Pawn.

"The world is a piece of rotted, worm-ridden old meat, pawn. We will cleanse it with fire. I will show them what it is like to see cities die at the loss of a piece, entire races captured and utilized for projects at the whim of the User. And I will show them what it means to play this game on a global scale. We all die, pawn..." ~Dan Simmons (Carrion Comfort)