by Jenni Emm
If you'd like to read the prequel, check out a sample right here: Gateway to Ancient Mars, and read the full 138k-word novel for FREE on Kindle Unlimited THEY THOUGHT THEY'D MADE IT HOME. THEY WERE WRONG. Mia and ten other survivors escaped a deadly colonization mission gone wrong, believing the nightmare was finally over. That's the official story. The truth is something, stranger. Earth isn't the world they remember. Humanity now bears the wings of an ancient civilization, history has been rewritten, and the futuristic humans don't seem to realize anything has changed. As the teenagers search for answers, every clue points to the impossible. A New Earth colonized by Mars. But then they find it. A second portal. A gateway hidden beneath the waterfalls. Beyond it lies another chance at Merrick—a world thrown back in time, divided by rival factions, and preparing its children for a conflict no one is expected to survive. THEY CHANGED HISTORY ONCE. THIS TIME, HISTORY IS READY TO FIGHT BACK! What to Expect: Female Lead + Multiple POV Science Fantasy / Portal Magic / First Contact / Slow-Burn Romance If you're looking for something outside LitRPG and want a fresh Science Fantasy crossover, jump on board. We're headed to Mars 2.0! Posting Schedule Wednesdays · Sundays
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One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 07:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 07:08 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
8%
Two or more lists
3%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Mystery → Main.
Leading bundle: Sci-fi (5%).
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
#3668 of 12,163 · 3618 below RS #50
By genre
beats 18% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 6% of similar stories
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.
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