
by PhilosophicallyAnnoyed
Vance Reid is not a chosen hero. He is an uncertified salvage mechanic with a leaking fission pile, a broken shoulder, and a deep, transcendental sense of spite. After his employers falsified his telemetry and left him to freeze in the Great Debris Belt, he managed to survive by doing what he does best: fixing impossible problems with bailing wire, duct tape, and stolen components.But his casual routine of illegal engineering is utterly derailed when he accidentally interfaces with an ancient, high-tier military prototype ... the Aegis Forge-Drive...π Transmission Frequency: 3 New Chapters Per Week.Logs are injected into the public network as soon as they clear the local sub-brain's diagnostics. Hit the "Follow" button to be instantly notified the second a new data-stream drops.
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, 08:38 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 08:38 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.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#6277 of 12,184 Β· 6227 below RS #50
By genre
beats 70% of similar stories
not enough data yet
needs about a week of observations
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 10β19 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.