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we're organizing."

"What? Another one?"

His father nodded, grinning. "Koshchei Exploitation & Development; we've
made application already. We can't claim exclusive rights to the whole
planet, like the old interstellar exploration companies did before the
War, but since you're the only people on the planet, we can come pretty
close to it by detail." He was looking to one side, at the other screen.
"Great Ghu, Conn! This place of yours all[Pg 114] together beats
everything I ever dug, Force Command and Barathrum Spaceport included.
How big would you say it is? More than ten miles in radius?"

"About five or six. Ten or twelve miles across."

"That's all right, then. We'll just claim the building you're in, now,
and the usual ten-mile radius, the same as at Force Command. We'll claim