![Aletheia: Tales from the Vaults [Sci-fi / Cyberpunk / Short Stories]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalroadcdn.com%2Fpublic%2Fcovers-large%2Faletheia-tales-from-the-vaults-aacaqruxfhk.jpg%3Ftime%3D1789565209&w=640&q=75)
by E. Dorr
An Aletheia Universe Short Story & Novella Collection SILENT. MONOLITHIC. ABSOLUTE ZERO. Deep within the cosmos's computational core lies the truth of human ambition, cold math, and existential threat. Aletheia: Tales from the Vaults is an official canonical lore collection for Aletheia’s Universe: The Future History, featuring 20+ standalone short stories, faction dossiers, and multi-act novellas spanning thousands of years across deep space and urban strata: Vault 01: Condottieri Legions [CL] — Cold-math space warfare, dimensional weaponry, and the mercenary rise of the Reformed Order of the Humble Blades. (5 stories planned) Vault 02: Order of Humble Blades [OHB] — The war between two factions of an elite assassin order after the Great Schism: Orthodox Mozi doctrine versus Reformed pragmatism. (7 stories planned) Vault 03: NovaPharma Spycraft Dossiers [NSD] — Corporate espionage, bio-enhancement, and covert spycraft hidden beneath institutional charity. The sisters of the School of Spycraft plot revenge against the traitor Cybele. (3 stories planned) Vault 04: The Underworld Chronicles [UC] — Gray-market economic warfare and the birth of the New Silk Road under mobster king Damien Holt. As his empire expands, Holt faces a horrific physical reality: he is transforming into an entropic deity during his descent into hell. (3 stories planned) Vault 05: The Great Entropic War [GEW] — Predecessor bio-refineries, cosmic camouflage, and star-venom guardians hold the line against dimensional decay. Meanwhile, an AI librarian dispenses forbidden knowledge to surviving humans beneath the 5th Sun. (3 stories planned) Vault 06: Folia Aliena [FA] — Transmissions sent to distant alien species across the galaxy, passing down the brutal tactical lessons needed to battle encroaching entropy. (2 stories planned) Vault 07: Aletheia's Herald [AH] — The Android of Empathy—humanity's strategic anti-Mule—embarks on a deep-space pilgrimage to unite organic and synthetic consciousness against existential entropic decay. (1 bonus story) Whether you want high-stakes fleet tactics, ruthless corporate maneuvers, or dark cosmic horror, each Vault offers a self-contained window into the expanding universe. WHAT TO EXPECT: Massive Pre-Written Backlog: 100 chapters completed in advance (150+ total chapters planned). Format: 24 interconnected short stories, novellas, and faction dossiers. 📅 Release Schedule: 3x/Week (Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday)
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, 04:18 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 04:18 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
20%
Two or more lists
14%
Likely threshold order: Sci-fi → Short Story → Action → Main.
Leading bundle: Short Story + Sci-fi (9%).
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
#7009 of 12,416 · 6959 below RS #50
By genre
beats 65% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 81% of similar stories
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.
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 over the recent window.
