So here we go. Recently over chrismas I got some more books for me and I got one that stood out. That was Star Wars Death Troopers. It was a novel by Joe Schreiber that combined Zombies with Star Wars. I lovd Star Wars the way it was so at first blew it off thinking it wasn't any good then I started reading it. I finished it in six days. That's the fastest I've finished a book ever. I fiished it today. But I thought the ending was good but it was missing something. I won't spoil it for anyone that hasn't read it all yet but i decided to make this fanfiction about another Star Destroyer that stumbles across an Interdictor that docked with that Star Destroyer from the book. This takes place a month ahead of Death Troopers. The idea is that the Emperor received an emergency message from that Star Destroyer and sent an Interdictor on a secret mission to collect the bio weapons they had onboard and return them to him. But before they the tanks started leaking and now the Interdictor is infected and the engines are still running and it's still heading towards Corusant. Vader then receives amessage from one of his Destroyers about a distress signal from an Interdictor by the name of Tyrant. Thhis first chapter will explain more of the story enjoy. Warning though it will get a bit gory later in so if you are scarred easy I recomend you don't read this.

Prologue Recording

Location: Corusant

Time: 1300 hours

Commanding officer: Zacharia Zaheed

Code name: To Serve and Protect.

Callsign: Archangel

Ship: The Salvation

Above the surface of the city planet an Imperial Star Destroyer hovered over the planet's atmosphere. It was just hovering there with it's massive turbolaser cannons locked as the engineers repaired them. This was Standard procedure Before they left a port or Imperial out post. On the Command Bridge a high ranking Imperial looks down at theplanet he called his home. For a few moments he looked downward at the planet it almost appeared calm actually then he looked at the massive Super Star Destroyer that seemed like a cloud that was thirteen times larger this his own Star Destroyer. Behind him the Bridge crew stood at their stations all was in order for they were soon to receive a special guest and everything had to be perfect.

The Commanding officer turned around and went to the communications officer who was sitting in chair constantly scanning the complex communication ecuipment for a signal that hey have been expecting for the past ten minutes. The Commanding officer looks at his communication officer's forehead and sees some sweat coming from his head. He was worried about the guest they were expecting for this was no ordinary guest.

"Don't worry Norman." The officer says putting his hand on the communiaction officer's shoulder. "Just inform me when you receive the message." The officer says then removes his hand from the Communication officer's shoulder.

"Thank you sir. It's just I've never seen him before." The Communication officer says turning his attention from the communication equipment to his superior officer. "Have you ever seen him before?" He asks.

"This is not the first time Norman." The commanding officer tells Norman.

"Right but you're an officer of the Empire. This is a new job for me. When I was a teenager I never thought I would get on a Star Destroyer non the less serve on it." Norman tells his superior officer turning his attention away from him and focusing back on the communication equipment at his station.

"I thought the same when I went through the academy on Courlag. Look at me now." The commanding officer tells Norman.

Then there was a click from the communication system telling that there was a message. Norman looks up at his commandin officer almost as if to say "Are you sure of this?" But nothing came from his mouth. His commanding officer nodded and Norman hit a button on the communication terminal.

Suddenly a female officer's voice came through the terminal and said. "Attention Salvation this is The Executor rquesting permission to board."

"This is commanding officer Zacharia Zaheed. Permission granting you can send a party when ready." Norman's commanding officer says to the message hoping they received it.

"Roger that Salvation. Dispatching boarding party to hangar 4E now. Prepare for Lord Vader's arrival." The female voice says back.

Norman appeared shocked at the last part of the message. "Prepare for Lord Vader's arrival." He repeats then looks up at Zacharia as if he had no idea what he was doing. Norman had never seen Lord Vader and never expected to be on the same ship as the Emperor's Enforcer. "Are you sure of this?" He asks Zacharia.

"I'm sure of it. Stay Here I'll head down to hangar 4E and prepare for Lord Vader's arrival." Zacharia says leaving the bridge to head down to hangar 4E which was on the left side of the Destroyer's triangle shaped hull.

