Dushau

Description for DUSHAU by Jacqueline Lichtenberg:

THE RACE OF IMMORTALS

The end of this galactic civilization was coming, Jindigar was certain of it.  Like other Dushau, his living memory spanned several thousand years, and he viewed events from a perspective few short-lived mortals could fully appreciate---or begin to understand.

He knew that when the newly crowned Emperor of the Allegiancy accused the Dushau of traitorously withholding surveys of distant planets, his real intentions were far more sinister than the execution of Jindigar and other Dushau.  the emperor's ultimate goal?  Complete and utter Genocide of all the immortals.

As a human, Krimata was fiercely loyal to the Allegiancy Empire, but in her ten years as a debriefing officer she had never met a dishonest Dushau.  She knew Jindigar was not holding back survey material, that he was no traitor.  She could not let the Emperor kill him.  But how could just one woman oppose the might of the Empire?

This is #1 in The Dushau Trilogy.