Zombie/Legends

A zombie was a sentient creature that had been reanimated from the dead.

History
Through Sith alchemy the Sith were able to create Korriban zombies as guardians of the Valley of the Dark Lords. Sith undead were also to be found guarding the Dark Force Temple on Dromund Kaas.

The Zelosian people believed that zombies existed on their planet. That particular phenomenon was later attributed to parasitic worms infesting corpses and causing zombie-like movement.

Zombies were known to be used by the energy vampire Rajine, who utilized their services against trespassers and as palace help. Although it is unknown whether this effect would be had upon all zombies, Rajine's minions were turned against her using a Jedi holocron.

During the Second Battle of Geonosis, the Jedi Luminara Unduli and trooper Buzz, while in search for Archduke Poggle the Lesser, entered the Progate Temple during a sand storm and disappeared. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were sent to investigate with a squad of clone troopers lead by Commander Cody. They found Geonosians controlled by a hive mind that was so strong, it could resurrect dead warriors, similar to zombies. This was achieved by using worms that controlled the bodies, while Karina the Great was the controller. The Rakghoul Plague was able to turn beings into mindless creatures similar to zombies.

Shortly after the Battle of Yavin Cornelius Evazan, working on the Empire's Project Starscream, performed experiments in reanimating the dead on Necropolis. He developed a successful resurrection serum which allowed him to return to life after he was killed by Boba Fett.

Around 1 BBY an Imperial biological weapons project had been tasked with engineering a virus, under the codename of Blackwing. The virus seemed to turn almost any being, living or dead, who came in contact with it to a mindless flesh-craving undead creature. These creatures seemed to possess only primitive feral instincts after being turned, but were able to communicate and learn from each other through what seemed like unintelligible screeching. They were also capable of operating machinery and handling weapons, such as blasters, and were even able to pilot ships, such as X-Wings and TIE Fighters.

Han Solo and Chewbacca once visited an uncharted planet which was haunted by dead, living skeletal figures. These zombies were once the 1,000 crew members of a Great Interplanetary Ark that had crashed on the planet some time before. The souls would haunt the villagers every night, because they never made the land. However, Solo laid down two lines of tandgor gems to light a runway for the ghostly form of the Great Interplanetary Ark to land, finally putting the souls to rest.



Appearances

 * Red Harvest
 * Outbound Flight
 * Coruscant Nights I: Jedi Twilight
 * Death Troopers
 * Star Wars Journal: Hero for Hire
 * Galaxy of Fear: City of the Dead
 * Gathering Shadows
 * Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
 * Assault at Selonia
 * Star Wars Journal: Hero for Hire
 * Galaxy of Fear: City of the Dead
 * Gathering Shadows
 * Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
 * Assault at Selonia

Non-canon appearances

 * Planet of the Dead
 * Lunch Break