by TheAcornScribe
Salvage Engineer Thomas Aacen swore he'd never work with Captain Barstol again, but was blackmailed into it. The blackmail was falsified, but even still, it might have been better to just let him spill it, cause now he was abandoned for dead on a remote planetoid with no atmosphere, desperately looking for a way to survive. But that is just the beginning of his troubles, when his attempt to survive unearths the truth about the ship Captain Barstol just hauled away. A truth that would put the whole quadrant in danger.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 3 Oct 2026, 15:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 3 Oct 2026, 15:28 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
17%
Two or more lists
0%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (17%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#4892 of 12,345 · 4842 below RS #50
By genre
beats 37% of similar stories
beats 77% of similar stories
beats 15% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
