The Merchants of Venus, Page 4

meet the diminished challenge on our brave new world.”

  Rod stood up. ”Well, my compliments for a job well done, Jaimie. When doyou expect to go and live there yourself? You'll have to soon, won'tyou, to complete the Project Record in residence?”

  Jaimie nodded. ”About six months from now, I think. Why?”

  ”Good,” Rod exclaimed. ”We can all go together.”

  ”What are you planning to do? Volunteer?”

  ”The whole personnel staff will be going. Here's just what we need--ayoung pioneer society! We can get adequate data for future selection, abetter idea of what kind of person a colony needs at different stages ofgrowth.” Rod grinned. ”After all, your method was pretty sloppy, even ifit did work. And you sent far too many wrong people. Once we have somegood data ... anything you can do, we can do better!”