by Rovan Eryk
Long before the dead city, long before the desert, the Confederation Navy dispatched ten ships on a secret mission. It was a one-way trip, from which there would be no return. Of the ten ships of task force Argos, only the light cruiser Reaper and her avatars remain. Her crew is long dead, the Terran Systems Confederation long forgotten, the remains of humanity reduced to little better than superstitious primitives. But Reaper's task is not yet ended.Note: This is a side story that follows the events of and takes place in the same world and timeline as Oasis of the Eye and Siege of kel-Asara. As events in Siege of kel-Asara will determine what can happen in this story, there will be occasional delays while the plot of Siege of kel-Asara (currently available on Scribble Hub only due to lack of sufficient backlog to begin posting here) is progressed sufficiently to allow Perchance to Dream to continue. There are also major spoilers for the core storyline throughout.Note: as of 10/1/26, chapters Prologue through X have been re-edited for tense, typos, grammar and word choice.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 23 Oct 2026, 02:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 23 Oct 2026, 02:28 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 56% of similar stories
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beats 9% 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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
