Memoir of a Lunar Miner

Memoir of a Lunar Miner is a note in Prey: Mooncrash.

Transcript
[Excerpt from a memoir, by Nathaniel Taylor]

''Project Axiom in the 1980s. It was a time when a legion of astronauts captured the hearts of the world, flashing smiles before closing the cockpit hatch and thundering into space. ''

''Dozens of rockets a day turned every face on Earth skyward, but no one could see what was in the dark cargo compartments below. My fellow miners and I were strapped to benches, surrounded by rattling equipment we would use to stab at the heart of the moon. There was no celebrity for us, just dirty, difficult, and exceedingly dangerous work. ''

''In those days there was no pressurized dome. We tunneled in space suits, aware that even a minor accident would result in catastrophe. ''

''The stress was too much for some. At night I could hear them crying in the dark, and the smell of bootleg liquor soured the air in our barracks. ''

But by day we were hard as nails, and for every miner that died we hit back with a vengeance, cutting deeper and deeper into the moon that killed them.

The astronauts got all the glory, but it was the guys like us that made Project Axiom happen.

Location
The note can be found in a magazine next to the Mining Foreman's workstation in the Central Mine in MoonWorks.