Boba Fett : A Practical Man Boba Fett : A Practical Man is an e - novella by Karen Traviss , which was published online in Ebook format in August 2006 by Del Rey Books . It focuses on what led Boba Fett and the Mandalorians to fend off the Yuuzhan Vong invaders during the devastating Yuuzhan Vong War . The eBook contains an additional 3 - page preview of " " , a 4 - page preview of " " , a 7 - page interview with Aaron Allston , and a 9 - page interview with Karen Traviss . It is included in the paperback edition of " " . Synopsis . The story opens in the lower levels of Coruscant in 24 ABY , only a few months prior to the Yuuzhan Vong War . Boba Fett has just chased down another bounty , a Rodian art dealer who sold fake works to Gebbu the Hutt . Meanwhile on Nar Shaddaa , Nom Anor , posing under the alias Udelen , recruits a Mandalorian named Goran Beviin to assassinate a politician named Tholote B ' Leph on Ter Abbes , a grim industrial planet off the Perlemian Trade Route . Beviin quickly realizes that if the man is killed it will trigger a civil war , but even after he voices his misgivings to Fett he still carries out the mission . Nom Anor notes that Beviin did an efficient job of removing the target and plans to meet Fett for the second time on Mandalore and the capital city , Keldabe . Nom Anor notes that Mandalore is already on his list of a world that will be harder to subdue . Anor arrives on the planet , again under the alias of Udelen and provides Fett with the location of a rendezvous where he and a select number of Fett ' s troops are to meet . Anor plans to reveal his true nature to Fett as the location lies along the main invasion route the Yuuzhan Vong will take into the galaxy . As the Mandalorian fleet awaits the arrival of their client , Beviin becomes impatient and scouts around for Udelen . He soon encounters what he assumes to be an asteroid , but is actually a Yuuzhan Vong ship . Unsure of what to make of their new arrivals , the Mandalorians enter battle formation and wait . Soon though , Nom Anor makes contact with Fett and asks him to board the lead ship for a face to face meeting . Once aboard the miid ro ' ik warship Fett orders Beviin to discreetly gather any samples he can , while Fett runs scans with his helmet . While touring the ship , Anor explains the Yuuzhan Vong vision for the galaxy and how the Mandalorians will play a part in shaping it and both Fett and Beviin witness first hand the plans the Vong have for the Humans they capture . Anor then gives Fett the plans for the next mission he has planned for the Mandalorians , to secure a landing zone on Birgis , in exchange for their continued service the Mandalore sector will be left alone . Fett knows this is a lie and that the Vong will come for them eventually , and he plans to ensure he ' s ready when that day comes . Fett plans to use the inside track he now has to do as much damage to the invaders as possible ; while he appears to help them he will do all he can to hinder them at the same time . Nom Anor amends his report , now believing that enslaving the Mandalorians is the best way of dealing with them . One week after the invasion of Helska IV , the Mandalorians assault the spaceport on Birgis . Fett , Beviin and Cham , another Mandalorian warrior spearhead the assault . Fett hopes to use this moment to pass on vital intel to the New Republic . Passing the intel on to a pilot during the assault , Fett only hopes that the Republic won ' t blow their cover . Typically , the Yuuzhan Vong leave no survivors at the spaceport . New Holgha , however , the Vong ' s next target remains unevacuated , the Republic hasn ' t acted on the intel , obviously not trusting its source . With the planet´s defenses sabotaged and its troops relocated elsewhere , the world falls without a serious fight . Instead , the Republic diverted troops to Pedd 4 and now New Holgha suffers . As Fett observes a miid ro ' ik digest everything around it for fuel , he is reminded of the Sarlacc . As he contemplates a better and more reliable way to pass intel to the Republic , a Vong warrior asks him to assist in killing a Jedi . While Beviin stalls the Vong , Fett and a few others subdue the Jedi , who is skeptical at first , but then believes Fett and agrees to take the information off planet . As the Jedi leaves for his hidden ship , Beviin arrives , followed by the Vong warrior . When he asks what happened to the Jedi , Fett and the others kill him , with Beviin using his crushgaunts to kill the warrior . While the others collect samples from the dead warrior , Beviin scalps him for a trophy . Briika , a Mandalorian female warrior , is fatally wounded in the encounter and dies when she reaches " Slave I " . Beviin , keeping a promise he made to her , adopts Dinua , Briika ' s daughter as his own child . Nom Anor lays plans to accelerate the coming invasion of Mandalore , believing that the reports of the Mandalorian savagery have been greatly exaggerated . He still plans to use them , by keeping them undercover from the rest of the Vong warriors , but ultimately he plans to erase their culture from the galaxy . Fett , traveling across Mandalorian space reflects that his plan is so far working fine . The Republic believe the Mandalorians are in league with the Vong , while his own engineers are working on weapons designed specifically to fight them . Then an X - Wing drops into pursuit course , but when it makes contact through one of Fett ' s own intel nodes , he stays his trigger finger . The Jedi he saved on New Holgha , a man named Kubariet asks to meet face to face . Working with New Republic Intelligence , Kubariet confirms that Fett has a deal , the Mandalorians will continue to masquerade as Vong mercs while at the same time passing intel to the Republic . Before he leaves , Kubariet asks if Fett will spare a few of his best commandos to act as a kind of new Cuy ' val Dar to train planetary militias to fight the Vong . Kubariet gives Fett a secure datachip ; if he wants to pass on intel then he can only do it through the Jedi , in return Fett hands over ' spare parts ' he ' s collected from the Vong . When Kubariet asks if there ' s anything more he can do for him Fett tells the Jedi he was saved by Brika .