Zombie / Legends A zombie , also referred to as the undead , was the corpse of a sentient or non - sentient creature that had been reanimated from the dead as a mindless and violent being . History . Through Sith alchemy the Sith were able to create Korriban zombie s as guardians of the Valley of the Dark Lords . Sith undead were also to be found guarding the Dark Force Temple on Dromund Kaas . In 4645 BBY , on the ice - blanketed world of Odacer - Faustin the Sith Lord , Darth Drear established the Odacer - Faustin Sith Academy in hopes of achieving Immortality through the use of a complex Sith alchemical formula for an elixir more akin to a virus and specific rituals . He died however soon after attempting the rituals while self - infected with his virus - like elixir aka , " the Sickness " . The Rakghoul plague was able to turn beings into mindless creatures similar to zombies . During the Cold War in 3645 BBY , Sith Lord Scabrous planned to use Drear ' s elixir and rituals to attain what his predecessor could not , eternal life . Despite using all the ingredients required including the Murakami orchid , he and the entire academy ' s student body , faculty and staff save for one dockhand , Pergus Frode all fell victim the Sith - created virus that turned them into cannibalistic undead . 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 Samuro ' s 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 . During the Clone Wars , Mother Talzin and the Nightsisters kept a group of undead individuals that helped the Nightsisters during the Battle of Dathomir . The darkstaff , an ancient Sith artifact , had the power to reanimate corpses and turn them into dark side - wielding zombies . In about 19 BBY , the Human Len Markus used the staff to suck the Force essences out of the Force Adept s San Herrera and Nia Reston , then turn their cadavers into zombies . The two zombies attacked a group of freelance agents in the jungles of the planet Cularin , and the agents were eventually able to defeat the undead pair . 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 . The two known outbreaks that occurred during this time were on the Star Destroyer , " Vector " where Blackwing had been reintroduced to sentient hosts , causing the vessel and its former crew to drift in deep space . Ten weeks after the outbreak , the Imperial prison barge " Purge " that had experienced engine malfunction docked to the " Vector " and sent two teams to search for engine parts to repair their ship and move on . Soon after the virus infected nearly the entire population of the barge , crew and inmates with a few survivors forced to escape onto the larger vessel . After a series of close calls and more deaths , the survivors escaped the Star Destroyer via a drop shuttle . Other vessels piloted by infected zombies tried to spread the disease from the " Vector " but failed , as distancing an infected individual from the source of the infection caused the virus to become inactive , and remained drifting in space . One of the vessels eventually crashed landed on Dathomir creating the Quarantine Zone and spreading the infection . Anyone who survived the zone was deemed very lucky . 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 gem s to light a runway for the ghostly form of the Great Interplanetary Ark to land , finally putting the souls to rest .