Solid Light

Solid Light (German: Festelicht) is a Kalharian superhero franchise created by SFLD in 2003. The franchise began as a comic book but has spawned into other media, including video games and a television series. The franchise is set in a futuristic, dystopian Kalharia, and centres on the adventures of Tobias Benz, a young petty criminal who becomes involved with a mysterious scientist who claims to have invented (or discovered) solid light, a potential source of immense physical power. Whilst the series is primarily episodic, an ongoing story arc reveals more about the characters and the setting.

Setting and backstory
The series is set in the year 2093 in the city of Markstadt, which is located somewhere on the coast of mainland Kalharia. The city, like the rest of the world, is technologically advanced, but has fallen foul of pervasive technology, high crime, indiscriminate mass consumerism and environmental damage. The city authorities and law enforcement are rampantly corrupt, and are fully under the control of private corporations.

Tobias Benz is, like many young people, unemployed. In order to support himself and his housebound, agoraphobic mother, he resorts to petty crime. One night, he breaks into what he assumes to be an abandoned warehouse but is captured and drugged. When he comes round, he finds himself in the lair of a mysterious older man, who introduces himself only as Schmidt but appears to be some form of scientist. Schmidt reveals that he has CCTV footage of Tobias' attempted break in, which he threatens to release to the police.