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Marka Ragnos

Affiliation: Sith Empire. Disciples of Ragnos.

History: Marka Ragnos is a Sith-Human hybrid and a direct descendant from a Dark Jedi who was exiled from the Republic and the Jedi Order after the Hundred-Year Darkness, that lived 20,000 years ago after the formation of the Old Republic. Feared, obeyed and admired among the Sith, Ragnos was considered to have been the greatest Dark Lord of the Sith of his age and was born a long time before 5100 BBY. When the Dark Lord of the Sith died, Ragnos and powerful Sith, Simus rose up to take the mantle. A formidable warrior, Ragnos dueled and defeated Simus in combat circa 5100 BBY, proving himself worthy of the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.

After gaining the mantle of a Dark Lord, he led ruthless campaigns against his Sith enemies, pitting his adversaries against each other and ensuring that there were no threats to his throne. His iron-fisted rule would last over a century. During those times Ragnos likely composed his own epistle, created a scepter capable of siphoning the Force from many different places, which could be used to empower non-Force users and designed a pair of gauntlets capable of augmenting the strength of the Force in its user.

Years later, Ragnos, as Dark Lord of the Sith and the ruler of the Sith Council and Sith Empire, was petitioned by a thirteen-year old boy named Tenabrae. The youth had come before Marka Ragnos to ask for training in the Sith arts and for recognition as the ruler of his father's domain, the planet Medriass. Although he declined to take him as an apprentice, Lord Ragnos was impressed by Tenebrae's power and ambition, and named him the ruler of Medriaas, bestowing on him the rank of Sith Lord and the name Vitiate.

Legacy: Ragnos' legacy lived after his death. The Ragnos Lakes, on Kesh, for instance, were named after him. During his funeral, on Moraband, two Sith Lords, Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh emerged as favorites to succeed Ragnos as the next Dark Lord of the Sith and the two engaged in a duel of Sith swords, after a disagreement as to who would better serve the Empire as Dark Lord. Ragnos' spirit appeared before them speaking of a great past and an uncertain future for the Sith Empire, proclaiming that only the most worthy would succeed him. After the duel, Sadow was elected as the new Dark Lord of the Sith. After the inconvenient arrival of Gav and Jori Daragon, an excuse to invade the Republic, claiming that those Galactic Explorers would try to bring Republic reinforcements in an effort to invade the Sith Empire soon enough.

Vitiate did not join in the struggle for succession after Ragnos' death, nor was he involved in the conflict between Sadow and Kressh, or the Great Hyperspace War. Instead, he decided to stay hidden, until the right time arrived.

After Sadow's election as the new Dark Lord of the Sith, further events led to a major war with the Galactic Republic. Ultimately, because the schism was never healed it spelled the end of their interstellar empire. Ragnos lived long after his death as a Force Ghost, trapped within the confines of his own tomb in the Valley of the Dark Lords on Moraband.

In 3997 BBY, about one millennium after his death, the spirits of Ragnos and several other Dark lords were summoned from the grave by Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma with the help of a pair of Sith amulets as part of an ancient prophecy. Awakened once again, he crowned Kun as the new Dark Lord of the Sith, his initiation into the dark side complete—with a single touch, Ragnos burned a mark of a Dark Lord into the center of Kun's forehead and Qel-Droma with that of a Shadow Hand, whom Ragnos said would become Kun's first and foremost apprentice, all in an attempt to restore the lost empire of a thousand years prior. The Great Sith War devastated the galaxy once again, but the Sith Empire was not restored.

At some point prior to 3963 BBY, Celeste Morne destroyed the last known copy of Ragnos' Epistle.

A thousand years after his physical death, during the Jedi Civil War, Revan and his companions visited he tomb of Marka Ragnos, during their search for the Star Forge. Revan had to enter the tomb and retrieve an old Sith artifact in order to impress Uthar Wynn so that Wynn would grant him access to Naga Sadow's tomb where a Star Map was located. Revan had to make his way to the Ragnos' tomb, which was protected by a rogue assassin droid. After battling the droid forces inside the tomb, Revan and his companions encountered the assassin droid. After conversing with the droid, he said that he was originally programmed to kill Jedi, but his Sith programmers made his cognitive systems more independent than they desired. Since then, the droid kept himself in isolation within the confines of Ragnos' tomb, building droids to aid in his protection. After that, the droid asked Revan for assistance in changing his programming, because, although the droid had developed the desire to not to kill, his programming was often at odds with his desires. Then, the droid offered Revan assistance to help him change his programming. After the reprogramming of the droid was successful, he offered Revan several of his redundant systems, so he could use them on other droids, and then the droid stated that he could escape from the planet, wishing well to Revan. Before exiting the tomb, Revan also found a pair of gauntlets that once belonged to Marka Ragnos. After that, Revan went out of the tomb, to gain prestige with Uthar Wynn.

