
by Teleros
Miami is burning, and the people with the power to save it are the same ones half the country wants to destroy. When ordinary humans begin manifesting extraordinary abilities – flight, super-strength, cryokinesis, teleportation – the world calls them ascendants. Some see them as heroes. Others call them weapons of mass destruction. David Kane sees an opportunity: assemble a team, protect his city, and prove that ascendants can be the solution instead of the problem. The Steel Sentinels are six heroes standing between Miami and everything that wants to tear it apart – drug cartels armed with military hardware, a terrorist organization that believes ascendants should rule humanity, political forces determined to register and control anyone with powers, and threats that strike closer to home than any of them expect. But holding a team together is harder than fighting supervillains. Loyalties fracture. Secrets fester. And when betrayal comes from inside their own ranks, the Sentinels will discover that the greatest danger was never the enemies at the gate. Expect: ensemble cast, high-stakes action, political intrigue, team dynamics, morally complex heroes and villains, and a Miami that feels alive. This is adult superhero fiction – no systems, no stats, just powers, consequences, and the people caught between them. Based in the world of Ascendant: the Superpowered Role-Playing Game of Infinite Possibilities.
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 02:38 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
10%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Contemporary → Sci-fi → Drama → Romance → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Contemporary (7%).
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
#11806 of 12,418 · 11756 below RS #50
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