Okay, so it's not exactly a part of The Old Republic MMO tie-ins, but Red Harvest is set within that era. Horror author Joe Schrieber made his second debut in the Star Wars galaxy in 2010. This is a book about zombies, just like he did in Death Troopers. Yeah, A zombie novel. How pathetic and boring and unoriginal. This is the nth version of a zombie-like incident happening within this galaxy. Schrieber could've done better. Synopsis: The era of the Old Republic is a dark and dangerous time, as Jedi Knights valiantly battle the Sith Lords and their ruthless armies. But the Sith have disturbing plans—and none more so than the fulfillment of Darth Scabrous’s fanatical dream, which is about to become nightmarish reality. Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corps—young Jedi whose abilities have not proved up to snuff—Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force
talent: a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among
greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of
an emissary from Darth Scabrous. For the rare black orchid that she has
nurtured and bonded with is the final ingredient in an ancient Sith
formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire. But at the heart of the formula is a never-before-seen virus
that’s worse than fatal—it doesn’t just kill, it transforms. Now the
rotting, ravenous dead are rising, driven by a bloodthirsty hunger for
all things living—and commanded by a Sith Master with an insatiable lust for power and the ultimate prize: immortality . . . no matter the cost.
The novel opens 3,645 years before the Battle of Yavin (Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope) with one-dimensional zombie movie characters training in the ways of the Sith on a planet called Odacer-Faustin. One of the students, Nickter, gets wounded and goes missing. Apparently, he's the fourth to go missing this year. It's also apparent that the Sith temple's Sith Lord, Darth Scabrous, has kidnapped Nickter and uses him to experiment on, seeking a way to live forever. On Marfa, Hestizo Trace and the black Murakami orchid she's watching over are kidnapped and taken to Odacer-Faustin. Returning from Geonosis, Jedi Knight Rojo Trace arrives on Marfa to find his sister has been kidnapped and Joe Schrieber copies Liam Neeson's line from the movie Taken as he threatens the people who stole her and the orchid. Jura sneaks into Scabrous' lab and finds Nickter being pumped with liquid and die. Nickter's body then sits up and chases Jura and bites him. Lussk beats a fellow student and tosses him in a pit with Nickter and Jura's dead body and leaves the student to die. The student, Na'at, survived and heads to the infirmary. Meanwhile, another student, Scopique, sees the animated body of Jura charge and bite him. Thirty students arrive and both Jura and Scopique's bodies attack them.
Lussk traps more students in the dining hall and the zombies attack in a raving horde and Lussk becomes one of them. Scabrous learns of his error and has his ship prepped to leave after he kills Hestizo. Rojo has infiltrated the Sith academy and sees the Sith-zombies eat the trainers. Scabrous kills the academy's librarian to draw Hestizo and the Whipid bounty hunter to him. Ra'at becomes a zombie and Maggs puts him down with Force Lightning. Tulkh, the bounty hunter, finds Scabrous' HK assassin droid and together, they hold off the zombies and make their way to Tulkh's ship. Kindra betrays Maggs to the zombie-forms of the Sith trainer and Hartwig. Scabrous wants to kill Hestizo and eat her heart, performing the last bit of a ritual the ancient Sith Lord Darth Drear has discovered only too late to remain immortal. The zombies use Kindra to destroy a ship that had landed days ago and feast on her. Tulkh gets spittle from a zombie-tauntuan in his eye. Scabrous kills Rojo and Hestizo kills Scabrous. Tulkh, HK, and Frode rescue Hestizo and become trapped inside Tullkh's ship as the zombies activate the academy's defenses. HK sacrifices itself to destroy the defenses, taking all the zombies with it. Frode takes the ship out and Hestizo finds Tulkh beginning to transform. He orders her to space him and she does when Lussk jumps out of the shadows. Both Lussk and Tulkh are sucked into space. Frode and Hestizo head back to Mafra so she can say she's leaving to finish her Jedi training. The two of them leave for the Jedi Temple.
A rather overhyped novel (at the time) that readers quickly see has no plot (just like every zombie-related thing out there) and no character development. I know the majority of the cast is Sith, but come on. None of the rest of the Sith Lords act completely alike. A less than mediocre novel that has tied its bloody hands with the current MMO for Star Wars.
The novel opens 3,645 years before the Battle of Yavin (Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope) with one-dimensional zombie movie characters training in the ways of the Sith on a planet called Odacer-Faustin. One of the students, Nickter, gets wounded and goes missing. Apparently, he's the fourth to go missing this year. It's also apparent that the Sith temple's Sith Lord, Darth Scabrous, has kidnapped Nickter and uses him to experiment on, seeking a way to live forever. On Marfa, Hestizo Trace and the black Murakami orchid she's watching over are kidnapped and taken to Odacer-Faustin. Returning from Geonosis, Jedi Knight Rojo Trace arrives on Marfa to find his sister has been kidnapped and Joe Schrieber copies Liam Neeson's line from the movie Taken as he threatens the people who stole her and the orchid. Jura sneaks into Scabrous' lab and finds Nickter being pumped with liquid and die. Nickter's body then sits up and chases Jura and bites him. Lussk beats a fellow student and tosses him in a pit with Nickter and Jura's dead body and leaves the student to die. The student, Na'at, survived and heads to the infirmary. Meanwhile, another student, Scopique, sees the animated body of Jura charge and bite him. Thirty students arrive and both Jura and Scopique's bodies attack them.
Lussk traps more students in the dining hall and the zombies attack in a raving horde and Lussk becomes one of them. Scabrous learns of his error and has his ship prepped to leave after he kills Hestizo. Rojo has infiltrated the Sith academy and sees the Sith-zombies eat the trainers. Scabrous kills the academy's librarian to draw Hestizo and the Whipid bounty hunter to him. Ra'at becomes a zombie and Maggs puts him down with Force Lightning. Tulkh, the bounty hunter, finds Scabrous' HK assassin droid and together, they hold off the zombies and make their way to Tulkh's ship. Kindra betrays Maggs to the zombie-forms of the Sith trainer and Hartwig. Scabrous wants to kill Hestizo and eat her heart, performing the last bit of a ritual the ancient Sith Lord Darth Drear has discovered only too late to remain immortal. The zombies use Kindra to destroy a ship that had landed days ago and feast on her. Tulkh gets spittle from a zombie-tauntuan in his eye. Scabrous kills Rojo and Hestizo kills Scabrous. Tulkh, HK, and Frode rescue Hestizo and become trapped inside Tullkh's ship as the zombies activate the academy's defenses. HK sacrifices itself to destroy the defenses, taking all the zombies with it. Frode takes the ship out and Hestizo finds Tulkh beginning to transform. He orders her to space him and she does when Lussk jumps out of the shadows. Both Lussk and Tulkh are sucked into space. Frode and Hestizo head back to Mafra so she can say she's leaving to finish her Jedi training. The two of them leave for the Jedi Temple.
A rather overhyped novel (at the time) that readers quickly see has no plot (just like every zombie-related thing out there) and no character development. I know the majority of the cast is Sith, but come on. None of the rest of the Sith Lords act completely alike. A less than mediocre novel that has tied its bloody hands with the current MMO for Star Wars.
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