So about how many Jedi were around during the OT?

Now that's a curious idea. I like it. Plus that leaves door open for Liam Neeson to return for a cameo or more.

 

I'll be very shocked if Liam Neeson doesn't appear in the Obi-Wan show in any capacity.

 

No force user has ever died from a fall.

 

But if they were unconscious, the sudden impact at the end of the fall could do some damage.

 

Well, as the saying goes, it's the sudden stop at the end of the fall that kills you.

And Mace Windu had a long way to fall.

 

Ultimately, Anakin's death was because he fell for Padme.

 

It only takes about 12 seconds to reach terminal velocity. Considering the height and that Coruscant is 100% metal and concrete I think that would do ALL the damage.

 

As many as are necessary for story telling purposes.

In universe answer? Probably less than 20.

 

Or he fell on the ridge 5 meters below

 

"I'm sure he is just hanging on just off screen."

 

Why does everyone assume Palpatine used just enough power to shove him out the window into a debatable landing? It was Unlimited at close range against a highly trained and experienced opponent, who could go on to cause a great deal of trouble for the Empire, not Luke Skywalker.

 

Have you met a fan theory that makes sense?

 

I could maybe see Windu surviving a face full of Force lighting, or the fall, but surviving both seems pretty unlikely to me. I'm pretty much going assume he's dead, at least until we actually see him alive after RoTS.

 

Finally we are on the same page, maybe different books but still

 

To be fair, though, I doubt that a tie-in would be allowed to confirm or deny his death given the remote possibility of Samuel L. Jackson being asked to return in something set twenty years later. Maybe he survives but is not himself and certainly not a Jedi; maybe he definitively dies before ROTJ. He could return as an older Force spirit and we find out he died later than ROTS, connecting the dots backwards. Either way this should be a character piece far beyond the supporting role from the films and TCW.

 

The smarter move would be to leave him dead.

 

Yoda did tell Windu about force ghosts before he did tell Obi-Wan. I don't think he had enough time to learn that. Certainly more than Anakin, though, who appears to have taught himself in his last moments after force Obi-Wan had probably pestered him.

 

Maybe Qui-Gon had been somehow communicating with him, helping some good in him survive all those years.

 

Some of my favorite fan art is Force ghosts coming to support Anakin as he returns to the light. I love the metaphysical idea of them trying to reach Anakin even in death.

 

Falling damage maxes out at 20d6. How many Hit Points does Mace have?