What his role in the Great Sith War? What about his opposition to Vitiate? That's far more than "ruling a static Empire".

 

There's definitely ways to write books about Ragnos during his lifetime that are interesting and depict a Sith Civil War or something like that. But the general impression that is given by Golden Age of the Sith, and the general premise that it flows from, is that the Sith Empire long ago conquered "known space," and has spent a long time resting on its laurels, with the Sith Lords involved in byzantine maneuvering while avoiding outright conflict beyond duels. This is why Naga Sadow's desire to invade the Republic is so radical, and why he needs a casus belli to justify it with the other Sith Lords.

Marka Ragnos' lived over a century not because he was awesome, but because he was safe, and it was a Pax Sithica or something along those lines.

As for a book about him as a Sith spirit, I'm not sure if a novel should depict events from the point of view of an apparition, Jedi or Sith. That's something that should be kept mysterious.

I suppose I should note that I haven't read Revan so I really know nothing about Vitiate or how that depicts the Sith Empire of Ragnos, so perhaps that has already done the work and I'm just ignorant of it, in which case perhaps there's a foundation for a novel.

 

Now I agree and all that Lord Ragnos is awesome and all. But lets go back to his predecessor. An even more powerful and mysterious IMO is Tulak Hord. We've never even seen a depiction of the Old Sith Empire lightsaber-wielding Dark Lord

 

His Deshada servant Khem Val is over 2000 at the start of TOR. I'm assuming that means closer to 2000 than 3000. That puts them both mid 5000s BBY. Around 5500 BBY. Which would actually put them closer to Marka Ragnos then Ajunta Pall. Just saying.

 

I don't see how a spirit's point of view is any different from that of a living person. Also, it's clear that as a spirit, Ragnos was getting stuff done. Stuff that needs further explanation.

There's also stuff that he might have gotten done when he was alive. For example, he may have forseen that the Sith Empire was going to fall and begun setting the Great Sith War in motion based on that.

 

RE: Ragnos novel.

I'd love a novel centred on the dynastic politics of the ancient Sith Empire. If that involved the rise of Marka and ended with the climatic duel in which he struck Simus' head from his shoulders... well, that'd be fine.

 

We already know what happened, not enough tension, but something like that would be neat.

 

Suggesting he was Ajunta Pall's successor? I like that, it sounds a lot like Thrawn returning to Imperial space after Endor. Btw, I'm supposed to be getting the Books of Sith in the mail, is Tulak Hord mentioned?

 

I wonder if http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/First_battle_between_Jedi_and_Sith led to Kressh's isolationism.

 

I'd bet that the lack of Hord information is because Hord didn't get anything done.

 

And Bioware is saving information and backstory for the end-of-TOR that will never happen.

 

He expanded it's borders from what the Exiles had to start with to what the Empire is during the Golden Age.

 

Really? I was under the impression that the expansion was over a long period of time.

 

Oh yeah Tulak Hord is really expanded upon in TOR through Khem Val. Albeit Khem Val's opinion is very high and perhaps exaggerated on Hord he expanded to the Dromund system and won the battles of Yn and Caboash (sp?)

 

Hansa, are you aware that Korriban's existence in the EU just might be thanks to KJA?

 

Hansa?

 

<-- Hansa.

And yeah -- pretty sure it was KJA who came up with Korriban. Possibly his most lasting creation in the SW universe.

 

It was KJA and Veitch together. It came up during a chat they had at lunch during the writing of Dark Lords of the Sith.

 

I wonder how KOTOR 3 would have looked like if they had decided to finish it...