Dolmasi

The Dolmasi are the first alien race that Granger encounters in book 2. They are a reptilian-like people that have been in thrall to the Swarm for thousands of years, but have recently discovered how to free themselves of their influence. It is never explained how they do it, but whatever method they have to subvert Swarm influence is not compatible with human anatomy.

The Dolmasi are a stern, strictly hierarchical, secretive race. Now that they are liberated from the Swarm and are enemies of it, they are not necessarily humanity’s friends. They do extend help to Granger and humanity a few times during books 2 and 3, but the main story arc of book 2 is how the Dolmasi are simply using Granger for their own secret, selfish means. They lie to him and get him to liberate their homeworld from Swarm control, making him think he is really attacking the Swarm homeworld itself. The Dolmasi only care about the Dolmasi, and as long as its interests align with humanity’s, they will extend aid.

They are vaguely reptilian, strong, very intelligent, and having been thralls to the Swarm for thousands of years are still able to make use of the meta-space link, since Swarm matter is still in their blood.

Their ships are smaller than the large human carriers and battleships, and much smaller than the vast Swarm carriers, though very powerful. A handful of Dolmasi ships is a match for a Swarm carrier. They do not deploy fighters, but their energy weapon is the exact same anti-matter beam as the Swarm’s (green, anti-boron, accompanied by high energy radiation).