Author Topic: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
The2ndQuest  40225 posts
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Date Posted: 10/1 10:27pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed) - Date Edited: 10/1 10:55pm (13 edits total) Edited By: The2ndQuest
Star Wars
Death Troopers

Joe Schreiber
Hardcover, 288 pages

October 13, 2009



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.



Watch the Finalists for the Fan-Made Death Troopers Trailer Competition HERE

Read the "Recovered Messages From Purge" on these sites:

Put Together Joe Schreiber's Death Troopers Soundtrack Playlist:

  • 20th Century Fox Fanfare - John Williams
  • 30 Days in the Hole - Gov't Mule
  • Call Me Number 5 - Paul Weller
  • The Shining Opening Theme (Boarding the Destroyer) - Wendy Carlos
  • Gouge Away - The Pixies
  • Death and All His Friends - Coldplay
  • Superbeast - Rob Zombie
  • The Outsider - Perfect Circle
  • Made of Scars - Stone Sour
  • Fall to Pieces - Velvet Revolver
  • Emergency Exit - Beck
  • Hurt - Johnny Cash
  • This is the Sea - The Waterboys
  • Please Read the Letter - Alison Krauss/Robert Plant


Also it seems a Stormtrooper has been leaving messages on Twitter as well.

 

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tjace  707 posts
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Date Posted: 10/1 10:39pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
188 pages? Seriously, Del Ray? tired

 

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The2ndQuest  40225 posts
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Date Posted: 10/1 10:43pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
That was my typo- it's 288 pages.

 

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whateveritis12  335 posts
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Date Posted: 10/1 11:32pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Is that Jedi just something that they put on for the Galaxies poster or is that going to be in the book?

 

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Zorrixor  4364 posts
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Date Posted: 10/1 11:40pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Well, as it's an Imperial Dungeon Ship and it's called Purge, I'm hazarding a guess that the mad scientist may be screwing with imprisoned Jedi.

 

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killfire  1823 posts
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Date Posted: 10/1 11:55pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Where is Super Trooper on that playlist?

 

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Nobody145  2171 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 12:04am Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
I'm still surprised they made a Star Wars horror novel, even though so far it sounds and looks like just a typical horror/zombie novel/movie. Oh well, at least its not part of the FotJ stupidity (had more than enough of that already), and hopefully it'll be competently written (or better). Funny to see something with a Star Wars Galaxies symbol though, as it sorta seems like they're already gearing up for the Old Republic (with how they shut down some Galaxy servers recently). Here's hoping its a good novel (and at least its the right month for this kind of thing).

 

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Grey1  1723 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 5:25am Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
I wanted to wait for the PB, but right now I'm wondering if I shouldn't just get it over with while the hype is still warm, maybe it'll be more fun that way. I haven't read a SW book in ages, and I even started to neglect Rebel Force and the Digest comics which I both intend to collect. Maybe just for the fun of it...

...but I'm still not sure if it will be worth it.

Zorrixor posted:
Well, as it's an Imperial Dungeon Ship and it's called Purge, I'm hazarding a guess that the mad scientist may be screwing with imprisoned Jedi.
The default Galaxies character is hot blue Twi'Lek Jedi (you know, all that "if I'm playing this game for hours no way I'm gonna look at a male PANTS all the time"), so I guess it probably isn't taken from the novel.

Nobody145 posted:
Funny to see something with a Star Wars Galaxies symbol though, as it sorta seems like they're already gearing up for the Old Republic (with how they shut down some Galaxy servers recently).
Now that you mention it, this novel is in serious danger of falling into the Ruins Of Dantooine category. Without even remotely being as boring.

killfire posted:
Where is Super Trooper on that playlist?
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Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out how Coldplay's epic emotional outburst will fit into a zombie horror context. OK, they did ZombAid, but that was a bit different than combining "I don't want a battle from beginning to end" with Star Wars.

 

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dp4m  36469 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 1:00pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Dramatis Personae

Aur Myss; prisoner (Delphanian male)
Jareth Sartoris; captain of the guard, Imperial Prison Barge Purge (human male)
Kale Longo; teen prisoner (human male)
Trig Longo; teen prisoner (human male)
Waste; 2-1B Surgical Droid
Zahara Cody; chief medical officer, Imperial Prison Barge Purge (human female)

(any/all errors mine)

 

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Zorrixor  4364 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 1:19pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Ohh, no Han or Chewie on the DP, good, good. Maybe they're just marketing cameos after all.

 

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blackmyron  2524 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 2:28pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
There better be a game based off this...

 

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Barriss_Coffee  5788 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 3:37pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
blackmyron posted:
There better be a game based off this...


Dark Forces: Death Troopers, starring Kyle Katarn, a Bryar, and a whole lot of zombies.

 

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Darth_Zandalor  211 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 7:25pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
Grey1 posted:
I wanted to wait for the PB, but right now I'm wondering if I shouldn't just get it over with while the hype is still warm, maybe it'll be more fun that way. I haven't read a SW book in ages, and I even started to neglect Rebel Force and the Digest comics which I both intend to collect. Maybe just for the fun of it...

...but I'm still not sure if it will be worth it.

Zorrixor posted:
Well, as it's an Imperial Dungeon Ship and it's called Purge, I'm hazarding a guess that the mad scientist may be screwing with imprisoned Jedi.
The default Galaxies character is hot blue Twi'Lek Jedi (you know, all that "if I'm playing this game for hours no way I'm gonna look at a male PANTS all the time"), so I guess it probably isn't taken from the novel.

Nobody145 posted:
Funny to see something with a Star Wars Galaxies symbol though, as it sorta seems like they're already gearing up for the Old Republic (with how they shut down some Galaxy servers recently).
Now that you mention it, this novel is in serious danger of falling into the Ruins Of Dantooine category. Without even remotely being as boring.

killfire posted:
Where is Super Trooper on that playlist?
laugh dancing cry silly

whistling

Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out how Coldplay's epic emotional outburst will fit into a zombie horror context. OK, they did ZombAid, but that was a bit different than combining "I don't want a battle from beginning to end" with Star Wars.


ZombAid was pure win, that was so hilarious. I laughed so hard when they were pointing out famous rockers turned zombie, like Paul Mccartney, etc.

I hope this book doesn't suck

 

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The2ndQuest  40225 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 7:38pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed) - Date Edited: 10/2 7:41pm (1 edits total) Edited By: The2ndQuest
blackmyron posted:
There better be a game based off this...


There sorta is already with the aforementioned SW Galaxies tie-in.



...which suddeny makes me think that's exactly what SWG should be repurposed into after TOR is launched: a framework game to launch interactive instances/quests/areas tying into novel and comic releases.

Let TOR be the MMO game experience, while SWG let's you play missions absed on Deathtroopers, Hand of Judgement, etc or explore areas mentioned in FOTJ, etc...

 

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JediMatteus  720 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 7:47pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
FotJ stupidity

i think FOTJ is awesome

 

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DarkEagle  126 posts
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Date Posted: 10/2 8:44pm Subject: The Official Death Troopers Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)
dp4m posted:
Dramatis Personae

Waste; 2-1B Surgical Droid



laugh Sweet

 

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