There was going to be an adventure scenario published in Challenge issue 78 that never saw the light of day. GDW shut down before Challenge 78 could even be sent to the printers from what I understand.
The adventure was of interest to me because it was set in Australia and concerned an effort to keep the Indian-Pacific rail link in operation (the railway is called the Indian-Pacific because it links the west coast and the east coast - the Indian Ocean coast and the Pacific Ocean coast respectively).
The Indian-Pacific is a tourist railway now but also carries people travelling to some of the rural locations it passes through. In the past, it also carried mail and other supplies to these communities (largely replaced by trucks these days).
As an Aussie, this particular scenario interested me quite a lot because it was apparently written by another Aussie and I made some inquiries with Far Future Enterprises in the late 1990s/early-2000s about its state and was told that essentially, the magazine didn't reach the printers and all the submitted articles reverted back to their respective authors.
Naturally enough, presumably for privacy reasons, I was not allowed to get the contact details of the person who wrote the Aussie scenario. To be fair though, FFE most likely didn't even have that information anyway.
However I persisted with the questions here in Australia via various internet forums and got some info but it was mostly contradictory and that basically sunk any chances of finding the author. But there were claims (well, to be brutal, they were better described as wishful thinking) that someone knew someone who knew someone who knew the author and could "probably" get a copy.
That was almost 20 years ago and still nothing has surfaced so I am inclined to think that the author was not interested in any sort of web presence and thus, the adventure has probably not been seen by more than half a dozen people, so yeah, those people who knew someone etc. etc. were probably desperately hoping to stir up the author so he'd make the adventure available to the public.
Either that or they were full of shit!
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