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Marka Ragnos

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this ancient Dark Lord of the Sith ruled the galaxy with an iron fist some 5,000 years before the Galactic Civil War. Ragnos controlled the Sith Empire for more than a century before before he finally died, but expanded the Sith Empire very little during his tenure. Ragnos knew of, and feared, the power of the Old Republic, and chose to protect the Sith by keeping them isolated. After he died, funeral preparations were underway when the Daragon siblings happened upon Korriban, and interrupted the burial ceremony. Ragnos was buried with his predecessors in the Valley of the Dark Lords, with numerous living slaves entombed to assist him in the afterlife. The funeral consisted of twenty Dark Lords surrounding his body in a perfectly spaced circle, with Ludo Kressh presiding from the sixth position, opposite Simus in the sixteenth position. The death of Marka Ragnos led to a great uprising among the two major Sith factions, as each of them tried to promote their candidate to the vacant position of Dark Lord. Both Ludo Kressh and Naga Sadow believed that they were the next Dark Lord, and came to blows shortly after Ragnos' burial. Ragnos spirit - angered by the proceedings - returned from the dead to counsel them about choosing their battles wisely. Ragnos' spirit foresaw that their battle would bring about the end of the golden age of the Sith magicians. A millennium later, Ragnos' spirit again rose from the dead, when it named Exar Kun the newest Dark Lord of the Sith. Ragnos, however, lacked enough power to fully return, and remained as a spirit, trapped on Korriban for the next 4,000 years. Some ten years after the Battle of Endor, the Dark Jedi Tavion managed to acquire the Scepter of Ragnos, and began supplying it with Force energy. She then traveled to Korriban, in an effort to raise the spirit of Ragnos. Although she was intercepted by Jaden Korr, Tavion managed to transfer the power in the Scepter to Ragnos' spirit. The former Sith Lord rose up and tried to take over Tavion's body, but she was killed in combat with Korr. Ragnos then tried to kill Korr, but was unable to do so in his spirit form. Ragnos once again was trapped on the planet, although he vowed to find a way to escape.