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by GorMartsen
Flight Lieutenant James Cameron of the Royal Air Force was shot down over Iraq on 21 March 2003.He survived the crash, if barely. But what happened next was something he had no words for. Back in the Jedi Temple, Padawan Taren Lose lost consciousness after touching an artefact.It's hard to say who woke up in his body later. — Fanfic, isekai/reincarnation, Star Wars. A bit more of a mystery than an action story. A wartime pilot from Earth ends up in the early era of the High Republic. The New Sith Wars are still fresh in memory, but most of the Jedi who witnessed them have already died. The Ruusan Reformation is in place and slowly changing the Order and the Republic, and the Sith are believed to be extinct. There is no Clone Wars to come, no Anakin to save from Tatooine, and Yoda is just a youngling. What would James do? (or is it Taren?) — The First arc, Padawan, is finished, and the next one, Knight, began on Jul 17, 2026. Moving forward, the posting schedule will be: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5:30 pm (or 17:30) EDT (UTC-4) NO HAREM
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #21
2d
#1
8/5/2026
Peak #23
6d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#209 of 7,531 · 159 below #50
By genre
beats 95% of similar stories
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Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
At this conversion, the Action Rising Stars bar (≈8 new followers/day) costs about 641 views/day — the story currently gets ~177.
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.
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