Star Wars - Death Troopers
In the time immediately following the destruction of the Death Star and the years between the Battle of Yavin and the foundation of the Rebel Base on Hoth, the Empire's grip on the galaxy has become an unyielding fist of retribution. Pressed into action by Emperor Palpatine, Imperial forces have stepped up efforts to hunt down and imprison Rebel sympathizers, shipping them off to newly formed detainment moons via huge prison barges. By necessity these barges are floating chambers of degradation and vice, notoriously unreliable spacecraft staffed by Imperial corrections officers whose cruelty rivals that of the inmates. The Imperial Prison Barge Virtue is hauling its load of prisoners, criminals and murderers, human and non-human, across the galaxy, when it breaks down in deep space. Soon after, the ship's warden discovers a derelict Star Destroyer, seemingly abandoned, and sends a boarding party to scavenge parts to repair the Virtue. Half of them don't come back. The ones that do are infected with a virus so deadly that within hours, it has wiped out ninety-nine percent of the barge's population. But for the handful of survivors -- two brothers, the Virtue's female chief medical officer, and a sadistic captain of the guards, along with a certain rogue smuggler and his Wookiee sidekick - the true horror is just begun. Because those inmates and guards who died of the virus don't stay dead...and when they come back, they're extremely hungry. Against their better judgment, the survivors take refuge aboard the massive creaking emptiness of the Destroyer, only to discover that its original population has not disappeared at all -- and that they've been waiting for them.
265 pages, 9 editions
English edition · First published 2009 by Arrow · ISBN 9780099542889
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Editions
9 editions
English
- Star Wars - Death Troopers · Arrow · 2009 · ISBN 9780099542889 · 1 reader This page
- Star Wars: Death Troopers · Del Rey · 2022 · ISBN 9780593497067
- Star Wars - Maul - Lockdown · Arrow Books · 2014 · ISBN 9780099542964
- Star Wars: Death Troopers · Random House · 2011 · ISBN 9781446441275
- Star Wars: Death Troopers · Del Rey · 2010 · ISBN 9780345520814
- Star Wars · Random House Audio · 2010 · ISBN 9780307879356
- Star Wars: Death Troopers · Del Rey/Ballantine Books · 2009 · ISBN 9780345509628
French
- Star Wars - Death Troopers · Univers Poche · 2016 · ISBN 9782823850871
German
- Star Wars - Darth Maul: In Eisen · Blanvalet · 2014 · ISBN 9783442269839
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