We need your help.
If you haven’t already taken a look at what we’re building, start here: getlolagen.org and gen.lolawireless.com. Spend a few minutes with it. We think you’ll get it immediately — because you’re exactly the kind of person who would.
You Already Speak This Language
You’re the one your friends call when something stops working. You’re the one who actually reads the specs, understands the infrastructure, and sees the potential in something before everyone else does. That’s exactly why we’re talking to you.
Because what we’re building here isn’t just another product launch. This is something that is genuinely needed — in every household, in every community, in every corner of the world. And the people who need it most don’t yet have the vocabulary to understand why. That’s where you come in.
We’re not asking you to sell anything. We’re asking you to translate.
Take what you understand about this technology, about what it means to have real, decentralized, peer-to-peer communication infrastructure that no one can switch off — and bring it to the people in your circle. Your podcast listeners. Your followers. Your group chat. The friends who text you when their WiFi goes down. Whoever they are, they need to hear this. And they’ll understand it better coming from someone they already trust.
Why This Actually Matters
Right now, every major communication network in the world is centralized. That means at any given moment, someone — somewhere — has their finger on a button that could unplug your entire community from the outside world. You have no say in that. Neither does anyone else. You’re always at the mercy of whoever controls the infrastructure.
And the devices themselves? They’re not really communication tools anymore. They’re tracking instruments dressed up as phones. The data flowing through them is largely junk — ads, surveillance, and an illusion of connection that’s done more psychological damage to this world than most people want to admit. There’s nothing social about social media. It’s an engineered distraction, and we all know it.
Mercury I changes that.
For the first time, there is a globally coordinated, peer-to-peer emergency communication network that gives the power back to the individual. No central kill switch. No mandatory carrier. No one holding the button but you. This is first-of-its-kind — not a repackaged CB radio, not a ham radio hobbyist setup, but a complete, coordinated system built from the ground up around the needs of real people in real communities.
And when disaster strikes — when the towers go down, when the grid fails, when the infrastructure everyone takes for granted suddenly isn’t there — Mercury I is still standing.
The Team Behind It
This isn’t a startup running on ambition alone. The people building this have been here before — at the foundation of the technologies the modern world runs on.
One of our team members is a former IEEE board member who designed and implemented the original SCSI data storage protocols — the work that laid the groundwork for how computers store data today. Another led the entire engineering department responsible for developing the first cellular and two-way radio communications switch. These aren’t résumé lines. These are the people who built the foundation that cellular technology stands on right now.
We know what we’re doing. And we know what this can become.
Here’s What We’re Asking
We respect your time. Content creation takes serious dedication, and we know your energy is valuable. We’re not asking you to become a spokesperson. We’re asking you to look at this, believe in it the way we do, and share it with the people who trust your voice.
If your community gathers at least 250 Mercury I pledgers, you’ll qualify to become a GENSTAR community. From there, you’ll have the opportunity to become the Mayor of that community — or nominate someone within it who’s ready to lead.
If you’d like physical materials to support your outreach — something tangible to hand people, something they can hold onto — we can make that happen. We believe in printed things too. Digital is here today and gone tomorrow. Some things deserve to exist in your hands.
We’re on the edge of something. The goal is to pre-sell 50,000 units — a big ask for a first-of-its-kind product, and we know that. But we also know that once you truly understand what this is and what it does, you won’t be able to argue that the world doesn’t need it.
There’s no global coordinated protocol for emergency communications. Not one that’s peer-to-peer, not one that’s accessible to everyday people, not one that combines everything into a single package and puts control where it belongs — with the individual.
Until now.
So take a look. Dig in. And if it moves you the way it moves us — tell somebody.