Norman tooka breath of releaf knowing that his commanding officer will take care of mostly and he was told nothing of a inspection from Lord Vader himself or anything like that. Whatever was going on was top secret and the Captain was probably the only one that knew of it at the moment. Norman got back to work with that thought still lingering in his mind. What else didn't he know he wondered.

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In Hangar 4E of the Salvation Stormtroopers follow Captain Zacharia into the Hnagar bay and got into perfect formation behind Zacharia as an Imperial Lambassa shuttle comes through the hangar's sheilds and deploys it's landing gear and touches down in front of Zacharia a couple feet in front of him. He gulps as the Ramp comes down from the cockpit like it was designed. Then the ominous mechanical breathing came from the Lambassa shuttle making Zacharia shiver a little. Then he saw him. The large all black figure coming out of the Lambassa with two Stormtroopers from the 501st legion folllowing him on each side like body guards. The figure wore a mask that all in the Imperial forces knew and most of the rebelion knew as the helmet of none other then Vader himself. Vader was on the Salvation.

Vader approached Zacharia with his long cape dragging behind him as he came towards with a swagger. Secretly Zacharia was afraid of Vader hearing of what he did to officers that failed one too many times. he takes another gulp hopping that Vader came here to speak with him and not strangle him with the force. The Lord stops in front of Zacharia placing his arms on his hips like he always did. Zacharia could see the complex machnary panel on his chest that ran the breather in his helmet. Then he looked up at Vaders face mask the triangle shaped opening that he spoke through and the round top of his helmet. Vader did nothing but stand there breathing. Zacharia was getting worried. This was not a good sign.

"Captain Zaheed." The Sith Lord finally said through his breather that made his voice dark and intimidating. Zacharia was just glad that he finally cut the akward silence.

"Yes... Sir." Zacharia says finding it hard to mutter out the words.

"I need to speak with you in private." Vader tells Zacharia.

Zacharia then notices the 501st Stormtroopers entering the Lambassa shuttle via the ramp that was now folding back upward.

"Come with me my lord." Zacharia says leading Vader somewhere private so he and the Sith Lord could speak. The remaining Stormtroopers disperse as Zacharia and Vader enter a Turbolift that led to Zacharia's cabin.

The tubolift starts up and goes upward with Zacharia and Vader inside. They both remained silent nothing but the sound of Vader's breathing to keep the silence out. Zacharia never did like silence. He just found silence creepy and unatural. It reminded him of when he was a Stromtrooper. The silence was always around him nothing but the Sergeant yelling at him to keep his attention off of it. As a kid he was always afraid of it becuase of the nightmares he had. The Silence was always when the monsters got you. He always thought and knew.

The Turbolift doors opened and they were at Zacharia's personal cabin. It was the largest personal cabin on the Destroyer. On the wall facing from the Turbolift was bookshelf full of books about the history of the Galaxy and beside that was desk with a chair up to it. On the desk was a holocomputer that he used to check on the ship's systems. Ajacent from that was Zacharia's bed it was perfectly made. THen in the center of the room was a large table that had six chairs around it. Here is where he spoke to the most trusted of his crew. His second in command and other officers like that. Vader went over to the table and stood beside it reaching somewhere. Zachaira could not tell becaus ehte cape covered his hand and most of his body.

As Zacharia came over to the table he sat down and waiting for Vader to start speaking. Then Vader pulled out a Datacard and placed it on the table in front of him. Zacharia reached out and pulled the Datacard closer to him so he could have a look.

"Captain I'm sure you know why I'm here?" Vader asks crossing his arms Standing upright.

"You said That you needed aboard and not to tell anyone." Zacharia tells Vader.

"Very good Captain you do listen. That Datacard holds an audio recording from another Destroyer on the edge of the Unknown Region." Vader explains to Zacharia.

"The Unknown Region." Zacharia says not beleiving what Vader told him. "I thought we weren't supposed to venture out that far?" Zacharia then asks.

