at the head of the queue at 1.2 kB, the link log behind it, then the defect report and its thumbnail, and last the full-size photograph marked held on board at 2.8 MB — each item listed with the bytes it will cost.

The logger sits on board

Your office does not poll the ship to find out whether she is reachable. The terminal keeps its own hourly record and sends the day’s record once, compressed, behind everything else. A month of it is smaller than one photograph.

Downlink is a digest, not a database

The ship is sent what changed that concerns her — a certificate that moved, an approval, an alert — and nothing else. It arrives as a few hundred bytes a day, so the bridge is not the last to know and the bill does not notice.

A photograph waits to be let go

The thumbnail goes with the defect so your superintendent can see what he is being told about. The full photograph stays on board, listed with its size, until somebody decides the link can afford it. It is still there a month later.

One noon report: 1.2 kB on the wire, envelope and all
A vessel, for a month: Around 220 kB, uplink and downlink together
Held back: Full-size photographs, until the ship releases them
Measured where: On board, by the terminal, item by item

A ship's wheelhouse at night, instrument screens carrying the only light in the room.

Built for the room it runs in.

A wheelhouse at midday is the brightest place this software runs, and the darkest place at three in the morning. Both renditions ship.

On the officer’s side

Questioned, never blocked.

The fastest way to lose your fleet’s data is to argue with the man entering it at noon.

The range is shown

Where a figure falls outside what the vessel has established, the terminal states the range it expected and asks for a line of explanation. The figure is accepted either way, and your office receives both.

A sounding is recorded beside the book

Where a tank has been sounded and the sounding disagrees with the book, the book stands and the sounding is kept beside it with the tolerance named. That is how it is settled on a real ship.

A correction is a movement

Nothing on board is overwritten. A correction is recorded as a movement, dated and attributed, so your figure ashore and the figure aboard tell the same story afterwards.

The same terminal in its day rendition: white ground, the same noon report, the same derived balance — built to be read in a wheelhouse at midday.

Proof of service

The link is measured on board.

From shore, an outage and a switched-off bridge PC look identical. The terminal keeps its own hourly record of what the link actually did, and the hours it was not awake for are left as a gap rather than counted as an outage. Your coverage figure is measured, not assumed.

The terminal’s own link log: twenty-four hours drawn as a strip, each hour coloured for a link open, a thin link or no link, with the two hours the terminal was not awake for left hatched rather than counted; beneath it, the month’s data weighed item by item and totalled.

Filed on board, arrived ashore

Thirty days, twenty-two vessels

Demonstration fleet of twenty-two invented vessels. Nothing filed is ever missing; it is only late.

Table view

Reports, by day
Day	Filed on board	Ashore same day
Day 1	22	22
Day 2	22	22
Day 3	22	21
Day 4	22	22
Day 5	22	19
Day 6	22	16
Day 7	22	15
Day 8	22	18
Day 9	22	22
Day 10	22	22
Day 11	22	22
Day 12	22	20
Day 13	22	22
Day 14	22	22
Day 15	22	17
Day 16	22	14
Day 17	22	16
Day 18	22	21
Day 19	22	22
Day 20	22	22
Day 21	22	22
Day 22	22	22
Day 23	22	21
Day 24	22	19
Day 25	22	22
Day 26	22	22
Day 27	22	22
Day 28	22	22
Day 29	22	20
Day 30	22	22

Two vessels, one quarter

Put it on two bridges.

One file per vessel, activated once. Your crews keep their paper log throughout.

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A vessel already running the terminal writes to support@neptane.io — the Master directly, if he wants to. It does not go through your office first.