Naga Sadow
After the death of Dark Lord
Marka Ragnos, who had reigned for over a century, Naga Sadow and
Ludo Kressh were the two aspirants to the throne. Their incipient internecine war was narrowly averted when the apparently-dead Marka Ragnos reappeared as a Sith spirit, warning of the threat posed to the entire Sith Empire by the Jedi Order and the Old Republic, urging them to direct their martial efforts into preparation and conquest. This precarious homeostasis was broken with the simultaneous appearance of an Old Republic scout. The two co-eval rulers of this diarchy split over how to deal with the captured twins,
Gav Daragon and
Jori Daragon; Sadow argued for using the information the twins had to launch a surprise invasion of the Old Republic, and soon, where Kressh held for killing the two to guarantee they could not inform the Old Republic of what they found, and launching any invasion later, when they could have made adequate martial preparations. Sensing that the popular support of Kressh meant that his policies would lose (and by extension that Sadow himself would be removed from the diarchy and probably killed), Sadow staged a breakout of the twins, leaving evidence that it was perpetrated by Republic commandos. As a final touch, Sadow executed his beloved mentor,
Simus. This strategem worked perfectly, and the other Sith Lords rallied around Sadow, allowing Sadow to annihilate Kressh's fleet and flagship. Naga Sadow then invaded the
Old Republic, but his armies were defeated by the combined forces of the Old Republic fleet and the
Jedi Knights. In disarray, the Sith forces fell back to the bastions of the Sith Empire- where they discovered to their dismay that Kressh had not in fact died aboard his flagship, and had indeed mustered his forces- which then attacked the remnants of Sadow's fleet. Midway through the conflict, a vanguard of the Old Republic, having followed Sadow in his flight, was set upon both Sith factions. Sadow lost all of his fleet except for his flagship fleeing Kressh and the Old Republic. He retained a host of his
Massassi warriors however. Sadow faked his death by passing through a binary-star system and causing them to supernova in the midst of his pursuer. Though Sadow and his forces barely survived, the Old Republic was convinced that the instigator of the Great Hyperspace War was finally dead, and stood down its fleets. Sadow continued to flee to the far reaches of the universe, finally coming to rest on the fourth moon of
Yavin. The Sith warlord began experimenting on his followers, transforming them into bestial monstrosities. This resulted in to the Beast Wars in the
Onderon system. Despite this, his Massassi slaves treated him like a god, building huge temples to honor him. His tomb is seen in the
video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and its sequel,
The Sith Lords, on
Korriban, the Sith homeworld.
Later, Naga Sadow's spirit appeared and he became the Master of
Freedon Nadd, giving him much Sith lore and artifacts aboard his now-buried flagship. However, in his weakened state as a spirit, Freedon Nadd was able to overthrow him and ended up killing Naga Sadow before he could reach his full potential. Whatever the truth, neither Naga Sadow nor his spirit were around by the time
Exar Kun arrived on
Yavin IV centuries later.
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