Ballad of the Starcrossed Miner
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"The Ballad of the Starcrossed Miner" is a poem from the Infocom interactive fiction game Planetfall. It appears at a critical juncture in the game's plot.
- O, they ruled the solar system
- Near ten thousand years before
- In their single starcrossed scout ships
- Mining ast'roids, spinning lore.
- Then one true courageous miner
- Spied a spaceship from the stars
- Boarded he that alien liner
- Out beyond the orb of Mars.
- Yes, that ship was filled with danger
- Mighty monsters barred his way
- Yet he solved the alien myst'ries
- Mining quite a lode that day.
- O, they ruled the solar system
- Near ten thousand years before
- 'Til one brave advent'rous spirit
- Brought that mighty ship to shore.
The ballad itself refers to another Infocom interactive fiction game, Starcross, and sets the timeline relative to that earlier title.
