"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.
Ballad of the Starcrossed Miner
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