I thought I read somewhere, it might have been the ROTJ novelization that Obi-wan and Yoda helped anakin after he died so that he could keep his identity when becoming one with the force!

How could I diss good ol' Arhul?

Valin Kenobi:

Other Sith era Jedi (like Arca Jeth) knew the secret, so I would assume it was something that was known but somehow lost or more likely purged. Anakin is, essentially, the Jedi messiah, so it makes sense that he was able to transcend this barrier without formal teaching.

Yes, it seems like the ghosting secret was either accidentally or purposely lost some time in the last few thousand years of Star Wars history. I wouldn't put it past Anakin to have somehow intuited the secret.

As for the Whills, I won't even go there.

*We already know that Rahn visited Yoda but I really don't like the trend of every surviving Jedi and his cousin dropping in for a visit.

Dramatically, it completely detracts from the point of his self-exile. The place is a hermitage, not an intergalactic hostel.*

Heh heh. I agree, though. Yoda's already had a half-dozen known visitors on Dagobah besides Luke, including Boba Fett, historian Voren Na'al, and Qu Rahn, among them.

the fragrant wookiee:

Besides, Yoda's pretty good at looking after himself. If an Inquisitor turned up on Dagobah I wouldn't fancy his/her chances.

Well, quite true.

Take care,
Abel

*If they were taught then maybe they've been in contact with Yoda or Obi-Wan.
Rahn certainly visited Yoda, so during the Dark Times maybe Dagobah became like a truck stop for fugitive Jedi!*

We already know that Rahn visited Yoda but I really don't like the trend of every surviving Jedi and his cousin dropping in for a visit.

Dramatically, it completely detracts from the point of his self-exile. The place is a hermitage, not an intergalactic hostel.

Also, it doesn't make sense within the logic of the story. The more Jedi that know of Yoda's location, the more likely it would have been that one of them would have given up the information after being captured by the Inquisitors, long before Luke made it out there in ESB.

the fragrant wookiee:

*If they were taught then maybe they've been in contact with Yoda or Obi-Wan.
Rahn certainly visited Yoda, so during the Dark Times maybe Dagobah became like a truck stop for fugitive Jedi!*

Mmm, Yoda's gruel ... best chow in the galaxy, it is.

(Obi-Wan was probably too busy on Tatooine seeing off future and non-canonical Sith Lords).

Those pesky Sith will break even the laws of storytelling to give evil its day.

Master Ki-Aaron-Mundi:

This could probably be true for any or all of them except Halagad. If memory serves, he thought he'd sold out all the remaining Jedi to Vader.

Yes, his belief that he'd sold out the remaining Jedi has been the tricky part of Halagad's story to preserve. We can write him off as a simple crackpot, but that would rob the character of his compelling story arc. After all, even insanity has its own internal logic, a kind of rationality run amuck, as someone once put it.

The recent revelation in Echoes that Halagad created a network between the Jedi survivors of Order 66 goes a ways toward preserving the weight of his character and role in the Dark Times.

Hedec Ga:

*You'd better not be toying with us, sir. We have ways of dealing with those who get our fanboy hopes up. Grrr... *

I'm a fanboy too, and I'd like to see this as much as anyone ... I toy not.

Take care,
Abel

It's a distinct possibility.

You'd better not be toying with us, sir. We have ways of dealing with those who get our fanboy hopes up. Grrr...

There is something curious about the three aforementioned Jedi and Aidan here. Halagad, Qu, and Aidan all wound up as Jedi ghosts; meanwhile, Palpatine purportedly learned a way to become immortal from Ashka Boda....

Hmm. Interesting.
I wonder, did someone teach the first three or did they do it instinctively (like Anakin and Ulic Qel-Droma seem to)?

If they were taught then maybe they've been in contact with Yoda or Obi-Wan.
Rahn certainly visited Yoda, so during the Dark Times maybe Dagobah became like a truck stop for fugitive Jedi!
(Obi-Wan was probably too busy on Tatooine seeing off future and non-canonical Sith Lords).

Abel, any chance you are contributing to the the new fiction comming out through hyperspace?

*Do you think Ashka and Halagad were captured together, seeing as how they both get similar treatment from the Empire (even though Halagad survives)?
Or is that a story for another day?*

I think that is a story for another day. But I think they would have done everything they could not to get captured together, for what would happen to the Jedi network. Would they have succeeded in that moral victory? That's the question.

Take care,
Abel

Hey fragrant wook. Happy to hear you enjoyed Echoes of the Jedi. It was, in general, an homage to Jim Bambra's Domain of Evil, as was made explicit in the authors' dedication at the beginning of the adventure.

The Jedi Master Ashka Boda has long been one of my favorite background characters, one of those guys wrapped in a lot of mystery. Teaming him up with Halagad felt appropriate and satisfying.

Thanks for gushing. The fans are really what has made writing Star Wars all these years such a pleasure.

Take care,
Abel