by virian22
The Empire of Ten Million Suns is the greatest empire the Great Wheel has ever seen. In its millions of years of existence it has outlived stars and extinguished them. It has turned the galaxy from a wilderness of death and fear to a prosperous realm only to leave it to rot. This is not the story of its heydays but the story of a soul from another universe trying to survive in its decadent death throes .
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #48
2d
#12
8/11/2026
Peak #49
0d
#11
8/8/2026
Peak #49
0d
#10
8/8/2026
Peak #50
0d
#9
8/7/2026
Peak #50
0d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#7103 of 7,531 · 7053 below #50
By genre
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Both levers trail the field
Traffic and conversion are both below comparable stories. Cadence is the first lever — stories posting near-daily reached 25 followers 17% of the time; stories posting every few days almost never did. Get the flow going, then re-check conversion.
At this conversion, the Sci-fi Rising Stars bar (≈1 new followers/day) costs about 2.0k views/day — the story currently gets ~83.
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.
