"G.O.D. will _not_ destroy me. Even the Company, powerful as it is,
cannot run the risk of dropping an atomic or a hydrogen bomb on a
planet about which as little is known as this one, and that is the
only way I can be destroyed--or you either, for that matter--since we
represent an experiment that failed and which will not be attempted
again. Dickens will not try to obtain a contract--he never intended
to in the first place. He swore to me that his sole purpose in
establishing a rival concern was to thwart G.O.D. So mine of the
edenite, 8M. You must, for now that I have mined of it, you have no
other choice."