Cargo Queen
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History
Cargo Queen, named after the eponymous Invader-class JumpShip that is at the center of the story, is a MechWarrior (RPG) adventure written in the form of an annotated short story by Hartwig Nieder-Gassel, Thomas Brendel and Frank Lenzer. It narrates how space-borne infantry from the Camerons Legion mercenary unit lie in ambush in S-7A space buses at an unspecified jump point and board the Cargo Queen when it arrives nine hours behind schedule.
However, the boarding operation runs afoul of pitfalls such as security systems, non-magnetic floors with velcro coating for zero-g operations (instead of magnetic floors that can be walked with magnetic boots), and foam guns normally used to seal pressure leaks. Although the ship is ultimately captured, only three attacking troopers from Beta squad remain while Alpha squad is killed to the last man.
At one point in the story, the JumpShip is mistakenly called "Freight Queen".
No date is provided for the story, but the timeframe can be narrowed down: The Gray Death Memory Core which was recovered in 3028 is mentioned as having been found "a few years earlier"; the story provides background information on the foam guns and velcro coating and states they were designed based on information from that memory core. Camerons Legion was wiped out in the Ronin Wars in 3034.
Canonicity
Published exclusively in an apocryphal magazine, the Cargo Queen scenario must be considered apocryphal as well.
Wunderwelten was the house magazine of FanPro, who were the German BattleTech licensee at the time of publication and later even held the complete BattleTech license. While Wunderwelten does not technically meet the current criteria for canon, its BattleTech-related content does therefore still have a claim to being an official publication under a valid license.
Other Wunderwelten Scenarios
Other BattleTech scenarios published through the Wunderwelten magazine include
- Der erste Kontakt
- Drachentrick
- Inselhüpfen
- Operation Zitadelle & Operation Striker
- Réunion
- Schwarzer Tag
- Testfall
Bibliography
- Wunderwelten issue #23, pp. 80-88