question:  Why is the Geig Corps important?
context: 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. "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. 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. 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. He wore an outmoded, bulky spacesuit and a fishbowl helmet, all but the face area opaque. He was holding in his left hand the tanglegun with which he had entrapped us, and a very efficient-looking blaster was in his right. He reached for the tanglegun, flipped the little switch on its side to MELT, and shot a stream of watery fluid over our legs, keeping the blaster trained on us all the while. Earth needed radioactives, and the only way to get them was to get out and look. The great atomic wars of the late 20th Century had used up much of the supply, but the amount used to blow up half the great cities of the world hardly compared with the amount we needed to put them back together again.
output:  It is UranCo's method of acquiring manpower for the resource search
options:  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