Deep dive // fiction
Distress Calls
From a warden's radio to the armor's visor in under a minute. Anatomy of a ping.
body green armor is an original fictional persona — not a real person, not a real unit. Transmissions, the timeline, and the mission stories on this site are written lore for the character.
A ping starts with a warden's radio: block, nature, souls. Relay takes it at the tower — voice calm, pencil moving — and routes it to the armor's frequency in under a minute. The acknowledgment is always the same two words, and Relay says you can hear the hydraulics spool up underneath them:
PING RECEIVED. MOVING.
What 412 pings sound like
Relay's logs are the closest thing to the armor's biography: terse, complete, unadorned. Flood evacuations are the most common call — the water decides, and the Wards ping early. Collapses and fires are rarer and louder in the log. The quietest entries are the best ones: “civilian clear. armor clear. ping closed.”
The strangest ping on record: a cat in a storm drain, logged at 03:00, answered in eleven minutes. Wrench laughed for a week. The armor's close-out was standard — “ping closed” — and Pip's chalk star on the drain cover is still there.
The one that wasn't answered
There isn't one. 412 pings, zero missed — the standing record, and the reason the Wards ping first and ask later. Relay's night-shift sign-off says it all: “quiet night — armor's got it.”
Source notes
- Original fiction; the ping system and records are story canon.