Clan Detta

"Cham, get her to her fighter or whatever's still flying, and see her past the Vong. If there's nothing airworthy on the strip, purge your Gladiator's security data and give her the keys. I'll buy you a new one." "Better make it look like we're pursuing her, then. And I'll be wanting a yellow one to match my plates this time. Custom job."

- Boba Fett and Cham Detta, getting a New Republic pilot to safety during the Yuuzhan Vong's attack on Birgis

Clan Detta was a Mandalorian clan in existence prior to the start of the Yuuzhan Vong War. During the extra-galactic aliens' invasion of the known galaxy, the brothers Cham and Suvar Detta fought alongside Mand'alor Boba Fett as Mandalorian Protectors. The two brothers were among the squadron of Mandalorian starships to witness the Yuuzhan Vong's entrance to the galaxy in 25 ABY, and aided Fett in legitimizing the appearance of the Mandalorians working for the Yuuzhan Vong by covertly assaulting the starport at Birgis. In reality, the Mandalorians were acting as double-agents against the Yuuzhan Vong, and Cham Detta was ordered to get a local pilot offworld under the cover of a false pursuit, in order to allow her to deliver the intelligence the Mandalorians had gathered back to the New Republic.

Three months into the war, both Suvar and Cham Detta took part in the Battle of New Holgha. There, the Mandalorians were confronted with an opportunity to rescue a Jedi Knight from the Yuuzhan Vong, who in turn could pass along their intelligence to the New Republic and verify its authenticity; the previous attempt to turn over intelligence had been ignored due to the belief that the hostile Mandalorians were attempting to spread misinformation. Aiding the Jedi known as Kubariet, the Mandalorians were forced into a skirmish with the Yuuzhan Vong subaltern, Bur'lorr. The Detta brothers engaged the Yuuzhan Vong warrior in a close-quarters fight together with the other Mandalorians, and it was Suvar who decapitated the warrior's serpentine amphistaff. Though the Yuuzhan Vong was killed at the crushgaunt-covered hands of of their comrade Goran Beviin, their fellow Mandalorian Briika Jeban had been severely wounded by one of the warrior's armor spikes. When her daughter, Dinua, attempted to remove her armor plates to get a better look at the injury, it was Cham who warned that her armor may have been supporting the wound and recommended taking her to Boba Fett's ship, Slave I, for medical aid. Unfortunately, though Cham's advice was heeded, Jeban perished aboard Slave I due to blood loss.

More than a decade later, in 41 ABY, Cham Detta had become the bartender of the Oyu'baat tapcaf in Keldabe, Mandalore's capital city.

Behind the scenes
Clan Detta was first introduced into Star Wars canon via the appearance of the Detta brothers, Cham and Suvar, in the 2006 e-novella Boba Fett: A Practical Man, by author Karen Traviss. Cham Detta made another appearance in Traviss' later novel, Revelation, published February 26, 2008.

Appearances

 * Boba Fett: A Practical Man
 * Revelation