 What is a Mud-eater?
The ancient rule was sink or swim—swim in the miasma of a planet without spaceflight, or sink to utter destruction! I'm short, dark and scrawny, though I don't expect that scrawniness to last much longer. A planet is all right for a Mud-eater, but not for me. Considering how short a time it was in which the colonies were established, there was not time to set up industry, so they had to have draft animals. I don't know how many of those planets had animals that could have been substituted but, even if they had, they would have had to be domesticated from scratch. That much water makes me nervous, and roads have to go somewhere.
 A derogatory term for a person who lives on a planet, instead of in space
 A derogatory term for a farmer  A derogatory term for a person who lives on a planet, instead of in space  A derogatory term for a person whose job it is to herd Losels  A derogatory term for a person who breeds without restraint