 Why is the Geig Corps important?
The geiger kept up a fairly steady click-pattern, but never broke into that sudden explosive tumult that meant we had found pay-dirt. The Geig Corps preferred married couples, working in teams. It's a stopgap effort, just to keep things moving until Project Sea-Dredge starts functioning. Enter the Geig Corps: volunteers out on the face of Mars, combing for its uranium deposits. For a puzzled moment I thought it was our Dome, the settlement where all of UranCo's Geig Corps were located, but another look told me that this was actually quite near us and fairly small.
 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