Blackwing undead (Death Troopers)
Death Troopers brought the zombie outbreak into the Star Wars universe. A boarding party carries an engineered virus from a silent warship back to a prison barge, and the dead rise. The novel is set just before the first Star Wars film.1
- gunfire
- distance from the virus's source, according to one character's theory
When did it first appear?
2009Released 2009
What the sources say
The outbreak begins on the derelict Star Destroyer Vector and spreads to a prison barge1
Some 8,000 crew of the Vector are infected1
The dead try to leave the ship to carry the contagion further1
Han Solo and Chewbacca appear as prisoners1
The first Star Wars horror novel since the Galaxy of Fear series; a prequel, Red Harvest, followed1
The Blackwing virus later entered Disney-era canon through a mobile game1
Sources
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Same era: 2000 to 2009
Zombies of World War Z (novel)World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006)
InferiHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
Solanum zombies (The Zombie Survival Guide)The Zombie Survival Guide (2003)
Zombies of Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesPride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009)
PhonersCell (2006)
The grown-ups of The EnemyThe Enemy (2009)