A few decades after his death, Vitiate reconstituted Sith Empire once again. Vitiate ignited a new war against the Galactic Republic 1,319 years after Ragnos's death. By the time of the Galactic War, the ghost of Ragnos roamed the cave known as Architect's Hollow on the fourth moon of Yavin Prime.

At some point in his life, Darth Plagueis traveled to the Valley of the Dark Lords in Moraband. While there, he found no evidence that the spirits of Korriban were real, believing that those were mere diversions created for the credulous, but as Plagueis boarded his ship, he beheld a vision of Marka Ragnos. The apparition challenged Plagueis' claim to the Sith title, and railed against his plan to dismantle the traditions of Korriban. The vision however did not answer Plagueis' questions and inquiries. Instead, Ragnos snarled and disappeared in a whirl of smoke. After the experience, Plagueis wrote that it was possible that the entire episode, simply played out in his mind. Those texts were later acquired by Darth Sidious, Plagueis' former apprentice, and were included in a book he called, "Book of Sith".

Resurrection attempt: Thousands of years after his actual death, during the New Republic era in 14 ABY, Ragnos' spirit was intended to be resurrected from beyond the grave, this time summoned by a Sith cult known as the Disciples of Ragnos whose leader was Tavion Axmis, Desann's student.

With the help of an ancient scepter once used by Ragnos to drain residual Force energy, Tavion and her apprentice Alora siphoned the Force from many Force Nexuses all spread around the galaxy and used it to empower their followers. Tavion plotted to use the collected energy to resurrect Ragnos. After a hard campaign tracking the Disciples of Ragnos across the galaxy, the Jedi Order managed to track Tavion on Moraband. Jedi Luke Skywalker and Kyle Katarn were in charge of the campaign on Moraband, dispatching every available Jedi from the temple on Ossus among them, the Jedi Jaden Korr and Chris Shockley, who participated on almost every mission against the Disciples of Ragnos.

During the Battle of Moraband, Jaden and Chris managed to enter Ragnos' tomb, intending to stop Tavion. They were nearly too late, as she managed to resurrect Ragnos by allowing his spirit to possess her body, but Ragnos himself was nevertheless defeated by Korr. Ragnos' ghost was forced back into his sarcophagus, screaming out a dark promise that he would return.

Description
Marka Ragnos

Affiliation: Sith Empire. Disciples of Ragnos.

History: Marka Ragnos is a Sith-Human hybrid and a direct descendant from a Dark Jedi who was exiled from the Republic and the Jedi Order after the Hundred-Year Darkness, that lived 20,000 years ago after the formation of the Old Republic. Feared, obeyed and admired among the Sith, Ragnos was considered to have been the greatest Dark Lord of the Sith of his age and was born a long time before 5100 BBY. When the Dark Lord of the Sith died, Ragnos and powerful Sith, Simus rose up to take the mantle. A formidable warrior, Ragnos dueled and defeated Simus in combat circa 5100 BBY, proving himself worthy of the mantle of Dark Lord of the Sith.

After gaining the mantle of a Dark Lord, he led ruthless campaigns against his Sith enemies, pitting his adversaries against each other and ensuring that there were no threats to his throne. His iron-fisted rule would last over a century. During those times Ragnos likely composed his own epistle, created a scepter capable of siphoning the Force from many different places, which could be used to empower non-Force users and designed a pair of gauntlets capable of augmenting the strength of the Force in its user.

Years later, Ragnos, as Dark Lord of the Sith and the ruler of the Sith Council and Sith Empire, was petitioned by a thirteen-year old boy named Tenabrae. The youth had come before Marka Ragnos to ask for training in the Sith arts and for recognition as the ruler of his father's domain, the planet Medriass. Although he declined to take him as an apprentice, Lord Ragnos was impressed by Tenebrae's power and ambition, and named him the ruler of Medriaas, bestowing on him the rank of Sith Lord and the name Vitiate.

Legacy: Ragnos' legacy lived after his death. The Ragnos Lakes, on Kesh, for instance, were named after him. During his funeral, on Moraband, two Sith Lords, Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh emerged as favorites to succeed Ragnos as the next Dark Lord of the Sith and the two engaged in a duel of Sith swords, after a disagreement as to who would better serve the Empire as Dark Lord. Ragnos' spirit appeared before them speaking of a great past and an uncertain future for the Sith Empire, proclaiming that only the most worthy would succeed him. After the duel, Sadow was elected as the new Dark Lord of the Sith. After the inconvenient arrival of Gav and Jori Daragon, an excuse to invade the Republic, claiming that those Galactic Explorers would try to bring Republic reinforcements in an effort to invade the Sith Empire soon enough.

