Naga Sadow and the Star Map?

Playing KOTOR for the nth time...and only now does is dawn on me...

What was Naga Sadow doing with the Star Map?

Given the nature of the tombs in the Valley, I'm gonna make the guess that Sadow wasn't buried at the location of the Star Map...rather is was transfered to inside his tomb.

So...

Do we assume it was like his darkside nightlight? a pretty picture of a galaxy he looked at a drifted off to devilish dreams of conquest?

or

Did he have a clue about what the thing was for...and put effort into it.

and...

what does this mean in terms of potential to the "real sith" return in TOR? Could the "Real Sith" have other Rakatan trinkets and surprises waiting to be unleashed?

Am I like 6 years behind here...I checked the wook for anything tying this together and didn't see anything.

Anybody?

 

Naga Sadow and the Star Map of Korriban. Coming soon from Matthew Stover.

KOTOR had a weird, never-quite-resolved series of hints in the Korriban portions of the game suggesting a link between the Rakata and Sith, the idea that the ancient Sith somehow built on a Rakatan heritage, or were aware of and used Rakatan tech. But it's never really elaborated on what the connection is. Sadow's connection to the Star Map is part of the same missing-link problem.

I'd ultimately have to guess that it was just a trophy, an ancient relic, and that he never unlocked its secrets. He might have had an inkling that it could be important, but I don't think he really got anything out of it. Remember that the Rakatan tech is self-repairing, so a thousand years before KOTOR, the maps would have been even more fragmentary (which is good for reasons which probably flew over the head of the KOTOR writing team -- if the Sith had a galactic map with routes to planets outside Sith space, it would be hard to explain the significance of the Daragons/why they didn't expand before).

 

I thought that they had made it explicit that the Sith race (long before the Sith Order) on Korriban had been visited by the Rakatans during the Infinite Empire, but beat them back. The Star Map may have been a "trophy relic" captured from the Rakatans or something of that nature.

 

I've always been more interested in the (possible) implications that the Exiles made use of the Star Forge. Methinks that, maybe, the first "Darths" encountered by the Jedi and the Republic were actually amongst the Dark Jedi they battled during the 100 Year Darkness.

Ajunta Pall: It... we were not the first to fall to the dark side. But we... had more power than those before us. It... came from elsewhere... Our oldest secret. Only... only we would know, we lords. Only we would know where our power came from...

Though Revan asks: "Is the secret the Star Map" it seems... unlikely that such is the case. I know that the maps attracted the dark side, somewhat, but I can't imagine that the one in Sadow's tomb would be that beneficial to the Sith Lords. And, frankly, I think the possibility of the Exiles either discovering - or being the true creators of - the Trayus Academy on Malachor V has a lot of potential.

I mean, it has always been a very interesting coincidence that a bunch of Dark Jedi exiles would just happen to stumble across a dark side using culture that so readily embraced them as gods, isn't it? And I'm intrigued by the possibility that, if the Trayus Academy preceded them, the Dark Jedi made use of Sith teachings - and the label "Sith" - even before they became LORDS of the Sith people.

Makes more sense of Odan Urr discussing the "History of the Sith" before the Exiles have returned as Sith Lords, too.

 

I have to be honest, I'm still confused as to why Naga Sadow would be interred on Korriban at all. I had always thought he died in his exile on Yavin IV.

 

He did. The tomb on Korriban was created as soon as he became Dark Lord, he just never got the chance to occupy it.

 

I think it's the confusing abruptness of TOTJ GAotS and FotSE in the depiction of the war that makes me hate those comics. Naga Sadow's arc is wrapped up there, but apparently that war is a whole lot longer than it appears to be. Just from the comic you'd think "when would the Sith have had time to build the guy a tomb... he was at war within and without for his entire brief stint as Dark Lord..." I mean, he doesn't seem from the comics to have been Dark Lord for more than a few months. But apparently it was years now.

The Sith War is like that too. Thanks KJA...