Priya Ramaswamy learned the Helios Grid from the rectenna fields up, translating for the engineers who beam power out of the sky and the officials who bill for it. She came to the tech desk from applied optics, and she still lights up describing how a gigawatt crosses vacuum without spilling. She has toured the Solaria Array on a maintenance rotation, wept at the view, and filed anyway. Readers rely on her to make the invisible infrastructure legible: why a throttled beam is a threat, why corridor maintenance is politics wearing a hard hat. She champions orbital solar with a partisan's warmth, which her rival on the fusion beat never lets her forget. She writes fast and revises faster. She believes the grid is the recovery's beating heart, and she is not neutral about hearts.
Raw telemetry shows the hour-long rectenna blackout was a manual order from above the crew, not a load-balancing test — and the corridor dispute just became diplomacy.