It was heavily featured in the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies with SOE confirming a full page of information and advertisements of the game in the book.

When a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back, bringing with them a contagion so lethal that within hours, almost all aboard the Purge are dead – the half-dozen survivors include two teenage brothers, Kale and Trig Longo, the ruthless captain of the guards, Jareth Sartoris, and chief medical officer, Zahara Cody, all of whom seem to possess natural immunity.

The dead have become undead and begin to hunt the survivors who are forced to abandon Purge and take shelter in the Vector, unaware that the Destroyer is not the better place to be.

Cody finds herself in the Vector medbay, and with the aid of the Destroyer's own 21B discovers the cause of the contagion: Codenamed Blackwing, it is an artificially created virus – intended to slow the onset of decay and rigor mortis, and increase the healing capacity of the human body prior to death.

Cody observes from her vantage point that the remaining ships in the docking bay are being filled with the zombies, who are attempting to leave the Vector and spread their contagion throughout the galaxy.

Solo and Chewbacca leave to re-buy their impounded ship, while Cody and Trig use their share of the sale to visit a distant planet – home to one of the dead prison guards, and deliver a note he was in the process of writing when Blackwing took him.