[Writing Prompt Story]

Since eternity timekeepers have prevented time related paradoxes from happening. Paradoxically this made the job rather boring since all paradoxes were already prevented, but if noone did the job then paradoxes would happen. Jack and Matteo were two timekeepers doing their job by having already done their job reviewed timelines for amusement.

"Hey Matteo come look at how timeline 8973 has developed!" Jack gestured for Matteo to come look at the timeline on the chronicler. "So it looks like timeline 8973 becomes a dark solarpunk timeline." Jack said in awe. Matteo gazed upon the chronicler with a curious and confused expression. "Dark solarpunk? How does that even happen?" Matteo as a timekeeper has chronologically already seen many dark solarpunk timelines but that was his future self in the past so this time would technically be the first time. "Well it looks like a technological breakthrough in timeline 8973 on Earth results in solar panels that efficiently make electricity from all wavelengths of light resulting in a solarpunk timeline. Then a technological breakthrough in remote energy transmission results in solar satellites providing energy that supplements and eventually surpasses the energy from rooftop solar panels. The supply of energy combined with increasingly limited land as the population grows over time leads to the rise of megacities comprised of residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural superstructures surrounded by preserved natural habitats." Jack pauses the chronicler on an image of a forest in front of a wall of gleaming skyscrapers. "What happens next is where it gets interesting."

Jack displays the Earth's Moon uncolonized on the chronicler. "Limited land and further scientific breakthroughs cause the Moon to be colonized. Centuries later the Moon has a bunch of megacities just like Earth but since the Moon doesn't have plants which require sunlight the solar satellites of the Moon end up being replaced with a super solar satellite since in this timeline they fail to develop a laser based method of energy transmission that can transmit enough energy to power megacities without breaking so they are limited to receiving energy from planetary orbiting satellites instead of getting energy from sun orbiting satellites but they do develop stationary satellites that use ion drives to move to and stay in certain positions in space." On the chronicler was the view of a lunar city beneath a solar eclipse caused by a gigantic disc shaped solar satellite. "Wow that is something." Matteo remarked as the chronicler shifted to showing a view of the Moon from Earth shrouded in darkness by a huge stationary solar satellite with dots of lights from lunar cities being the only light on the surface. "That is nothing just look what happens further on." The chronicler showed the progression of the timeline. A solar satellite eclipsed city with a backdrop of red sands on Mars. Another solar satellite eclipsed city completely dominated a landscape with Jupiter in the night sky dotted with towers and floating cities that were darkened by an absolutely massive solar satellite. A sunlit Earth in a solar system of solar satellite shadowed planets. Then other solar systems and planets in perpetual solar eclipse. "That dark solarpunk timeline sure is something." Matteo remarked. "It sure is." Jack responded.

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