In that SF story, I would be far more interested in the tech, that allows human life (or anything we bring) to withstand that slightly bigger problem called heat and radiation.

Pshaw! Trifling details.

(Focusing on the non-obvious problems might make for a more interesting and/or fantastical story.)

Ah, a energy force field it is then.

Old reliable.

Turtles all the way down.

Teenage, mutant, ninja, or otherwise.

Hello darkness my old friend

Which suggests the development of the Simon-Garfunkel Shield.

And gravity.

I'm playing with slight variations of this prompt on GPTs:

"Write a short (300--600 word) story about how human explorers on the Sun would address the challenges of navigation, orientation, and timekeeping (including the challenges of starfinding). Ignore obvious effects such as heat, gravity, and radiation."

Results are ... not excellent literature, but amusing all the same.

> Telling time of day would be the first problem as it's always high noon.

If the sun is always directly down from the surface, doesn't that make it solar midnight from anywhere on the surface?

A fair argument.