 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. I reached over and turned up the pressure on her oxymask to make things a little easier for her. Nothing but what had stopped us could stop a sandcat: sand in the delicate mechanism of the atomic engine. When Val's tired and overwrought there's no sense in arguing with her. "Heroes, hell!" And the geigers had been obstinately hushed all day, except for their constant undercurrent of meaningless noises. 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. The geiger kept up a fairly steady click-pattern, but never broke into that sudden explosive tumult that meant we had found pay-dirt. I stopped, slipped out of the geiger harness, and lowered myself ponderously to the ground. The Geig Corps preferred married couples, working in teams. We had no ties on Earth that couldn't be broken without much difficulty. Heroes. I was neatly bound in thin, tough, plastic tangle-cord, swathed from chin to boot-bottoms, my arms imprisoned, my feet caught. And tangle-cord is about as easy to get out of as a spider's web is for a trapped fly. It had been spun on us only a short time ago, I realized.
 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