00:00New Kalondinia produces 25% of the world's nickel, making France billions, while the indigenous Kanak people remaining among the poorest on their own island.
00:13But tonight, someone is about to change the balance of power forever.
00:18The protests that have simmered for decades are about to explode into something far more dangerous.
00:24Dr. Sarah Teva, a Polynesian computer scientist educated in Paris, has spent three years infiltrating France's colonial digital infrastructure.
00:36The empire that colonized her ancestors is about to face its greatest threat from within.
00:43In Paris, President Dubois faces a crisis that can only end France's status as a global power.
00:50Across four oceans, coordinated cyber attacks are crippling the infrastructure that keeps 2.8 million overseas citizens under French control.
01:01The empire that generates billions of resources and gives France the world's second largest maritime territory is under siege.
01:10But this isn't foreign terrorism. No, it's not foreign terrorism at all.
01:15The attackers know French systems too well.
01:17The attacks target the economic juggler of France's modern empire.
01:23In Montigny, shipping that connects Europe to the Caribbean grinds to a halt.
01:29French Guayana space program, Europe's gateway to orbit, falls silent as launch systems fail.
01:37Military communications across the Indian Ocean go dark from Uribe on.
01:42And in New Calendonia, the nickel mines that fund France's Pacific presence shut down as industrial computers crash simultaneously.
01:53Captain Roussa leads France's most elite counter-terrorism unit towards New Calendonia.
02:00But she doesn't know that her target isn't a terrorist.
02:04It's a brilliant scientist fighting for her people's freedom.
02:08No more awakens to the revolution.
02:11For 170 years, France has extracted billions of nickel wealth while the Kainak people watched the island strip bare.
02:21The cyber attacks have given local independent movement to the opening they've waited for generations.
02:27French administrators barricaded themselves in colonial era buildings as Kainak flags replaced French tricolors across the Capitole.
02:37But this uprising has a digital mastermind who understands that true independence requires more than street protests.
02:46From her hidden command center, Dr. Teva orchestrates the most sophisticated anti-colonial operation in history.
02:55Her network spans from the Caribbean to the Pacific, connecting independent movement fighters that France has kept isolated for centuries.
03:06She is not just attacking computer systems.
03:08She is dismantling the digital chains that bind 13 territories to Pettis.
03:14Every satellite link severed, every administrative database corrupted, brings her people closer to the freedom that France has denied them since 1853.
03:26In Paris, President Dubois faces an impossible choice.
03:32Deploy military force against French citizens or watch as France loses its global empire and becomes just another European country.
03:40The hunt for Dr. Teva becomes a race through the heart of Kainak country, where French colonial exploitation is written across the landscape, in shrimp mines and industrial scars.
03:55Captain Rose begins to understand that she is not chasing a terrorist, but a woman fighting to free her homeland from 170 years of resource extraction.
04:07As her helicopter flies over villages that have watched the mountains carved away for French profit, Rose questions whether she is on the right side of this war.
04:17As French commandos storm her bunker, Dr. Teva activates the final phase of Operation Independence.
04:26Across 13 territories spanning four oceans, the digital infrastructure of French colonial control collapses permanently.
04:35Administrative systems crash, military communications fail, and economic networks dissolve.
04:41She knows she won't survive the next few minutes, but her sacrifice will give 2.8 million people the chance to choose their own future.
04:51The French empire that survived two world wars and decolonization is about to end with not military defeat, but with the click of a keyboard.
05:01France awakens to this new reality.
05:04It's no longer a global empire, but simply a European nation.
05:08The age of French colonial control ends not with warfare, but with the courage of one woman who understands that true freedom requires sacrifice.
