"That's not the kind of interaction we want to encourage."

Good luck with that You might as well try and turn off human nature.

Some additional thoughts:

A holocron does not necessarily mean the Jedi that created is dead. There are ways to keep a body in stasis or possibly she is older (some species age better than other though)

Perhaps the holocron could lead to a clone. Although this posses the old insanity of force users getting cloned (but maybe the holocron can make her whole again)

The Shards are a silicon-based species native to the planet Orax and could provide some insight into making the crystal more sentient. Maybe producing offspring?

I have some other thoughts in my head but most of them have to do with AI and robotics more than the force.

Even if the gatekeeper is dead it doesn't mean they are gone.

Their force ghost could be flattered/disgusted by the attention and decide to do something about it.

Unfortunately, for Val Isa (the real one)

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Considering that my player and Kalgen both independently arrived at the conclusion of "combine amulet and holocron", so I think - by virtue of ease, interest, and agreement - that's probably what I'll end up going with. The concept does make for really entertaining discussion, though! It's also a difficult one, since holocrons are very "MacGuffin-y".

I keep thinking of the short story Palla, found within various Elder Scrolls games. You can take it as a warning of the dangers of bringing someone back from the dead...

It's a two-volume story, worth a read!

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Palla,_Volume_1

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Palla,_Book_II

Unfortunately, for Val Isa (the real one)

she is very much dead. You're told so in her flashback. That said, I could see her having a Force ghost lingering around the Sanctuary. Sadly, I didn't actually consider that until it was much too late.

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Considering that my player and Kalgen both independently arrived at the conclusion of "combine amulet and holocron", so I think - by virtue of ease, interest, and agreement - that's probably what I'll end up going with. The concept does make for really entertaining discussion, though! It's also a difficult one, since holocrons are very "MacGuffin-y".

Dead can mean so many things in Star Wars, Luke's father was dead in A New Hope and then Alive in Empire Strikes Back. Just saying

From a certain point of view.

You know, it was a really terrible book (and then compounded by turning it into a trilogy) but there might be some ideas to be mined from Children of the Jedi, where Luke falls in love with a disembodied force ghost and the body she eventually possesses before she gets all angsty and mopey that she doesn't have the force anymore and runs off to be mopey causing Luke to be mopey that his true love has run off.

God, that really was a terrible book.

Anyway, you might find a nugget of inspiration that you can throw at the player(s) amidst that giant turd.

Terrible trilogy then they brought back what was left of her as part of the main villain in Fate of the Jedi.

This reminds me of ST:TNG, when Geordi falls in love with a Holodeck re-creation of another engineer. And then meets her in person and finds out her personality is completely different, oh and she's also married.

It also does seem reminiscent of Cortana falling for Master Chief, only he's the one trying to keep distant b/c he knows she's just a hologram.

And Theran in SWTOR does have a thing for his hologram as well.

So lots of similar situations. I don't foresee it going too well in the end. A holocron personality, no matter how lifelike it may seem, is not actually a person.

Terrible trilogy then they brought back what was left of her as part of the main villain in Fate of the Jedi.

They did? Jeeze, what a terrible idea. With moronic moves like that, thank god the Expanded Universe got thrown under the bus.

I would probably just strap away from this situation before there becomes a exotic hub for hologirls.