Hand of Mars (Starship's Mage, #2)

by Glynn Stewart

The crowd clearly didn’t move fast enough for the Scorpions, who started pushing their way forward. Amiri watched in fascination as the workers responded by being less and less willing to move, the very effort by the Scorpions to force their way through making their progress harder.

So Vaughn had done what he had to do. And when the ingrates refused to recognize the necessity of sacrifice, when they rioted or raised arms against his government… well, he did what he had to do.