storm-shelters

Updated: May 24, 2025

If planters didn't make profits, who'd grow biocrystals?" "The Colonial Government. The same way they built those storm-shelters. But that would be in the public interest, and if the Kwanns weren't public-spirited enough to do the work, they'd be made to at about half what planters like Sanders are paying them now. But don't you realize that profit is sordid and dishonest and selfish?

H. Beam Piper - Oomphel in the Sky

He thought of the Colonial Government taking ten years not to build those storm-shelters. Foxx Travis was commenting on the ship, now: "I never saw that ship before; didn't know there was anything like that on the planet. Why, you could lift a whole regiment, with supplies and equipment "

H. Beam Piper - Oomphel in the Sky