Death Troopers

Overview
Death troopers are an upcomming zombie-like NPC. their origins are from the new novel, Death Trooper by DelRay and Lucas Books schedualed to be released on October 13, 2009.

Canon
So far, it is believed to be canon and with the probability that it was based off the Darkhorse Comic strip "Planet of the Dead", a comic based off a planet in which Solo and Chewbacca face "zombies", The Death Troopers may reside on that planet, mening that a "new" planet may be revealed.