Vitiate did not join in the struggle for succession after Ragnos' death, nor was he involved in the conflict between Sadow and Kressh, or the Great Hyperspace War. Instead, he decided to stay hidden, until the right time arrived.

After Sadow's election as the new Dark Lord of the Sith, further events led to a major war with the Galactic Republic. Ultimately, because the schism was never healed it spelled the end of their interstellar empire. Ragnos lived long after his death as a Force Ghost, trapped within the confines of his own tomb in the Valley of the Dark Lords on Moraband.

In 3997 BBY, about one millennium after his death, the spirits of Ragnos and several other Dark lords were summoned from the grave by Exar Kun and Ulic Qel-Droma with the help of a pair of Sith amulets as part of an ancient prophecy. Awakened once again, he crowned Kun as the new Dark Lord of the Sith, his initiation into the dark side complete—with a single touch, Ragnos burned a mark of a Dark Lord into the center of Kun's forehead and Qel-Droma with that of a Shadow Hand, whom Ragnos said would become Kun's first and foremost apprentice, all in an attempt to restore the lost empire of a thousand years prior. The Great Sith War devastated the galaxy once again, but the Sith Empire was not restored.

At some point prior to 3963 BBY, Celeste Morne destroyed the last known copy of Ragnos' Epistle.

A thousand years after his physical death, during the Jedi Civil War, Revan and his companions visited he tomb of Marka Ragnos, during their search for the Star Forge. Revan had to enter the tomb and retrieve an old Sith artifact in order to impress Uthar Wynn so that Wynn would grant him access to Naga Sadow's tomb where a Star Map was located. Revan had to make his way to the Ragnos' tomb, which was protected by a rogue assassin droid. After battling the droid forces inside the tomb, Revan and his companions encountered the assassin droid. After conversing with the droid, he said that he was originally programmed to kill Jedi, but his Sith programmers made his cognitive systems more independent than they desired. Since then, the droid kept himself in isolation within the confines of Ragnos' tomb, building droids to aid in his protection. After that, the droid asked Revan for assistance in changing his programming, because, although the droid had developed the desire to not to kill, his programming was often at odds with his desires. Then, the droid offered Revan assistance to help him change his programming. After the reprogramming of the droid was successful, he offered Revan several of his redundant systems, so he could use them on other droids, and then the droid stated that he could escape from the planet, wishing well to Revan. Before exiting the tomb, Revan also found a pair of gauntlets that once belonged to Marka Ragnos. After that, Revan went out of the tomb, to gain prestige with Uthar Wynn.

A few decades after his death, Vitiate reconstituted Sith Empire once again. Vitiate ignited a new war against the Galactic Republic 1,319 years after Ragnos's death. By the time of the Galactic War, the ghost of Ragnos roamed the cave known as Architect's Hollow on the fourth moon of Yavin Prime.

At some point in his life, Darth Plagueis traveled to the Valley of the Dark Lords in Moraband. While there, he found no evidence that the spirits of Korriban were real, believing that those were mere diversions created for the credulous, but as Plagueis boarded his ship, he beheld a vision of Marka Ragnos. The apparition challenged Plagueis' claim to the Sith title, and railed against his plan to dismantle the traditions of Korriban. The vision however did not answer Plagueis' questions and inquiries. Instead, Ragnos snarled and disappeared in a whirl of smoke. After the experience, Plagueis wrote that it was possible that the entire episode, simply played out in his mind. Those texts were later acquired by Darth Sidious, Plagueis' former apprentice, and were included in a book he called, "Book of Sith".

Resurrection attempt: Thousands of years after his actual death, during the New Republic era in 14 ABY, Ragnos' spirit was intended to be resurrected from beyond the grave, this time summoned by a Sith cult known as the Disciples of Ragnos whose leader was Tavion Axmis, Desann's student.

With the help of an ancient scepter once used by Ragnos to drain residual Force energy, Tavion and her apprentice Alora siphoned the Force from many Force Nexuses all spread around the galaxy and used it to empower their followers. Tavion plotted to use the collected energy to resurrect Ragnos. After a hard campaign tracking the Disciples of Ragnos across the galaxy, the Jedi Order managed to track Tavion on Moraband. Jedi Luke Skywalker and Kyle Katarn were in charge of the campaign on Moraband, dispatching every available Jedi from the temple on Ossus among them, the Jedi Jaden Korr and Chris Shockley, who participated on almost every mission against the Disciples of Ragnos.

During the Battle of Moraband, Jaden and Chris managed to enter Ragnos' tomb, intending to stop Tavion. They were nearly too late, as she managed to resurrect Ragnos by allowing his spirit to possess her body, but Ragnos himself was nevertheless defeated by Korr. Ragnos' ghost was forced back into his sarcophagus, screaming out a dark promise that he would return.