Living Steel was a high-tech role-playing game published by Leading Edge Games and based on their Phoenix Command game system. The rules were presented first as a box set in 1987 and then republished in a single hardbound book in 1988, but they are now long out of print and their publisher defunct.
The game was notable for its highly unusual setting and (like all Phoenix Command-based games) the realism and complexity of its rules. The game background gave groups a very obvious and challenging arc of campaign goals but unfortunately the rules as published provided very little to help Games Masters in planning a campaign.
Read more about Living Steel: The Setting
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