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"He has enough to worry about now, without starting him on whether we'll do these people more harm than good." Two more landing craft had come down from the Hubert Penrose; they found Dave Questell superintending the unloading of more prefab-huts, and two were already up that had been brought down with the first landing. A name for the planet had also arrived. "Svantovit," Karl Dorver told him.
In each case, a wide oval had been burned out in the jungle, probably with heavy-duty heat guns. The camps were surrounded with stout wire-mesh fence: in each there were a number of metal prefab-huts, and an inner fenced slave-pen.
The titanium prefab-huts, set up to house the laborers and intended to be taken north with them for their stay on the polar desert, were simply wiped away. Among the wreckage, resistance was being blown out like the lights of a candelabrum. He took up the hand-phone and called HQ. "Von Schlichten; what's the wavelength of the officer in command at the equipment-park?"
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