Pytheas

Pytheas is a TranStar mining and research facility built on the moon. The moonbase is the main setting to Prey: Mooncrash.

Overview
The modern-day Pytheas is set in and around a crater on the moon's surface. Each of the three buildings are linked by a tram, and all four locations have an Escape Pod Bay. Overall the moon base is composed of:
 * Crater: Mining and testing site covered by a protective dome. It has access by airlock to all other locations.
 * Crew Annex: Administration offices, Trauma Center, crew habitations and services as well as the moonbase's shuttle bay for outdoor travels.
 * MoonWorks: Pyhteas's helium-3 mine, refinery and machine workshop.
 * Pytheas Labs: Typhon research facility as well as the volunteers' cells.

History
The Pytheas mining facility was founded as part of the Kletka Program in the early 60s. The original site was located deep in a crater on the Lunar pole, permanently shadowed and surrounded by kilometers of ice. Beneath Pytheas is a vast network of cramped tunnels where helium-3, hydrogen and platinum were mined for the needs of the Kletka space station.

Pytheas was taken other by the United States government along with the Kletka. Despite terrible work conditions, the mine was kept in activity as part of Project Axiom from 1964 to the 1980s. It was closed when Project Axiom was shuttered.

Pytheas was bought and refurbished by Transtar in 2025 alongside Talos I. While the mining operations continued, laboratories were established to research and test Typhon behavior in open space, as well as experiment Typhon counter weapons.

Mainly, Pytheas served as a sister research station to Talos I, providing the natural resources for Talos's Power Plant as well as a larger testing environment than the aging Psychotronics labs. Employees wishing to change workplace outside the moonbase were de facto submitted to a Neuromod removal and so memory wipe.

Trivia

 * The facility is named after Pytheas, a Greek geographer and explorer.

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Pytheas