Vader remained silent not answering Zacharia's question. But the Sith Lord then continues what he was telling the Captain like he didn't even hear what Zacharia said.

"The Destroyer received the message while scanning for hidden Rebels in the uncharted planets near the unknown Region. They said it came from the Interdictor Tyrant who's location was not known." Vader tells Zacharia then motions with his hand to tell Zacharia to put the datacard back on the table.

Then using the force he activate the audio recording on the datacard. The message appeared to have some static but was still audible despite it's condition. On the audio file was an Imperial officer's voice. The voice was male and sounded like it was afraid of an unknown assilant.

"This is the interdictor Tyrant calling out to any Imperial ships in the imediate area..." The message cuts off for a moment because of static but then it comes back again. "We have sustained multiple casualties from an unknown virus..." The messages cuts off but the comes back. "Over half of our crew is dead now. Medical officers all gone. Dead from virus. We need more medical equipment." The voice says buts then goes silent as if the person turns around to speak to someone behind him. Zacharia cpuld not understand what the man said but he then came back and was more afraid now. "We need imediate assistance!" The voice stops and Stromtrooper is heard in the background. "They're coming!" The Trooper yells. The sound of multiple troopers move by as if they were running to stop something. Then Imperial offiver voice returns. "Not much of us left to fight. If you receive this message please come to it's origin we need imediate assistance. I repeat..." The voice says then stops as blaster fire and screaming from a dying Stormtrooper is heard in the background. The screaming comes again this time accompanied by a moist crunching sound. Then the voice comes again. "They live..." voice says then turns off the recording.

Zacharia thinks about the message for a moment letting it run through his head a couple of times. What's an Interdictor doing all the way out there and what did he mean by they live? He though to himself for a couple seconds. Zacharia then looks back at Vader as he uses the force to bring the datacard to him and put it back where he got before speaking again.

"Captain that Interdictor is carrying something vital to the Empire I need you to go the location this was received and see if you can't pick up anymore of the message." Vader says as the turbolift doors open again.

Through the turbolift comes a Dark Trooper a feared commando version of the Stromtroopers. Zacharia didn't like the Dark troopersm along with their machine counterparts but if they were hear it must be serious.

"This is Commander Karmon Zekus. He will be leading the Dark Trooper squad I brought onboard to help secure the Tyrant for Imperial examination. I trust you will not be unable of completing the mission with them onboard." Vader tells Zacharia who was looking at Karmon who had his helmet off and was holding by his side. With his E11 blaster in the other hand.

"No my Lord. I will make accomidations for them now." Zacharia tells Vader.

"Very good Captain. I need to report back to the Emperor at once. Do not fail me." Vader says then steps in the turbolift.

The Turbolift leaves and the Sith Lord was gone. Leaving Zacharia and Karmon alone in the cabin stating at each other waiting for the other to make a move.

"Tell your navigation officer to head to these cooridnates. That is where the Destroyer received the message." Karmon told Zacharia handing him another Datacard he pulled out of the pouch that hung around his belt.

Zacharia takes the card from Karmon as the turbolift doors open up.

"Time for you to leave." Zacharia tells Karmon.

"Alright you are the Captain and this is your ship. Give me a call over the com channel when you need me." Karmon says as he got in the turbolift and keys for it to go back down to the Hangar bay.

Zacharia steps over to his desk and plugs the datacard into the holocomputer then turns it on to speak to Norman in the command bridge. "Norman take these coordinates to the navigation officer." He told Norman who was on the other end.

