The Solar Sprawl

The Solar Sprawl
Urban Ruins – Faction: @The Solar Guardians

Once, @The Solar Sprawl was nothing but sun-bleached wreckage—buckled overpasses, collapsed rooftops, and cracked asphalt glinting under an uncaring sky. Now, it is a radiant bastion, the domain of the Solar Guardians, who have transformed ruin into a living circuit board. Vast fields of solar arrays crawl across rooftops like metallic lichen, feeding their current into fortress-like substations that hum with stored daylight. From these hubs, power surges outward, illuminating hydroponic towers, defense grids, and the scattered homes of those who have sworn fealty.

The Guardians rule with the precision of engineers and the zeal of crusaders. Clad in sand-scoured exosuits patterned with sunbursts, they patrol the Sprawl’s perimeter like radiant sentinels, cutting down shamblers and raiders before they can shadow the panels. Every watt is measured. Every ration is earned. Citizens are conscripted into maintaining the grid—scrubbing dust from panels, replacing damaged wiring, running cooling systems—under the doctrine that “energy is salvation, but only for the worthy.”

To live here is to trade freedom for light. Compliance brings safety, clean water, steady food, and the hum of dependable power. Defiance brings exile, or worse—cleansing by fire. The Solar Sprawl is more than a power source. It is a temple to the burning sky, and the Guardians are its high priests, ensuring the sun’s light never dims… no matter what, or who, they must burn away to keep it shining.