We saw what happened to the good Jedis - Kenobi, Yoda, and, ultimately, Annakin - they come back as ghosts who can give advice and so forth.
What about the nasty ones - Darth Maul, Count Dooku, Palpatine, etc?
Is there a Jedi hell?
Probably most beings, good and bad, simply “return to the Force” and get reconstituted into primal life energy or whatever. A point expanded upon in the novelizations is just how radical Qui Gon’s posthumous discovery was: a way to “become one with the Force” and yet still retain personal identity.
If I knew then what I know now…sigh.
Seems to me one of the Timothy Zahn books speculated that the Emperor’s Force-spirit thingy was orbiting Endor as sort of a cold, angry disembodied scream, or something.
They become plumbing contractors.
Actually, only Yoda and Obi-Wan became Force ghosts, and later Anakin. Qui-Gon could only make his voice be heard.
The others-we don’t know.
The evil ones go to Skywalker Ranch. How else can you explain the “Special Editions” and the last three movies?
Jedi doctrine holds that, upon death, servants of the Dark Side “cease to exist.” A few Force theologians have postulated the existence of a Sith afterlife where evil Jedi may work to eventually redeem themselves. However, the Jedi Council has never officially endorsed the concept of Midiclurgatory.
George Lucas goes back and retcons them into only-sorta-mean Jedis.
I believe they all end up in the bottom of very deep shafts. Perhaps they lure boys named Timmy into wells.
Worse, he goes back and retcons any minor moral blemish in the “good” Jedi so that they never occurred, to properly maintain that good is GOOD and evil is EVIL. Obi-wan telling Qui-Gon to leave Jar Jar behind? Gone! Qui-Gon arguing to tutor the whiny kid who will kill everyone in the room eventually? Erased! Anakin turning to the Dark Side and ushering in a dark age of the galaxy and the first three Star Wars films? Never happened!
Twenty years from now, the “authoritative” versions of Star Wars will consist only of Episodes I through III, and chronicle how a plucky young lad from a dustball planet saved the galaxy from mean old men who were totally, like, evil.
The evil jedi turn into Jar Jar Binks! (shudder)
Evil Jedi become Jedi Zombies.
At least I think that’s where those zombies in “Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith” came from. That place was certaintly creepy enough.
I think you need to rethink your understanding of The Force. It is one, and as a whole consists of both the “dark” the “light” side of the force, respective. It is really a subtle dualistic religion comparable to the Tao (Tao Te Ching). It is the long and the short; Insupportable as a single good or bad always coming to ebb and cycling. Arising and falling away. The eternal dance.
…they don’t go to heaven where the angels fly
They go to the lake of fire and fry
Won’t see them again 'till the fourth of July.
I’m guessing Sith doctrine says just the opposite.
On the “serious” side, I thought there was an implication that:
(a) “ghosts” can only be seen by Jedi who were close to the deceased. Perhaps (arguably) only by people with a father/son or tutor/student type relationship. Otherwise, there’d be a whole slew of 'em, and Luke (as last Jedi) wouldn’t have a moment’s peace.
(b) it was a “new” phenomenon that happened first with Qui-Gon. Remember that Palpatine Emperor was luring young (idiot) Darth with the notion that the Force can provide “immortality” but no one knows how to do it? I thought that was the “ghost” bit, but Palp was distorting it (or misunderstood it.)
They are reincarnated as Jawas.
I believe that’s canon.
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In one of the Knights of the Old Republic games, you can meet the spirit of a Sith lord who died over 15,000 years previously, and either start a fight with him or help him to become one with the Force. That’s the only instance i’ve ever come across in published Star Wars works that refers to what happens to dead Sith.