Chapter 1 The Dark Troopers

In Hangar bay 4E two Imperial transports landed as Vader's Lambassa shuttle took off. The transports opened their cargo bay doors and dropped off multiple varients of the Dark Trooper Droid series. there were six phase1s which were designed a with a metal sword on their left arm and a sheild on the other. They were excellent at dealing with infantry. Two phase2s which carried Eweb turrets guns as weapons. They were good at taking down vehicles and were also used to stop Wookies. One huge phase3 that they called Terminator for obvious reasons. The phase threes toward over the phase one and twos and had two deployable shoulder rocket launchers unders the shoulder pads of their body and two heavy laser cans on both of its wrist. They were all folded up and awaiting orders from their organic counter parts. The other transport dropped off four more Imperial Dark Troopers that all had unique symbols painted on their helmets to identify them from each other. The one with the Imperial sybol on the right side of his helmet was George and carried a moddified E11 blaster. The one with Mandolorian symbol painted on the right side of his helmet was Ven and carried a grenade launcher. The one with Old Republic symbol on the side of his helmet was Keller and he carried a sniper rifle. The last one had a blue Empire symbol on the side of his helmet and was named Richard and carries a flamethrower. He never talked much.

Zacharia exits the turbolift and sees the Darktroopers in the Hangar bay. He heads up to the command bridge with George, Ven, Keller, and Richard all follow him to the bridge. When he reaches the bridge he gives the signal to go into hyperspace. The Destroyer ten speeds away from Corusant faster then light heading to the coordinates that Karmon gave them. Not knowing what they would find when they got there.

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The Destroyer came out of hyperspace an hour later and imediatly started scanning for any signal that they could pick up. Zacharia was on the bridge with Karmon beisde him still in his Darktrooper armor minus the helmet. This was the spot but they weren't picking up anything. Zacharia was thinking for a few minutes if this some Imperial trick or if they would pick up something. He turned to Karmon after waiting for more then ten minutes and was about to say something when the communications terminal started picking up the same recording that Zacharia had heard in his cabin. Zacharia then comes over to Norman who was listening to the recording feeling afraid when he heard the blaster shots. Zacharia then pulled the headphones off of Norman and placed them on the chair Norman was sitting in.

"Focus Norman. These troopers are in danger and need us to rescue them. Send the coordinates to the navigation room and we'll be on our way." Zacharia tells Norman who was looking up at him.

"Yes sir." Norman says then sends the coordinates to navigation just as Zacharia went over to Karmon who was staring out into the void of space.

"You do that if we're picking up the signal then they're not that far away." Karmon tells Zacharia.

"I know that. But the thing is that it seems clearer now then when I heard it before." Zacharia says puzzled by this fact.

"Maybe our communication equipment is better then the Destroyer that picked it up the first time?" Karmon tells Zacharia trying to explain this.

"No our communication equipment is the same. I've checked." Zacharia says turning his head to Karmon who was still staring into the void of space.

"The I guess my team and I will investigate this when we get aboard the Tyrant." Karmon says as the Destroyer turned in the direction the signal was coming from.

"You know if we get there then I'm coming with you too." Zacharia says as the Destroyer jumps into Hyperspace again.

"Captain I appreciate the input but I think Vader put me on this ship for a reason. My team and I can handle this on our own without you." Karmon says turning to Zacharia.

"This is my ship remember and I do what I..." Zacharia says but falls and hits the durasteel floor of the command bridge as the entrie ship stops in a jolt.

Everyone on the Destroyer is shaken when the Destroyer comes to a sudden stop. In the Hangar bays ship screech as they skid a bit and the turbo lasers on the Destoyer's exterior turn from the force of the sudden stop. Zacharia gets to his feet with the assistance of Karmon. Zacharia looks around as the bridge is in chaos. Everyone was trying to figure out what happened. Zacharia then bent over and placed his hand on his head. He then removes his hand from his forehead and sees some blood dripping from his forehead that leaked onto his black glove. He then uses his hand to apply pressure to the wound while he walks across the bridge trying to figure out what happened. The durasteel shades of the glass viewscreen had closed shut so he was not able to actually happened.

"Status!" Zacharia yelled out hoping someone would stop and listen.

"Primary enginse are offline!" One of the Engineers yelled out. "It will take day to repair them." Another added. "Sir we have a target off our bow. It's above us." Another Engineer says.

"Someone get these cursed blinds open so we can see this thing!" Zacharia says as he turned around his hand still covering the minor head wound. Karmon looks out the viewport as well as the durasteel blinds are removed.

