Ground Zero - Kindle Edition.
Message:Fred, it's worth picking up the Kindle edition of Battle Born: Free Style Role play.
It's the "4th Edition" (the original pamphlet with the PDF scan sold on Drive Thru) is the 1st edition. The Space Gamer issue 1 has some minor rules tweaks (some changes to Combat Skills) and is the 2nd edition. An earlier version of this website in the "Digital Magazine" days kept the Space Gamer rule set but expanded the background material - the 3rd edition.
The Kindle version contains the 2nd/3rd edition rules and extended background, incorporates some additional material from the very old "Newsletter of Free-Style Role Play," and a little bit of material from the paper version of the magazine and adds in a bunch more background material, including the complete rule set for "Ground Zero."
Ground Zero was squad level combat and debuted at an LA Convention as an invitational event and represented a multi squad assault on the Kro stronghold of Iota Upsilon. I forget exactly how many squads went KIA (30-something?), but the Tetra League sold the Battle Born out that day... A peace treaty was signed ending hostilities if the Battle Born were decommissioned. The G/Sol were sent in to smack down the Battle Born, a frantic retreat was made to evacuate at the North Polar Skyhook, and civil war broke out...
Which was promptly ignored by Red and Conrad in subsequent convention games.
Anyways, the Ground Zero rules were briefly available as a browser game here and are in the Kindle edition.
Incidentally, if you look at "A Galaxy Primer for Era Ten" on Drivethrurpg the cover art represents the G/Sol attempting to prevent the Battle Born from making the sky hook. The blue guys are G-Sol in Duro Armor. The red guys are Sarge and the Boys. Rocky is the featured Cruz foreground-right. The cover artist (me) knows exactly what he depicted...
I've kinda been working on "Access Data Files: The Complete Classic Era Ten" as a personal project (integrating all the original Era Ten material into a single unified volume - an "Omnibus," if you like), but that hard drive happens to be one of the ones in storage in Cali waiting shipment.
There are a few scattered articles with Era Ten stuff in the paper editions of Space Gamer. Notably, Issue 7 ("Villains Finish First" on the cover) contains an article with several Suit functions that don't appear in other volumes. I'm the guy who wrote them and Red gave me a solo article credit rather than integrate them into G/Sol in issue 5. I think Red might have forgotten about them, but they are published by Better Games in one of their products, so they're official material, dammit!
Yours,
IronMike
14-Nov-2022