by Toom
In a digital war against the spacetime-bending Axiome, humanity relies on predictive neural overlays—except for twenty-year-old pilot Sera Kade. Flying the Black Echo manually by the thrum of her engines and a cracked-lid Sony CD Walkman, Sera's analog instincts become the fleet's secret weapon when high-tech navigation systems freeze in the turbulent gravity of the Confluence.- What to expect -I plan to post a Chapter every other day. The entire 1st and 2nd books have already been written. To me they are still considered in a draft form as every time I read a chapter I make little tweaks and adjustments here and there. What I post here will be very close to the finalized versions of each book. Right now as it sits in my writing software the 1st Book is 314 pages long at roughly 80k words and 15 Chapters. (Subject to change as I do a final pass on each Chapter before posting here)You will get to watch Sera grow as she overcomes some big challenges and some huge loses.
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Rank updated 19 Oct 2026, 21:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 19 Oct 2026, 21:48 UTC
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Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
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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 10–19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
