by Perneis
The last xeno war went cold when Ethan was still a child. Fleets of ships terraform sectors at a time, expanding the outer reaches of the Regency, bringing with them endless tides of citizens who long for the opportunity and freedom of life away from the suffocating bustle of developed worlds. Ethan is no different. He has plans. Plans of psionic awakenings, mountains of credits and his own space ship. Not one of those plans involves remaining on his mother’s ship, maintaining bulkheads or tweaking mag rails. No, he wants adventure and the Ashen Expanse, with all its history and controversy, is going to give him all the adventure he could ever ask for. - A sprawling galaxy full of life with political and economic environments that matter. - Creative skill and gear progression, with a deep psionic system starting to appear around chapter 70. - A chaos gremlin crashing into an uncompromising galaxy. 300k+ words written. New chapters every other day.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:38 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
5%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Action → Fantasy → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (4%).
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
#12043 of 12,158 · 11993 below RS #50
By genre
beats 71% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 26% of similar stories
Hidden gem — exposure is the bottleneck
Readers who find this story follow it at a high rate; there just aren't enough of them. In our cohort data, near-daily posting lifted the odds of reaching 25 followers from ~0% to 17% — more chapters, shoutout swaps and ads buy the eyeballs this conversion deserves.
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.
