I have not run it. I'm not sure when I'll get the chance, but I plan on making characters for my 2 PC's. Then I'll have quite a selection of Morph's prepared for them when the awake on Mars.

I haven't GMed it yet, but I'm planning on making MTWMD a sequel of sort to Glory. To that end, I'm going to introduce Gray Xu as a contact NPC for the players. I want them to at least call upon her for a favor, either by locating Mason or Morteza, providing transport to some habitat they couldn't reach by egocasting The way I picture her is something like Arya T'Loak in Mass Effect 2 so when they get about her ship, in Mind the WMD, they should get the false impression that they're more or less safe Also, I believe the reason why there is TITANs stuff in the destroyed habitat is maybe someone wanted them to be found, or left them there for his or her own schemes. That would explain the second group I think the identity of the group will depend of what they did in Glory. Beside, I want them to work hand and get their hands dirty, not just giving them the information from Mesh searching. They'll get hints, not full answers intel like which habitat, and where, they'll have to find the hardest way. with both the second group and the Consortium on their trail A bit of Screamers would be a nice touch, once they reach the Zone

I'm surprised you managed to wing it with custom-built characters. Character generation is one of the more complex things in the game, I used the provided characters just to streamline the introduction to the setting (they worked well). Also, what's not convincing about a stray shot? If it's a level of force thing you could upgrade "stray shot" to "stray grenade" or "stray seeker round". Dunno, it seems unneeded, but maybe I'm just easily convinced.

I guess what bothers me about the canister being shot open is that as GM I like to have things happen with clear reasons/motivations in the background. A random/GM fiat event like the stray shot forces me and my players to have that scene where there's a huge three party firefight near the canister - not to mention that all parties involved are after the canister and would probably try their best to not damage it. As I don't want to railroad my players into that particular scene, it might well be that they get rid of the third party first and then try to steal the canister or force Gray Xu to hand it over. On the other hand it's also possible that they stir up the third party while investigating and thereby force them to make a quick move on Gray Xu. In that case the players would be chasing after them to get to the canister. Nonetheless I can see the stray shot thing happening if someone were to botch their roll during a (possible) firefight. At the moment I'm thinking of an extremely nervous Gray Xu bunkered up in her ship (because she suspects that someone is coming for the canister), who also doesn't know exactly how dangerous the nanoswarm is and who therefore is at the brink of using it against anyone trying to take it from her by force. Or maybe thats not even entirely her but the effect of some basilisk or so that comes with the canister and tries to drive transhumans to use it (kind of a One Ring-vibe). What do you think about that? Any other ideas or things to watch out for running Mind the WMD would be greatly appreciated.