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I'm actually quite tired of all the hype Zombies have recieved in the past few years but I actually ended up liking this story. It had just enough Star Wars in it for me in order to sit down and enjoy it. A prequel story will be released about a year from now with more details on the backstory.

Here's the thing though, I borrowed this book from my brother. While I did like the book it was not one that I would shell out extra cash for to get it in hardcover if I had the option. So I do recommend either borrowing this book if possible or waiting until it comes out in paperback. Now if you really like zombie stories or prefer hardcover books then maybe sample a chapter in the store before you spend the extra money.

A few notes that could be considered spoilers.
Spoiler Has anyone else read this book yet?

I'm reading ut but haven't gotten very far. It is well written.

haven't read it, but Star Wars Galaxies already has a whole quest line for it on Dathomir, complete with a painting and a suit of messed up stormtrooper armour (which astonishingly for new armour SOE put in, actually has crap stats! but that's prolly only cause of the whole "appearance item" thing they got going on.)

I thought about picking it up, but I'm averse to hardcover unless its proven to be good or by an author I know I'd like.

Is it me or is Star Wars slipping back into the "fantasy" realm more. I mean, zombies?

Connor MacLeod wrote:Is it me or is Star Wars slipping back into the "fantasy" realm more. I mean, zombies?

I thought this was supposed to be more of a horror story. Is it written that way?

Star Wars was solidly in the fantasy realm from day one. I might pick this up, looks like a goof.

Jade Owl wrote:

Connor MacLeod wrote:Is it me or is Star Wars slipping back into the "fantasy" realm more. I mean, zombies?

I thought this was supposed to be more of a horror story. Is it written that way?

I'd say so.

It's actually pretty decent as a horror novel. The whole 'Star Wars Zombies!' thing is actually pulled off pretty intelligently so far. The zombies don't even start showing up until more than halfway through the book.

I'm not finished with it yet but so far:

1.) No scene where stormtroopers with personal body armor and energy weapons are overrun by shamblers* Spoiler 2.) It isn't the usual thing where the zombie virus only spreads through bites. It starts as an extremely fast spreading virus with a lethality a bit over 99%.
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heh. Sounds like the Flood invaded SW

Edit: As for my comments on the "fantasy" thing.. no SW seems to have gone more in the "sci fi" direction with alot of things (although I admit the diff between fantasy and scifi can be obscure at times.) Having Space Zombies doesnt bother me much as long as it doesnt turn out to be some pan-galactic threat (then again that could just be my 40K indoctrination talking.)

Connor MacLeod wrote: Having Space Zombies doesnt bother me much as long as it doesnt turn out to be some pan-galactic threat (then again that could just be my 40K indoctrination talking.)

As it is depicted in the book it is decidedly not a pan-galactic threat, although the Empire intended it to be a widely used biological weapon.

Does it actually make sense as a weapon given the details?

Patroklos wrote:Does it actually make sense as a weapon given the details?

It appears to be relatively easy to develop an anti virus, some people are naturally immune, and the result leads to corpses being reanimated out of control with the ability to learn and learn fast and a hunger for living flesh. If it ever made sense, other factors quickly ensured that it wouldn't make sense for long.

At least it sounds like it makes more sense than that "Project Starscream" from those god-awful children's horror books.

"Hologram Fun World" :rolleyes:

God, I need to stop visiting this site. Every day I discover something about the EU that makes me want to vomit.

Patroklos wrote:"Hologram Fun World" :rolleyes:

God, I need to stop visiting this site. Every day I discover something about the EU that makes me want to vomit.

What is wrong with that? I mean yeah the name is lame, but you don't think that holograms wouldn't be an integral part of entertainment?

What drives me crazy is that they have high quality holograms but they restrict the quality on their military holograms to static laden, blue monotone interlaced, low quality images. Practically, it makes no difference to the efficacy of communications, but it's still annoying.

Vympel wrote:What drives me crazy is that they have high quality holograms but they restrict the quality on their military holograms to static laden, blue monotone interlaced, low quality images. Practically, it makes no difference to the efficacy of communications, but it's still annoying.

High quality holograms on a planet dedicated to entertainment. The simplest explanation is that the output is related to size/power/complexity and as such get dumped to the bottom of the Imperial Navy's list of priorities.

Vympel wrote:What drives me crazy is that they have high quality holograms but they restrict the quality on their military holograms to static laden, blue monotone interlaced, low quality images. Practically, it makes no difference to the efficacy of communications, but it's still annoying.

Military equipment are built to be robust and more importantly, in this case, long range.

Warning: post contains spoilers.

I thought it was a decent read. I didn't like the short chapters - I felt it could have easily been longer; setting things up aboard the Purge instead of the brief look we got and more of an examination of the derelict Star Destroyer before everything goes to Hell, maybe some more survival horror.

I'm not certain I liked the inclusion of Spoiler It takes time away from the original characters and you know without any trace of a doubt that they're going to make it out all right, so there's no suspense. I really did like it when Spoiler . The scene where he 'hears' the virus whispering to him, telling him to kill and eat as the "true songs of life" tell him was very eerie and characterizes the infection very well. The scene on the Star Destroyer where the Purge infected start screaming, calling to the others on the larger ship and waking them was, I thought, rather chilling.
Spoiler was another 'ah, hell' moment, especially when it showed up again on the Star Destroyer's bridge, to let in its 'family'.

Also, technically-minded people should like how easily an understaffed prison barge was able to Spoiler , which they'd never encountered before. I was bugged by the referrals to a Star Destroyer having only 8-10,000 crew; I thought the last numbers were 30,000 crew, 10,000 stormtroopers? Those were the only things that really bugged me about the book.
Spoiler Anyways, that's my take on Death Troopers. Good concept, some small issues with the execution but a decent read.

Vympel wrote:What drives me crazy is that they have high quality holograms but they restrict the quality on their military holograms to static laden, blue monotone interlaced, low quality images. Practically, it makes no difference to the efficacy of communications, but it's still annoying.

In fairness, I understand a number of military applications IRL still use monotone green-on-black text. The real bug is that Palpatine's office doesn't use high quality holograms. You'd think it would.

I liked that: Spoiler Also: Spoiler Plus: Spoiler