The shared field a cooperative keeps together — as distinct from the sovereign field each person keeps alone.
PHAROS separates what is yours from what is ours, and never quietly moves things between them. A record belongs to one side or the other because its own metadata says so — not because of which folder it sits in.
The sovereign personal field. Yours alone, on your own machine, under your own key. Nothing leaves it without a deliberate act.
The collective field. What cooperators have explicitly chosen to share, and only that. This page is its front door.
A lantern is a keypair, not a verified identity — so a person may hold several, one per facet of their life. A helm is the navigation surface inside a lantern. Trust is not a claim to have one body; it is your position in a web of signed contacts.
Stated plainly, because a cooperative that overstates its own size is not one.
Both lanterns are held by the same person. The mechanism works — keys, signing, verification, transport, the whole chain has been exercised end to end. What it has never carried is a second human being.
So OUR is, at the time of writing, a field of one. That is not a soft launch or a private beta. It is the honest state, and it is the single thing worth changing.
There is no signup form here, and that is deliberate — an account we could create for you would not be sovereign. Joining means holding your own key.
That third step is the one that has not happened yet. Everything before it is built and waiting.
A keeper's own helm is private and lives behind their own door; there is nothing to see here without a key, by design.