Scat (Scat's Universe, Book 1)

It has taken Sebastian Scatkiewicz 7 years to get his life back together again after the US Marines dumped him onto a world of mass unemployment.
He's finally gotten himself some well-paid work on one of the New Worlds in the Outer-Rim, hundreds of light years away from an over-populated, climatically-challenged and resource-poor Earth. Now he's building a new life for himself; something he wants to protect.

Only nothing in the Outer-Rim is as the brochure says. The company's mandate to rule is under threat; the 3rd generation residents are agitating for independence; and the day-to-day politics is both muddy and murderous. Scat keeps his head down; these are things best left to the locals. He's going to stay neutral. This isn't his fight.

If only someone would listen.