Jair

The Jairs are a sapient race from the planet Boda in High Crusade.

Physiology
The Jair are bipeds, slender and graceful, with soft gray fur their body and a white ruff around their heads. They had cat-whiskered faces and had enormous purple eyes.

History
The Jairs possess about eight millennia of history and have been a spacefaring culture for two centuries.

The Jairs were involved in a skirmish with the Wersgorix over Uloz IV. Later in 1345 they formed an alliance ith the Englishmen and various other races to overthrow the Wersgorix.

Culture
The Jairs were one of the few races that were able to stand against the Wersgor, though not completely possess power to prevent them from claiming more planets. The Jairs were a peaceful race ruled by the jair Republic that deplored warfare and refused to colonize other worlds containing other sentient life.

Source

 * High Crusade by Poul Anderson