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In the context of BattleTech, the term "Vaporware" is generally used to describe a product that, although announced, fails to materialize.
- (see also: Vaporware article on Wikipedia for a loose general definition)
Known cases that have been referred to as "vaporware" by BattleTech fans include:
Contents
ComStar Sourcebook
Advertised as FASA product #1628
Black Magic Battalion
According to a MFUK publication[1], FASA announced a product called "Black Magic Battalion", presumably to be written in the fashion of previous scenario packs detailing a particular military unit.
A price list "Prices effective August 1, 1988"[2] refers to this product with product code #1623, which was later used for House Davion (The Federated Suns).
Explorer Corps Boxed Set
BattleCorps stories
BattleCorps does not usually announce publications beforehand. The exception are serialized stories and multi-part story cycles, and a number of early projects remain unfinished. In particular, these include:
Machine Nations
Originally announced as the sixth story in the Proliferation Cycle, Machine Nations was supposed to tell the story how the Capellan Confederation first obtained BattleMech technology. The story had been slated for publication circa June 2005, but it was never published. It was explained that a first draft of the story had been submitted by Loren Coleman, but was rejected for factchecking/continuity issues[3]; the story as written could not be salvaged.
On 7 May 2011 an announcement in BattleCorps' "General" news section[3] proclaimed that Machine Nations, "a title without a story", had been consigned to history and that Jason Schmetzer had written a new story named The Spider Dances to tell the Capellan Confederation's tale in the Cycle.
Finding Jardine
Blackthorne BattleForce Comics #3
Announced with the title "Sacrificial Goats" in the second issue of this comic series, the third part was never released, leaving the story arc incomplete.
References
- ↑ According to this archived posting on the CBT Forum (archived) by user 'Dark Jaguar': "I don't know if its of any interest to you (or even if its true) but the MFUK handbook stated that Fasa 1628 was a Comstar book never published and that another unpublished one was going to be called The Black Magic Battalion presumably as 1658.
- ↑ See this posting on the CBT Forum (archived) by user 'Jal Phoenix': "1658 doesn't appear anywhere on any of the order forms I have. Here the Black Magic Battalion reference for those who are interested, from an order form dated "Prices effective August 1, 1988". Note that it's number was reused for the House Davion book.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 BattleCorps news item "At Long Last... the Proliferation Cycle"