Stronghold Rising (Sholan Alliance Series #6)

The sixth book in Lisanne Norman's Sholan Alliance long-running science fiction series of alien contact and interspecies conflict

The Primes are the upper class of the original Valtegan home world, pacifistic intellectuals who are unable to defend themselves from either their own warrior class—the Valtegans who have been making war on the entire galaxy—or any other species. To protect themselves, the Primes have made secret alliances with other races while concealing their own true identitie...