 Which isn't true about the Mercurians?
The real Mercurian patriots are against it, but they are afraid to protest. The Mercurians worship him. For centuries they had lived most their lives beneath ground to escape the terrible rays of the sun. If the girl had been abducted, only Mercurians could have engineered it in the dark; and the Mercurians were a clannish lot. He had fought in the deadly little wars of the Moons of Jupiter for years, then the Universal Debacle of 3368, after that the Martian Revolution as well as dozens of skirmishes between the Federated Venusian States. "There are many of us here, Mercurians as well as Earthmen, who recognize the danger. Other Earthmen are in control of the mines and the northern plantations.
 most want a revolution
 they're peaceful people  most want a revolution  they can handle extreme heat  they can see well in the day