The Purge's onboard computer informs Cody that there are also two survivors in isolation, and Cody leaves the medibay to release them and administer an antidote synthesized from her blood by the incumbent 21B medical droid 'Waste'. When a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back, bringing with them a contagion so lethal that within hours, almost all aboard the Purge are dead – the half-dozen survivors include two teenage brothers, Kale and Trig Longo, the ruthless captain of the guards, Jareth Sartoris, and chief medical officer, Zahara Cody, all of whom seem to possess natural immunity. Its only hope appears to lie with the Star Destroyer Vector, drifting nearby, derelict and seemingly abandoned. The Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space. On September 22, 2010, Ballantine Books revealed the cover of the prequel novel, also by Schreiber, called Red Harvest. It was heavily featured in the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies with SOE confirming a full page of information and advertisements of the game in the book. Released on October 13, 2009, Death Troopers is set just before the events shown in A New Hope. The novel is the first Star Wars horror story since the Galaxy of Fear series, released in the late 1990s. Schreiber's idea was to create a horror story in the Star Wars universe that pulled from horror movies he enjoyed such as The Shining and Alien. Death Troopers is a Star Wars novel written by Joe Schreiber.

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