And when some of the Purge's crew return to their own ship, they're carrying with them something their Imperial Navy training never prepared them for.
Onboard the ship the crew is still present, but dead and unmoving, though the last part of that isn't permanent. Wanting to know what's happened - and also needing to get to the ship for the parts necessary to repair their own barely functioning vessel, a crew heads over. Strangely, the seemingly functioning ship is idle and seems nearly abandoned, with scans turning up only a few scattered lifesigns and with no response to attempts at communication. Fortunately, or so they think, the ship comes across a Star Destroyer in the near vicinity, and makes its way to it on regular engines. Set approximately two or three years before the original movie, Death Troopers sees the crew and convicts onboard the prison barge Purge stranded in deep space when their ship suddenly and inexplicably drops out of hyperspace. The elements of classic zombie horror are melded seamlessly into the Star Wars universe for a tale that will not only appeal to fans of both sources but could make a convert of a reader who's heretorfore only been into one of the two. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.I'd heard Star Wars: Death Troopers described as Dawn Of The Dead onboard an Imperial Star Destroyer more than once before reading it, and now see just how accurate the description is. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer. The Purge’s half-dozen survivors will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back-bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours, nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.
When the Imperial prison barge Purge-temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, Rebels, scoundrels, and thieves-breaks down in a distant part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting and seemingly abandoned.
“This is the Star Wars of every horror fan’s dreams-gory, funny, and brimming with a blood-spattered cast of swashbucklers and space-zombies.”-Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies The chilling tale of the undead in a galaxy far, far away.
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