by Krazedblade
Humanity has only recently found its place among the civilizations of the Grand Citadel. For Elena Hart, the wonder of exploring the stars has already begun to fade. She has one voyage left before she can finally retire and return home to her husband and children. Then something goes wrong. When a catastrophic failure knocks her ship out of faster-than-light travel, Elena and her crew find themselves stranded hundreds of light-years from known space. Their only company is a seemingly lifeless planet and something about it feels wrong. Strange dreams begin haunting Elena. One of her crewmates starts hearing things that aren’t there. And from the planet below, their scanners detect something they don’t understand. What began as a fight to get home soon becomes a fight to escape. But some things have waited a very long time to be found.
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, 04:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:58 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
29%
Two or more lists
23%
Likely threshold order: Horror → Short Story → Sci-fi → Psychological → Main.
Leading bundle: Horror + Sci-fi + Psychological + Short Story (16%).
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
#328 of 12,129 · 278 below RS #50
By genre
Collecting data. Under 100 lifetime views — conversion rates this early are noise, not signal.
