Briefing

"We're hauling some dihydrogen oxide — that's plain old water, for you ingrates — from the caps down to Terminus Major by road train. The hauler's worth north of a million creds. Relax, the Corp's got it insured… fifty creds each for cover. Sign here. Here. And here." — your Corp recruiter, The Core, Terminus Major

The contract. Ride the nuclear land-train Iron Maiden down the Ice Road — the desert haul from Rimewell at the polar caps, through the Saltgate relay, to the tunnel-gates of Terminus Major — guarding a convoy of water tankers. Drive it, refuel it, deliver it. Standard haulage.

The terms. You're flown out by Hopper Drone. Syndat meets you on-site, hands over the rig and a "training video," then closes the plant and flies your Hopper home once you roll out. The plant's being shut down — that's above the recruiter's pay grade, and yours. Milestone pay lands on your PDA at each stop; about 700 credits for a clean run.

The fine print. A two-kilometre rig, a road that wants you off it, a quiet passenger your drone drops at the first relay on the flight out, and a wasteland that is alive and thirsty. You probably should have read that liability waiver.

Don't ask what's in the tankers. It's water. Obviously.

Install into Foundry

Go to the Compendium tab in Foundry, the cybercore system's Install Mission button lists and imports this mission with one click.

Manual install (manifest URL)

Run it for players

Spin up a Nucleus game prefilled for this mission, table, schedule, player slots, and the right character-creation rules already set. Adjust anything before you create it.

The module presets:

Table & schedule: Foundry VTT, weekly, ~3 hours, starting Rank 0 (Ranks 0-4), 4 player slots.
Allowed races: Human, Cyborg, and Android only (enable more in the wizard if your table wants them).
Homeworlds: the Oblivion's Edge sector set (Terminus Major, Fracture, Vulture's Gate, the Iron Line, Drift, and more). Players start in Terminus Major but may hail from anywhere in the sector.
Legacies: the five Cold Booting backgrounds (Tunnel-Town Kid, Board Rat, Rig Rat, Breaker, Reaver-Wise). Sol / Standard legacies and homeworlds are switched off by default; re-enable the whole group or individual entries in the wizard.