There's a good mix of species in here too one of the many good things about the Expanded Universe has been its taking species who in the movies may have been represented briefly by one or two bit-part characters (such as patrons of the Mos Eisley Cantina or spectators at the pod races in Episode I) and filling out those species by letting them have characters with much larger roles. Don't get me wrong, I like having those characters too, but sometimes it's good to see the Star Wars galaxy through the eyes of some of the trillions of sentients who aren't 'big players'. I always like it when a Star Wars book picks some lead characters who aren't from the 'main groups' - Jedi, Sith, bounty hunters, emperors and princesses and the like. The book is told from several different perspectives, including an idealistic young female doctor and two teenaged smugglers who are among the lesser offenders who really don't belong on the ship among all the hardended killers and madmen being transported. And when some of the Purge's crew return to their own ship, they're carrying with them something their Imperial Navy training never prepared them for. Onboard the ship the crew is still present, but dead and unmoving, though the last part of that isn't permanent.
Wanting to know what's happened - and also needing to get to the ship for the parts necessary to repair their own barely functioning vessel, a crew heads over. Strangely, the seemingly functioning ship is idle and seems nearly abandoned, with scans turning up only a few scattered lifesigns and with no response to attempts at communication. Fortunately, or so they think, the ship comes across a Star Destroyer in the near vicinity, and makes its way to it on regular engines. Set approximately two or three years before the original movie, Death Troopers sees the crew and convicts onboard the prison barge Purge stranded in deep space when their ship suddenly and inexplicably drops out of hyperspace. The elements of classic zombie horror are melded seamlessly into the Star Wars universe for a tale that will not only appeal to fans of both sources but could make a convert of a reader who's heretorfore only been into one of the two. I'd heard Star Wars: Death Troopers described as Dawn Of The Dead onboard an Imperial Star Destroyer more than once before reading it, and now see just how accurate the description is.
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