Who made the Blackwing?

The Blackwing was originally created by the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company in 1934, with the founder of the company being John Eberhard Faber, a member of the famous Bavarian Faber family, which today owns the Faber-Castell empire. The Blackwing 602, with its distinctive rectangular eraser, was aimed at artists, writers, and musicians for everyday use and quickly became a favorite of many famous artists of the day.

FAQs about Blackwing

General Information

1. What is the history of the Blackwing pencil?: The Blackwing pencil was introduced by the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company in 1934 and became synonymous with quality, but was discontinued in 1998 after several corporate acquisitions.
2. Who used the Blackwing pencil?: Legendary Grammy, Emmy, Pulitzer, and Academy Award winners have created with the Blackwing 602 pencil, including John Steinbeck, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, and Chuck Jones.
3. Why is the Blackwing pencil expensive?: The Blackwing pencil became expensive because fans began paying as much as $40 on eBay for a single Blackwing pencil after it was discontinued.

The Blackwing Virus

4. What is the Blackwing virus?: The Blackwing virus was accidentally created while working on an experiment to revive necrotic tissue, but it killed its hosts instead, attacking their biological tissue and turning their lifeless bodies into cannibalistic, brutal zombies.
5. How did the Blackwing virus spread?: The leaking tanks released the Blackwing virus as an airborne pathogen that quickly infected the thousands of Imperials aboard the Vector.
6. Is the Blackwing virus canon?: The Blackwing Virus was later brought into canon via Star Wars Commander during a special event.

Death Troopers

7. Who created the Death Troopers?: Death Troopers were named by Emperor Palpatine himself to capitalize on rumors about a legendary Imperial Military Department of Advanced Weapons Research project to revive necrotic tissue.
8. Why don’t Death Troopers talk?: The helmets of the Death Troopers included voice scramblers which allowed them to speak in death trooper encryption, making their communications impossible for anyone except another death trooper to understand.
9. Who led the Death Troopers?: Another squad of death troopers served under the command of the Seventh Fleet’s commander, Grand Admiral Thrawn.
10. Are there zombie Stormtroopers?: Star Wars Legends has featured zombie Stormtroopers before, which were almost unleashed onto the wider galaxy but were contained thanks to Han and Chewbacca.

Stormtroopers and Sith

11. Why can’t Stormtroopers shoot?: The helmet of the Stormtroopers is the problem, as it affects their ability to shoot accurately.
12. What are the red Stormtroopers called?: The Sith troopers took their red color from the Sith lightsaber blades and their name comes from the simple fact that they share the Sith cultists’ devotion to the Sith religion.
13. Why does Darth Sion look like that?: Darth Sion was disfigured by the Dark side and looked like a fractured body reassembled because he subsisted on pure spite.

Other Related Topics

14. How did the TWD virus start?: The Walking Dead zombie virus originated from a biomedical facility in France, as shown in The Walking Dead: World Beyond’s post-credits scene.
15. Who lives on Exegol?: Exegol is the hidden world of the Sith, and many Sith loyalists live on the planet, dedicated to helping Palpatine regain full power.