Open the map. The tablet draws on it - there is nothing to carry and nothing to bind. Drag any panel by its header; right-click a header to put it back where it started. ESC, a click on the map, or the panel's CLOSE shuts an app.

The band across the top. Each tile is a live readout and the button that opens that app:

• DRONES - CLEAR or DETECT, bearing and range of the nearest hostile drone. Opens the drones page.
• JAM - RF %, SPECTRUM CLEAR / DEGRADED / SMOTHERED. Opens the jamming page.
• HACK - LOCKED or READY, "IN RANGE - PRESS TO OPEN". ISR operators only.
• INTEL - the files you have recovered.
• WEATHER - wind, visibility, first and last light, moon.
• TIMER - shared alarms and a stopwatch.
• RADIO - who is with you on the channel.
• SUPPORT - TAC//SUPPORT: transport, air and artillery (when ALiVE is running).
• PAC - your record, the roster, the OPORD, requests.

A tile your role does not get is not drawn. A band dragged too narrow shows +N at its right edge.

[PICTURE: the tile band close up, one tile per app]

One row per man, coloured by health: green, amber (wounded), grey (unconscious), black (killed). Press a row for SQUAD STATUS: his ACE report, FILE CASEVAC FOR him with the grid already filled, MESSAGE him, TUNE his radio. Leaders also get PLATOON STATUS.

Your own ACE report - A ammunition, C casualties, E equipment, each GRN / AMB / RED / BLK - publishes the moment you press the letters. There is no send button.

The big button under the rail. One press files a TIC on the command net with "CONTACT - DETAILS TO FOLLOW", marks the map for your side and alerts everyone. It holds for 30 seconds after a press. Write the details in the thread afterwards.

[PICTURE: the TROOPS IN CONTACT button]

The gear under the reader. Colour scheme (JMSB Night is the default), which panels show, which nets alert you, UI and text size, your quick replies.