Daylight

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A shared world science-fiction setting for Daria fanfiction. Daylight was created and placed online in October 2008, open for any fanfic writers to use as they pleased. The only "rule" was that no one was allowed to write a boring story. The "bible" main page is on Dariaverse.com, though backup pages are available elsewhere.

The idea for Daylight came from numerous sources, the main one being Larry Niven's award-winning short story, "Inconstant Moon." J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World helped a little, too. An excellent source of additional nonfiction material on this topic can be found in Dr. Philip Plait's Death from the Skies! in chapter two, "Sunburn," but the solar eruptions in this story setting were meant to be far more powerful and longer lasting than those described in Dr. Plait's book.

The reverse-Doomsday Clock image also used for the Daylight setting; it represents the post-Zero Hour world and the solar events that caused the crisis

Synopsis of the Setting

The events occur on and around Earth in the writer's chosen Dariaverse. For unknown reasons and with little warning, the Sun destabilizes and becomes highly eruptive and moderately hotter for a relatively short period of time (several decades minimum, though at the writer's option it can last up to a millennium). This has profound consequences for human civilization, to say nothing of the rest of Earth's biosphere. The disaster unfolds in logical stages over time, throwing down new challenges at a rapid pace on top of the old.

The actual event that began the Daylight Crisis (including the first Coronal Mass Ejection impacts against Earth's magnetosphere and the initial catastrophe that followed) is called Zero Hour.

Trivia

The shared setting of Daylight has no connection to the movie Knowing, which has a similar theme. For one thing, Daylight came out before the movie, which was released March 20, 2009, in one of those funny episodes of independent invention. The designer of Daylight has the satisfaction of knowing that the fanfiction setting is a far more accurate depiction of an actual series of superflares than Knowing presents, plus there are no aliens, codes, or silly things like that in the fanfiction setting.

Daylight Fanfiction

Internal Links

• Ashes and Kisses by Legendeld
• Baked Alaska by Brother Grimace (Daylight/Alliance)
• The Essentials of Everyday Living by Brother Grimace (Daylight/Alliance)
• Falling From Grace by Disco316
• The Fugitives by Disco316
• Recruitment Day by Richard Lobinske
• A Visit to Camp Grizzly by Richard Lobinske
• Wagon Train To The Stars by Brother Grimace (Daylight/Alliance)

External Links

• "Before the Coming Dawn," by Brother Grimace (Daylight/Ringbearers)
• "Bird with Black Wings" by Roentgen and Brother Grimace (Daylight/Legion of Lawndale Heroes)
• "Dayside" by Legendeld
• "Erebus" by Roentgen (Daylight/Legion of Lawndale Heroes) (includes "Tartarus" and "Hemera")
• "Final Field Trip" by LSauchelli
• "A Good Deed Repaid" by Brother Grimace (Daylight/Ringbearers)
• "Home Field Advantage" by Brother Grimace (Daylight/Alliance)
• "Nightside" by Legendeld
• "Palmed Cards" by Gouka Ryuu (Daylight/Legion of Lawndale Heroes)
• "Paying Off Old Debts" by Brother Grimace (Daylight/Kim Possible)
• "Remember When the Music" by Dennis
• "Return to Daylight" by Legendeld
• "Reporting from Echo Base" by Brother Grimace (Daylight/The Alliance)
• "Science Abuse" by Psychotol (Daylight/Braniac: Science Abuse)
• "Storytime" by Doggieboy
• "The End of the World" by smk
• "The Hope Mission" by Brother Grimace
• "Trek" by Smileyfax
• "When Worlds Divide" by LSauchelli

External Links on the Series

• Daylight main page on Dariaverse.com
• Daylight backup page on separate server (used as template for series bible updates)
• Daylight: A modest shared-multiverse proposal (PPMB discussion thread)
• Daylight: The (Short) Fanfics (includes discussion and questions)
• Daylight: A shared-world proposal for Daria fanfiction (SFMB discussion thread)
• Daylight: The One Year Later Fixup Thread