 What kind of person is Ledman?
And that started the chain of events that led Val and me to end up as a madman's prisoners, on Mars. Project Sea-Dredge was trying to get uranium from the oceans. It's a stopgap effort, just to keep things moving until Project Sea-Dredge starts functioning. 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. A one-man Dome, of all things! He herded us off to one side of the airlock, uttered a few words keyed to his voice, and motioned us inside when the door slid up. "I never bothered to find out their names," Ledman said casually.
 He is upset and lashing out because he feels betrayed
 He is upset and lashing out because he feels betrayed  He has violent tendancies and hates his old company  He has always been a nutcase  He has been untrustworthy his whole life