Sept 1–Sept 15, 2017
"The Battle for the Sky"
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1. The First Signal – September 3, 2017
It was a quiet Sunday morning when a ripple swept across India.
Villagers in remote Arunachal Pradesh suddenly saw their phones blink with full signal bars. A doctor in Nagaland, who had struggled for years with poor connectivity, placed the region's first high-definition video call with colleagues in Delhi. Children in Mizoram streamed educational videos for the first time.
The first prototype Saraswati satellite had gone live.
On Twitter, hashtags exploded: #IndiaInOrbit #DigitalFreedom #MayaIyerVision.
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2. CEO Vikram Malhotra – The Power Behind Chips
In Bengaluru, Vikram Malhotra stood before a packed press hall. Behind him glowed the logo of Shakti Semiconductors, now the official chip supplier for the satellites and the ground-link devices.
> Vikram (calm, commanding):
"We don't just build chips. We build independence. Every satellite, every receiver, every secure device you see today runs on Indian cores. This isn't just Saraswati's achievement. This is India's sovereignty etched in silicon."
The crowd roared. For the first time, Indian semiconductors were being spoken of in the same breath as Intel or TSMC.
But Vikram knew the truth: without MC's hidden designs, Shakti would still be five years behind.
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3. Shadow Threats – Attempted Sabotage
The celebration was short-lived.
In a dark cyber-lab in Shenzhen, a team of state-sponsored hackers launched an intrusion attempt into the Noida Saraswati servers. Their goal: disrupt the uplink calibration for the new satellite, forcing it off-orbit.
Inside the estate, alarms flared red across MC's private command hub. Aarya's voice snapped like thunder:
> Aarya: "Foreign intrusion detected. Attempting to destabilize Noida relay protocols."
MC's eyes narrowed.
> MC: "Not today."
With a flick of his hand, he deployed a swarm of counter-AI guardians. They traced the attack back, corrupting the hackers' own systems with recursive loops until their machines collapsed into digital silence.
> Aarya (dryly): "They wanted to crash us. Instead, they crashed themselves."
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4. POV: Maya Iyer – Fire and Calm
The next morning, Maya Iyer stood at the podium, radiant as always, addressing the rumors of cyberattacks with serene confidence.
> Maya (publicly):
"India's satellites are secure. Our networks are secure. And let this be clear: any attempt to sabotage them is not just an attack on a company — it is an attack on the dreams of a billion people. And dreams, once awakened, cannot be silenced."
Her voice carried across every channel. Overnight, her approval ratings soared to stratospheric levels.
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5. POV: Pentagon – Growing Unease
In Washington, a senior defense meeting reviewed the news.
> Analyst: "First satellite operational. Attempts to breach their servers have failed. Shakti chips appear to be far ahead of our last estimates."
General: "And this Maya Iyer?"
Analyst (hesitant): "She's… untraceable. No past records before 2016. Some in the intelligence community now speculate she isn't even—"
General (interrupting): "Enough. Whether she's real or not, she's winning."
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6. Rural POV – A Farmer's Joy
In a small village in Meghalaya, a farmer named Tenzing Rai used the new Saraswati app to check weather forecasts and crop prices. For the first time in his life, he wasn't at the mercy of middlemen.
> Tenzing (grinning to his son):
"Now we know the rains before they come. No one can cheat us anymore."
His words echoed the quiet revolution happening across the Seven Sister States — exactly where MC had wanted the network to make the first impact.
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7. Estate – The Hidden Hand
That night, in the quiet of his estate, MC watched reports flood in: farmers smiling, doctors connecting, students laughing at their first streamed cartoons.
Beside him, Aarya whispered in her calm, melodic tone:
> Aarya: "The world will soon realize you declined every partnership for a reason. You wanted no foreign chains on this sky."
MC (cold, determined): "They will try again. More subtle, more dangerous. That's why Vikram stands in front. That's why Maya speaks. And that's why I remain unseen."
He leaned back in his chair, eyes glinting.
> MC: "Because the sky now belongs to us — and I will never let it fall."
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End of Sept 2017 – Outcomes
First satellite active: Full coverage in parts of Northeast India.
Shakti Semiconductors (Vikram Malhotra): Now a household name, symbol of Indian chip sovereignty.
Cyberattack defeated: Foreign hackers humiliated; suspicions rise abroad.
Maya Iyer: Elevated as an untouchable figure, "India's Iron Voice."
MC: Strengthens resolve to keep control absolute, unseen but everywhere.
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