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, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. 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.
And death is only the beginning.
The Purge’s half-dozen survivors–two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board–will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
I'll happily admit, I've never been very interested in Star Wars fiction… my older brothers are into it, but nothing about the print works ever really caught my interest.
But the description of Death Troopers, and the slick trailer by 5iveby5ive Studios has certainly convinced me to give it a go… hell, being a fan of Marvel Zombies, who am I to turn my nose up at Star Wars Zombies?
Also, check out the photos of the “Death Trooper” costume at Comic Con, it's pretty cool seeing it promoting the book at the convention, and allowing you to see the work that went into it, alot of which was hidden in the shadow in it's trailer appearance.
