by Spike368
In the relatively near future, the first human colony has been founded on a world around a different star. They mine the ore that will build the route home and wait for the Corporation that founded the colony to decide whether or not the colony and their continued existence are viable. The first man who landed there, the first interstellar Pioneer that turned on the vast Terraforming engines before any other colonist landed, has been found. Murdered. His fame and his notoriety means that a detective must be sent from Earth to solve the largest locked room mystery in the humanity's history. Because the murderer is still on the colony. And what will the killer do next?
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 11 Oct 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 11 Oct 2026, 14:28 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.
Not enough recent follower history to estimate a shadow rank yet.
beats 18% of similar stories
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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.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
