Resistance and Enlightened alike are invited to converge on a city forged in steel and shaped by resilience. Youngstown’s industrial roots run deep, and its revival story is written into the streets, the landmarks, and the people you’ll meet along the way.

"Join us in downtown Champaign for a First Saturday full of battle beacons, missions, friendly agents, and other assorted Ingress winter merriment. "

Most agents treat recursion as a milestone you plan for weeks, maybe months. Hit L16, reset, rebuild, repeat. Last weekend, longtime agent Agent Gordog looked at that loop and asked a simple question: what if I didn’t wait?

They did not call it Recursion in the times of lore. That word is a convenience added later, a label to make the act survivable in conversation. The original term does not translate as cleanly.

Suspension of disbelief is not self deception. It is an agreement to let metaphor do its job. When you glyph hack, you practice stillness under pressure. When you link, you practice intention. When fields rise, you feel consequence ripple outward. None of this requires believing in alien matter. It requires believing that play can teach.

January 3rd, Resistance and Enlightened converge at Navy Pier for Ingress First Saturday – Chicago.

rdwrer continues his trip home from Cleveland. Heading to Portage, Indiana and visiting local RES Agents 42BadWolf and kelitsos in Chesterton!

NIA Researchers have detected XM signals indicating an Anomaly manifesting on the 28th of February, 2025, in Charlotte NC.

Niantic announced a new Campaign that will run from December 16th, 2025 to February 5th, 2026: Operation Polaris!

Bravery is needed sometimes where you wouldn't think.

Agents have organized XFAC Battle Beacon events to fight Battle Beacons for the +Beta series score, and for their personal points. Some have seen over 100 agents per faction in attendance.

Little Free Library, Little Free Library, Memorial Bench, Little Free Library, Little Fee Library. I think the last one is something new...

Join the RESISTANCE February 28 2026 for +Gamma Anomaly in Charlotte, North Carolina.

This December, the Southern Indiana Crossfaction crew -- famous for rarely hosting events in Southern Indiana -- is bringing #IngressFS back to Zionsville, IN.

Join Chicagoland Agents as they break out the rubber chickens, December IngressFS in Berrrrrwyn!

Congrats to rdwrer for finally nabbing the badge he's been chasing for months, if not years: Onyx Pioneer. 20,000 unique portals captured, thousands of miles driven, hundreds of miles scootered, and lots more went into this achievement.

A shadowy cabal of them that are suppose to do something. "Them" There is no They, They is Us At an IngressFS I recently overheard an agent expressing the hope that "They" do something to bring more people into the game. Agents, we have been given the world as a stadium. We have been given bats and balls in the form of our scanners, and they have given us the rules by which the game works. Effectively, Niantic has set the stage for us. "They" aren't building teams too, that i

Ingress Resistance Agent rdwrer throws a casual 1.8 million MU as he crosses into New Mexico from Texas.

Join Southern Indiana Cross Faction Events as they finish up 2025 with a traditional IFS during Christmas in the Village on Main Street!

One Ring literally puts you on the map. Whether you are looking for help, or looking to help 1R is the best place to sort out the details.