The Asteroid Heist

Additionally, whenever a corporation started tearing up a planet that supported life, or could possibly support life in a million years, all sorts of hippie-dippie groups came pouring out of the patchouli-soaked woodwork to protest. Mylligan’s Rock was well named, having been formed from the hollowed-out moon of a planet which had exploded an epoch ago. It had to be done this way, otherwise all sorts of genetic redundancies would begin popping up in future generations of humans. “Get the fucking jammer up there! The money would go into successive smaller accounts, which would then be emptied into another account and closed, until they were all finally dumped into cloned numbered accounts held by a few disreputable banks on the fringes of Alliance space.