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by Jeremy W Recupero
sudo echo synopsis Whoever Shushi Imo was before the crash has completely eluded her. Her last and haziest memory is set aboard an extremely high security prison ship just moments before being jettisoned out toward a distant rimworld. Her two unlikely allies? A catgirl stuck in a rumsuit that constantly churns out liquor, and a demon with the size and strength of a bus who she fears might turn her into pulp at a moment's notice. Everything that came before is a complete mystery, and everything that comes next will be bitter and hard-fought. All she has left is the terminal chip implanted in her brain running an ancient Linux Operating System that she can still commune with, and the horrible, strange outfit she's still wearing for some reason... • System and setting based on the game RimWorld. • A futuristic universe that still hosts tribes and ancient tech. • A smart female lead with a hidden past. • Strange, strange oddities in a post-modern society that finds most of their inhibitions left in the past; genetic mutations have made humanity unrecognizable. • Who knows what else this rim may be holding...?
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 8 Oct 2026, 02:08 UTC
Entry forecast updated 8 Oct 2026, 02:08 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
18%
Two or more lists
12%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Drama → Adventure → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Drama + Sci-fi (6%).
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
#1768 of 4,202 · 1718 below RS #50
The trajectory chart appears once there are a few scoring runs.
By genre
beats 85% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 21% 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 5–9 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.