Star Wars: 10 Most Ridiculous Stories From The Expanded Universe
8. BRAAAIIINNNSSS!
The Star Wars Expanded Universe is a breeding ground for half-baked, recycled, and uninspired stories. For every quasi decent novel or comic book, there are half a dozen others that are literal turd sandwiches.
Since George Lucas was willing to slap the Star Wars license on virtually anything and everything, in 2009 author Joe Schreiber took a run of the mill zombie story and shoehorned it into the Star Wars universe. Titled Death Troopers, the book told the story of an Imperial prison ship that broke down in uninhabited space. A derelict Star Destroyer is floating around nearby so the prison ship organizes a boarding party to scavenge for parts.
What they find aboard the seemingly abandoned star destroyer are hordes of reanimated corpses with cannibalistic tendencies. Explained to be some sort of Sith engineered virus, the zombies run amok while a handful of ragtag survivors, including Han Solo and Chewbacca (because everything interesting always involves a select few individuals) fight for survival. Even though this story takes place roughly a year prior to the original trilogy, no one ever mentions the evil Sith voodoo that turns people into nightmarish flesh eaters.