Scorched Earth: Solaris Dawn

When the Sun No Longer Forgives

The heat came early.
Then it didn’t leave.

In the high-desert town of Pinyon Ridge, Arizona, the summer arrives a month ahead of schedule—and never truly ends. Power grids strain. Water is rationed. Jobs disappear hundreds of miles away as cities built for a cooler world begin to empty.

Mark Calderon, a remote software engineer and former soldier, notices what others don’t: this isn’t a bad year. It’s the start of something permanent.

As extended family members arrive seeking refuge, Mark and his wife Isabel make a choice that sets them apart. Instead of waiting for relief, they adapt—drawing on old principles of engineering, earth-sheltered construction, and brutal realism. Beneath the sun-scorched surface, they begin building something designed not to survive the heat, but to live with it.

While governments hesitate and corporations scramble, a quiet revolution takes shape underground. What begins as a family solution becomes a blueprint for the future—one that attracts attention, capital, and inevitable conflict.

Scorched Earth: Solaris Dawn is not a story about the end of the world.
It’s about what comes after denial—and the people who choose to stay, build, and endure when the climate no longer negotiates.

The sun has changed the rules.
Civilization must change with it.