Wow! I loved 'Inheritor'! Unfortunately, it is book three in C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series, which is turning out to be a series so linked in plots - in, fact, as linked as if they were actually one book - there is no way to describe the plot of the book without destroying the pleasure of reading the series. It is better advice to say start here: [b:Foreigner|57043|Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)|C.J. Cherryh|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386924617s/57043.jpg|1592031].

I can further advise the series is an acquired taste - it either appeals or it doesn't. It will be loved best, if it is loved, first by political thriller junkies who also like science fiction and complex intricate plots. There are too many characters (I wish there had been a list of characters and their family associations). The science fiction aspect is only a stage and, so far, a backstory, which the author has used to imagine what interactions very different first-contact races with different loyalties and similar ambitions would do.

Humans are the foreigners in this series, and it is humans who are disrupting and wrecking an entire planet's cultural norms. The humans' starship arrived at the planet of the Atevis five centuries earlier, and a portion of the starship's humans landed on the planet as refugees. All of the humans had become lost in space and they are desperate for a home and resources to live, much the same situation as current events, just like - dare I say it? Need I say it? Ok, then.