General Farok
Spacing Guild Mining Units
"Following the abolition of thinking machines in the Butlerian Jihad, the work and the risk of mining again returned to human hands for the first time since the late 21st century. With immensely powerful cutting lasers and hard vacuum added to the already existing dangers of heavy rock and heavy machinery, the lives of asteroid mining unit operators were particularly hazardous, and many lie forever entombed inside the husks of the asteroids they gave their lives to despoil."
- from Mine: A History
Spacing Guild Mining Units
"Following the abolition of thinking machines in the Butlerian Jihad, the work and the risk of mining again returned to human hands for the first time since the late 21st century. With immensely powerful cutting lasers and hard vacuum added to the already existing dangers of heavy rock and heavy machinery, the lives of asteroid mining unit operators were particularly hazardous, and many lie forever entombed inside the husks of the asteroids they gave their lives to despoil."
- from Mine: A History