RPV

RPV (Remotely Piloted Vehicle) was never fully finished since the main programmer left for Stanford University and everyone else at FTL was fully commited to Dungeon Master.

This is what Wayne Holder says about the RPV project:
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"In short, RPV was a finished product, but didn’t ship because I stupidly thought it needed a single player mode in which the player fights the computer, and we never figured out how to add this. The Atari ST has a built-in MIDI interface, which was a fairly fast serial port at the time. There’s a MIDI In port and a MIDI out port.

We planned to include a single MIDI cable in the box and the idea was that if a friend also had a copy of the game, you could link the two computers together using the two cables; out from one, to in on the other and then repeat to close the loop. If you had a third, or a fourth copy of the game and cables, you could insert the new machines into the loop and have a 3-, or even a 4-player battle.
That was the gist of what we had working. We had many a fun evening fighting against each other using the STs in the office, but this is as far as we got."
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10000 or more boxes was made for the game but was trashed when it never got an release, David Darrow (the box art artist) did keep one box and the following scan is from his copy:

Back of the RPV box: