Force spirit

> "When manifesting a consciousness after death, retain your identity in the Force you will. Commune with the living, will you be able to, much like how spoke with you, Satele Shan could."
> — Yoda, to Jarik Shan
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**Force spirits** were beings who gained immortality through the preservation of their consciousness after death. Though lifeforms typically became one with the Force when they passed, deceased Force-sensitives could train to retain their identity and, therefore, communicate with the living. By achieving spiritual immortality, a person's physical form would vanish upon their death. This knowledge could be learned only by those who fully embraced the light side of the Force, such as the Jedi who lived by a code of selflessness and sacrifice. The followers of the dark side of the Force, such as the Sith, were incapable of learning this power.

During the Old Republic Era, the power Jedi Knights Revan and Bastila Shan would learn how to become Force spirits, an ability which would later be learned by their descendant, Satele Shan. Thousands of years later, during the Fall of the Galactic Republic, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn learned the ability to become a Force spirit from Guru Pathik, but was killed by Darth Maul before he could fully complete his training. As a result, he could commune with the living only as a disembodied voice, though on planets that were immensely strong in the Force — such as Mortis and Reylea — he was able to manifest a visual apparition of himself.

Near the end of the Clone Wars, a conflict in which the Galactic Republic and Jedi Order were at war with the Separatists, Grand Master Yoda embarked on a spiritual journey that brought him to the planets Dagobah and Korriban — as well as the birthplace of the midi-chlorians — and ultimately learned how to retain his identity after death. He then taught this ability to Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Knight Jarik Shan early in the reign of the nascent Galactic Empire; which was passed on to Jedi Master Shaak Ti (via Shan) as well, allowing her to become a Force spirit upon her death during the Battle of Atollon at the hands of the Sith Lord Darth Vader, who was formerly the fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker. Although Skywalker never received such training, his redemption and sacrifice at the Battle of Endor through ending his master Darth Sidious — definitively ending the Sith and fulfilling his destiny as the Chosen One — made it possible for his consciousness to be preserved after death by Kenobi and Yoda.

## **Appearances**

* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 1: Beginnings* — "Chapter 1: Dawn of a Legacy"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 15: Heroes on Both Sides"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 17: Overlords"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 53: Sabotage"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 60: Voices"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 61: Destiny"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 70: Getting in a Mess" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 5: Mysterious Connection" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 6: Doubt and Suspicion"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 7: Teachings of the Sith"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 18: A New Hope" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 19: Revelations from the Force"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 22: Departure? Not Really" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 57: The Wedding"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 81: Dangerous Curiosity" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 87: Destiny is Confusing"
* *Sun and Moon* — "The Prophet" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 45: The Challenge" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 50: Through Imperial Eyes" (disembodied voice in a vision to Jarik Shan)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 52: Old Wounds" (disembodied voice in a vision to Jarik Shan)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 57: Next Move" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 58: A Risky Confrontation"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 72: World Between Worlds" (indirect mention only)