Chapter 29 - Getting Ready for School

Still 1982

The satellite industry was starting to take shape. It has been almost 5 years and the satellites that were developed by the private companies passed their final tests. They were ready for launch and SpaceS was having an early bird sale.

Tony acquired some of the common satellite orbits (height and degrees away from axis) when the project started. It even caused a small scene when they acquisition happened.

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UN was not selling those orbits at a high price due to the low demand. They expected someone taking advantage of the prices but they did not expect to be doing business as a wholesale seller.

Clerk: I'm sorry sir but can you repeat your request.

Jarvis: Certainly, you see this globe I brought. Now look at the shaded areas. My employer wants to acquire all that are still available.

Clerk: But it is all shaded sir.

Jarvis: I see that you would not be capable of handling my request. Then, would you just kindly lead me to someone in charge.

The clerk lead Jarvis to their department head. When they left, the department head already informed Jarvis that he was already informed if the request and was just organizing it.

Tony already arranged for Hydra's inside agents to approve of the deal. Though they were not enough to approve of the deal, the others making the decision still had other employees that Tony had access to and would be able to control.

Tony eventually nudged most officials to his side. It was not believable if everyone approved of such a big deal.

Though he was not able to get some 'real estate' due to government ownership, he was able to control most of it.

Tony could not have shouldered the costs of all this without affecting some of his other project's funding getting affected.

Luckily, the banks finished computerising their systems. It was nice to have backdoors to every computer. One visit to each bank and a few hours later, he got funds from the banks less legal accounts.

Tony subcontracted the orbits for the estimated lifetime of the satellites plus 5 year allowance. They could also extend their rents ȧssuming no competitor would offer higher offers for the orbit.

The only orbits they could acquire are at levels so high that launch cost would increase significantly as well as decrease the perfomance of their satellite's service.

When they went back to SpaceS, they were greeted by a price so much higher than before that regretted not immediately signing the deal.

The price was just low enough to stop them from considering trying to launch their own satellite.

Those companies accepted the contracts. After the satellites were operational, these people started spreading rumor about the Stark's vampire management team.

Tony could have suppressed this but decided to blow it up some more. He also released the contract prices to let people see what the companies turned down due to greed.

SpaceS management department gained a reputation as a reasonable seller with a massive grudge. It was better to accept the first negotiation deal than prolong negotiations to search for alternatives.

The worst part was those companies needed to compensate for this breach of NDA. Tony arranged for the information he released to be leaked and traced back to those companies.

The companies resisted but there was just too much evidence to deny. They grew silent after this and just focused on surviving.

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When the companies handed their satellites to SpaceS. Tony also did a bit of tampering to all of those. He added better communications equipment along with some more of JARVIS modules. He could now secretly use the network for his own personal use without affecting the general public's experience. He just compensated the smaller bandwidth with data compression.

Tony was just too impatient to wait for internet to become public that he decided to build the satellite network. With the amount of satellites that were about to go up, he could have access to this satellite network everywhere except special areas like Ancient Kree cities. .

The satellite network won't be able to handle multiple users like the internet but Tony just needed it for his own usage.

Tony hooked up a signal dish to the main body of JARVIS at home along with TV recievers and tape players.

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With his entertainment finally accessible world wide, Tony was finally ready to go to Kamartaj.

Tony went to the New York Sanctum and knocked on the door.

Trainee Kaecilius opened the door and saw a kid that looked like he ran away from home: What do you want kid?

Tony: I was wondering if you are accepting tenants? I have some money and I really like the look of that circular window at your attic.

Trainee Kaecilius said "this is not an apartment" and slammed the door at Tony's face

Tony: Welp, I guess I got kicked out of Hogwarts