 Why is the Geig Corps important?
THE HUNTED HEROES By ROBERT SILVERBERG The planet itself was tough enough—barren, desolate, forbidding; enough to stop the most adventurous and dedicated. But they had to run head-on against a mad genius who had a motto: Death to all Terrans! I reached over and turned up the pressure on her oxymask to make things a little easier for her. Val's usually about the best wife a guy could ask for, but when she wants to be she can be a real flying bother. Nothing but what had stopped us could stop a sandcat: sand in the delicate mechanism of the atomic engine. "Maybe there isn't any uranium in this sector at all. When Val's tired and overwrought there's no sense in arguing with her. Behind us somewhere was the comfort of the Dome, ahead nothing but the mazes and gullies of this dead world. He was a cripple in a wheelchair—helpless as a rattlesnake. My gloved hand reached out and clumsily enfolded hers. Remember—we're doing this for Earth. We're heroes." "Heroes, hell!" "That's the way it looked back home, but, out there it doesn't seem so glorious. We had wandered fruitlessly over the red sands all day, both of us listening for the clicks of the counter. And the geigers had been obstinately hushed all day, except for their constant undercurrent of meaningless noises. Even though the Martian gravity was only a fraction of Earth's, I was starting to tire, and I knew it must have been really rough on Val with her lovely but unrugged legs. "Heroes," she said bitterly. She had been just as much inflamed by the idea of coming to Mars to help in the search for uranium as I was. We knew the pay was poor, but we had felt it a sort of obligation, something we could do as individuals to keep the industries of radioactives-starved Earth going. And we'd always had a roving foot, both of us.
 It is UranCo's method of acquiring manpower for the resource search
 Val and Ron worked for them before signing up with UranCo  It is UranCo's method of acquiring manpower for the resource search  It is how Ledman got involved in the uranium project in the first place  They funded the dome that Ledman lives in