They are both amazed by what they saw hovering above them. It was the Interdictor Tyrant and it's gravity well generator was still active. But the ship was rusting in multiple places and it seemed like most of the hangar bays were locked down. The underside of the ship was scrapped up like it scrapped by a large asteroid. Zacharia looked at Karmon who was grinning at him.

"Guess we found it." Karmon told Zacharia with a smirk on his face.

"Guess we." Zacharia tells Karmon then turns to one of the engineers. "Get that thing scanned. If anyone's alive we need to get them out of there as soon as possible." Zacharia tells the Engineers. Then walks over to the galactic map with Karmon behind him. He hits a couple buttons the hologram of the mapped galaxy dissappears and it is replaced with a hologram of the Tyrant that spun around as the scanner scanned for any survivors.

"How many crew can these things have?" Karmon asks Zacharia.

"Six Hundred more or less. I've never really served on one before." Zacharia says removing his hand from the wound on his head as it stopped bleeding. He then turned to Stormtrooper that was standing in attention with his E11 blaster in hand. "Can you get me a bandage or something. I don't need thing getting infected or anything like that." Zacharia was always worried about his health as he got older his immune system got weaker. He knew if he didn't bandage his head wher the wound was the wound would probably get infected.

"Yes sire the trooper says putting the blaster in it's holster and taking the medical kit out of the bag that was next to the holster on his belt. From it grabbed the bandages and gave them to Zacharia who rapped it around the wound as the scanner stopped scanning the ship.

Zacharia gives the bandages back to the trooper who put them back in the bag and went back to his post. The scan was complete. a few red dots appeared in the Tyrant a couple on the command bridge and a few in the Gravity Well generator bay. But there was only less then thrity that he saw and the ones in the Gravity Well Generator bay wer eon the move heading to the bridge but as they did so the ones in the back of the line of red dots started going out like they were getting killed off by some unknown predator. As they got closer the more disappeared of the group of ten red dots. THe last one disappeared at the turbolift that led to the command bridge. Now there were only twenty and they were all in the command bridge.

"What was that?" Karmon asks.

"I don't really know. Maybe the Interdictor's Gravity Wells are messing with our scanners or something." Zacharia tells Karmon.

"Well I know one thing though. As long as that Gravity Well is active we're not leaving." Karmon tells Zacharia.

Zacharia looks at the hologram and notices the one of the ion enginges was barely active. It was moving little by little. That would explain why they received the message better then the Destroyer before them.

"Sir you want me to contact with them?" Norman asks.

"Go ahead." Zacharia tells Norman.

Norman hits a few buttons then puts on his head set. He was now transmitting to the Tyrant.

"Attention Tyrant this is Salvation come in." Norman says but hears nothign but statis from the other end. "Attention Tyrant this is Salvation come in." he repeats again but still there was nothing but static. "Again Tyrant this is Salvation please respond." Norman says one final time but hears nothing more but static from the Interdictor. Norman then turns to face Zacharia. "No answer sir."

"Maybe the Gravity Well is effecting the Communication equipment as well." Karmon tells Zacharia.

"Maybe. Guess you'll find out when you get onboard. You and your team will need to suit up for space." Zacharia tells Karmon.

"Yes sir. Finally something I get to do around here." Karmon says walking towards the hangar bay as he put his helmet on.

When Karmon disappears from the command Bridge Zacharia couldn't help but looks at the hologram one last time. What's really going on in there? He asked himself. Guess he would find out when Karmon and his team got onboard. He would go himself but it probaby wasn't a good idea at the moment with the head injury. He felt like he was in another one of the nightmares he had as a kid. The ones that never ended well for the last line of that distress signal kept coming to his mind.

"They live."

They Live that will give you guys a hint of what's t come. In case if your wondering what the mechanical Dark Troopers are look up in Star Wars Empire at War. They are not freindly. If you guys have any ideas let me know. I'm thinking of changing the title though. By the way this will not in any way interfear with my Spyro fanfiction. I'll just be slower on either one.