Star Wars Supports A Big Anakin & Qui-Gon Force Ghost Theory
Star Wars has offered more evidence supporting the theory Qui-Gon Jinn's Force ghost attempted to advise Obi-Wan Kenobi. There is a sense in which Qui-Gon Jinn's death was the deciding moment of Anakin Skywalker's life. Had Qui-Gonn survived his duel with Darth Maul, he would have been more than a mentor to Anakin; he would have been the father figure the boy so desperately needed. But Qui-Gon was slain in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, and Anakin's fate was sealed.
Death was not the end for Qui-Gon Jinn; he had learned esoteric Force knowledge that allowed him to manifest his presence after death. It seems to have taken him some time to achieve this, however, and his voice was first heard in Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones, crying out in sorrow as Anakin slaughtered the Tuskens. E.K. Johnston's novel Queen's Hope suggests Anakin actually heard Qui-Gon's voice speaking to him through the Force, and later he visited the shrine Naboo had set up in the slain Jedi Master's honor. Anakin experienced a sense of peace at the shrine, and believed Qui-Gon had spoken to him.
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Mike Chen's new Star Wars novel Brotherhood supports this idea, with Anakin sensing Qui-Gon's presence some days later, at his knighting ceremony. Plagued with memories of his mother's death, Anakin was provided comfort by "the strong hands of Qui-Gon Jinn on his shoulders, his soothing words whispering in his ears." According to the book, it was not the first time Anakin had felt Qui-Gon was with him, and those moments had always helped him find his emotional center.
Qui-Gon Jinn was an unusual Jedi, one of the few to have studied the ancient Jedi prophecies.
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