Elemental Force.
Granite walked back to the large tent he used as a residence. There waiting for him were four other warriors, two of them female.
“Is Rockmire going to fight you?” asked the Yellow Tribe Adami with the pony tail. Mitsu Ryu was wearing all blue and carried a samurai sword on his left hip.
“Yeah, he will fight. Don’t try to help me; I want to beat him down myself.”
“Amethyst?” Mitsu asked.
“She won’t interfere.”
“What of Starbright? We will have to tangle with him sometime,” said Firefly the red Coleopterx in a hissing tone. His insect archetype had real difficulty even with Ersatz, the interstellar pidgin of the Ring of Stars, so he spoke scratchy Common through a translator attached to his vocal membrane.
“He won’t interfere either – not this time.”
“We wait until the master tells us to face him; thenwe strike.” Mitsu was leader of the group.
“You just want to have a Blademaster match with the fellow.” The blonde White Tribe female was teasing him; her name was Barbra, but they called her Ghost as she always wore white.
“I do,” said Mitsu, “but that would be no laughing matter, even given his relative youth. With his kind of luck, he almost doesn’t need skill – and he already has plenty of skill.”
“Well, so do you. I want to be around when you take him on. Imagine: the defeat and death of a living legend.”
“Kinda makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, don’t it?” said Granite sourly. “But we’re all going to be needed against thatone. He hasn’t just beaten Rockmire, remember – and his brains are stronger than his brawn.”
“And he has learned a few new tricks,” Mitsu pointed out. “Normally, not even hecould draw a straight sword faster than I could draw my curved sword, starting from the hip; but he can now summon his Starblade by oral command from its scabbard on his back.”
This series has the feel of a manga, which probably is no coincidence… 
Here is some “in-canon” material which is responsible for the editorial updates here and which may help you in your expansion of this story line…
The G’le-g’laim are felinoids who’ve been part of my fictional Realm for a very long time; I’ve just never been able to use them in a story heretofore. But their importance is measured by the fact that their home planet, Markus IV (the Common name given by its Adami first contact), was the place where the interstellar Markus IV Treaty was created and ratified. The signatory Spheres of Influence and independent star systems are called the Treaty Powers: allies of the Covenant Sphere, which partly proposed and partly imposed the Treaty.
Powers opposed to the Covenans Sphere and the Treaty Powers are naturally called Hostile Powers (the Imperial Dragonate is one). Some Powers are Neutral (the Cluster Federation is one), as are some independent planets.
The G’le-g’laim were conceived of as being natural linguists, speaking thousands of languages not due to geographical or cultural separation, but due to the sheer love of constructing languages. Their independent-mindedness figures in this tendency also. It goes without saying that they’d be predators and warriors. I thought making them specifically “Tigers” would help both your storyline and mine. So my mention of linguistic talent wasn’t “made up on the fly”.
One other thing: the Treaty standardizes things across the board on the strategic, tactical, logistic and diplomatic levels. It enables unified standards of measurement, nomenclature, trade, commerce, currency, research and development, military cooperation, religious dialogue, diplomatic immunity (particularly for Starbards Level Five), and so many other things. it is not intended to impose anything like a governmental union, however; that comes when the Covenant Sphere Annexes a star system or Power.
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