SW question... (possible ep3 spoilers?)

[Jerrel]

Dont remember where I read it but only a true master's body disapears after death. So Qui-gon wasn't a "true" master. He may have been close enough though to send his mind into the force but not his body like Obi-wan and Yoda did. If you include comics and the books into your concideration of this becoming one with the force, then you find that masters have been doing this for a long time. Even the Sith where able to figure out how to do it but they had to attact their spirits to an object imbuned with the dark side to accomplish it.

The name of the planet where Palpatine kept the clonning vats is Wayland Novall. For those of you interested on reading about the planet it appears in Timothy Zhan's Thrawn Trillogy (Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rissing, and The Last Command). This trillogy is also where Mara Jade makes her first apperance.

[Dasumi]

If you include comics and the books into your concideration of this becoming one with the force, then you find that masters have been doing this for a long time.

That's one of the problems.
GL more than often stated, that he doesn't consider the EU.
One of his statements was something like that there's the EU's Star Wars and his Star Wars.
And all the writers of the newly published books who got the Episode 3 script to relate to are, when it comes to the matter of force ghosts, pointing in a totaly different direction as the EU ever did.

[Jerrel]

Thats one of my biggest critizisms of GL. He allowed his SWU to be writen by so many people with out really paying attention to what was being writen and finnally when things start to contridict he goes "um...um...well all the stuff that contridicts what I'm about to write is in a diffrent universe." Or in other words a copout.

[Dasumi]

Thats one of my biggest critizisms of GL. He allowed his SWU to be writen by so many people with out really paying attention to what was being writen and finnally when things start to contridict he goes "um...um...well all the stuff that contridicts what I'm about to write is in a diffrent universe." Or in other words a copout.

Basically i'm with you on that one.
When i wrote plots for my former pen&paper RP group continuity and the logic of the story was always a big issue for me, so i can't say that i like the gaps that open between EU and canon, though i have to admit, that i've never been the biggest EU fan myself.

But one could argue (i always notice that i just can't let such matters be without having a "but" coming ^^ i'm the born opposition ) that actually the EU started contradicting.
Jedi started to appear where Luke was supposed to be the last, clone Palpatines when he was meant to be dead, and so on.
Even the existence of other force users like night sisters, etc. in the EU could be debated when it comes to what Lucas meant by his "balance of the force" and if the invention of other force users except the last remaining jedi could contradict with what Lucas could have meant.

But well, your argument, that Lucas did license the EU books, comics and so on is quite right, he could have had control about how the EU looks like if he wanted to.