The Starwolves series is an older four-book sci-fi set, written by Thorarinn Gunnarsson and published in 1988. As you type in the author’s name or series’s name into the search bar they won’t pop up in the suggested, you have to actually search. I learned that the Starwolves series had a general 3.8 out of 5 stars. This came as a surprise, I was enthralled by the series and thought others would be too.
Very generally, it is about an engineered race designed to defend the republic against the Union, a collection of elites controlling most human or humanoid planets. The Starwolves were designed for the job and have known nothing else, though they wish to create a civilization of their own but don’t want to abandon their post. On the Union side, the leaders of the military don’t have an evil will against the republic or the Starwolves. They want the war as an excuse to keep the falling apart human worlds and elites together as they pursue a common goal of defeating the Starwolves. It is a relief to move from the notorious the bad vs the good (and the ugly) storyline. Both sides have respectable motives. Plus, the leaders of both sides even played chess together in the “bad guys” office as they discussed the war and the Starwolf race.
An intriguing series. One of the few older sci-fi I’ve liked because they don’t write as though everything is mysterious and new and needs to be overly described and written about in slow motion. It gives interesting situations and concepts. The books are not long and well worth the time.