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ETERNAL DAWN
By Staffan Von Zeipel
When Earth’s rotation is siphoned for energy and begins to slow, days stretch longer until the planet stops turning — leaving humanity’s only chance of survival in the fragile twilight between eternal sun and endless night.
SYNOPSIS:
Eternal Dawn – An Epic TV Series in 5 Seasons
The year is 2040. Humanity faces the greatest energy crisis in history: oil reserves are gone, solar power is crippled by constant atmospheric haze, and AI data centers consume more electricity than nations can supply. Salvation seems to arrive in the form of HeliosCorp, a mysterious company offering limitless power.
But when a group of scientists discovers that HeliosCorp is siphoning energy directly from Earth’s rotation, the miracle turns into catastrophe. Days grow longer, storms and floods surge beyond prediction, and the world’s leaders realize too late that the damage is irreversible. As the planet grinds to a halt, one half scorched by eternal sun and the other frozen in endless night, humanity’s only hope lies in the narrow twilight zone.
Season 1 – Year 0: Collaps
Follows this unraveling crisis: governments falter, fragile settlements form in the twilight zone, and a desperate struggle begins to redefine what survival means. Each following season leaps forward in time — ten years later, a century later, a millennium later, and finally ten thousand years into the future — as new generations confront faith, power, and extinction in a world forever trapped between fire and ice.
Eternal Dawn is a sweeping saga that combines the intimacy of personal survival with the enormity of planetary change — told through the struggles of one family line across the ages. A mythic science fiction epic about humanity’s resilience, fragility, and the eternal question: when the world stops turning, how will we endure?
To explore more about the series and discover what the later seasons reveal, click here: www.zeipels.se/eternaldawn
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You probably should add format somewhere so we know at the start it's a series of some sort. Love the idea.
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Thanks, Sanna — and thanks, Caliann, for the feedback. You’re absolutely right, it should be clear from the start that it’s a series. I’ve added a first line to make that clear, and also a link at the bottom for anyone interested in seeing what the later seasons reveal :-)
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When does this take place? Slowing rotation is a LONG haul. HOW would the rotation be siphoned? And it would cause so many issues I can not even begin to name them, so why would people do it? Just asking a common sense question....
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Great question, Jon! You’re absolutely right that slowing Earth’s rotation on a realistic timescale would take millions of years and cause all sorts of side effects. For Eternal Dawn, I lean into the science fiction aspect – it’s a speculative “what if” rather than a strict scientific model. In the same way we often hear sound in space battles (even though space can’t carry sound) or see humans freeze instantly in vacuum, it’s more about creating a dramatic visual and emotional canvas than a hard-science simulation. The key for me is the human story that unfolds in that twilight zone of survival.
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I'm getting some 2003's The Core vibes here.
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I like sci fi that has a plausible explanation for things, or suggests one. Just my opinion. Asimov was good at this. He predicted AI and massive computer capabilities. Human/computer interfaces.
For instance, how to explain the UFOs that are filmed suddently stopping after travelling at impossible speeds, then reversing into impossible speeds.
If you can write something plausible about this, science experts (or even students) won't laugh and turn it off.
Near FTL drives? There are already some plausible scenarios.
Sci fi that makes no sense makes me laugh.
You know this one: A moon that people invade to steal food crops? From far away? Wouldn't hydroponics make more sense close by? Why not an energy source used to make light and heat, then grow food? The cost of moving mass quantities of food grains to another system makes the premise ridiculous. Yet someone WROTE this and SOLD it and it got made. HOW? And my ideas never get looked at...
50% is now passing in some city schools...
One of our national politicians is afraid Guam will capsize with too many people on it.
IDIOCRACY was a documentary.
Staffan, not being critical of your hard work. You have a good idea-I think you could tweak it to make it more believable. Maybe something other than slowing rotation? I do see many sci fi logline/pitches/ synopsis/treatments on here that don't make science sense.
NOBODY GET OFFENDED, PLEASE. JUST MHOP.
You’re absolutely right Jon — a sci-fi story always gains more weight when there’s at least a plausible explanation behind the concept. I’ll definitely do some deeper digging to see what angle I can come up with.
It actually made me think of the old series Space: 1999, where the Moon suddenly gets propelled out of orbit by nuclear waste and then manages to reach a new star system every few days. It’s completely impossible of course, but it still made for fun storytelling. :-)
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Humans: I love when sci-fi is scientifically accurate.
Humans the next day: OMG, a Death Star that literally sucks a sun! That’s so cool!
I love the idea of eternal dawn. You could build an entire IP around it — an altered culture, rituals tied to the endless dawn, myths about people living in perpetual darkness or heat.
Anyway, if this ever gets the greenlight, count me in for the writers’ room — I’d love to help build the lore.
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Loved the idea. Definitely belongs in a series format. Sounds like something I'd love to watch. Only thing I'd point out is: who's the lead? Do you have someone I'd care about or is it just a group of scientists?