Disciples of Ragnos

The Disciples of Ragnos, also known as the Cult of Ragnos, was a Sith cult that worshipped the ancient Sith Lord Marka Ragnos, who died shortly before the Great Hyperspace War some five thousand years before the Battle of Yavin. Their ultimate goal was to resurrect him and use his power to take over the Galaxy.

Tavion
The Disciples were led by Tavion, former apprentice to the Dark Jedi, Desann and member of the Empire Youth. When Imperial Remnant faction&mdash;the Empire Reborn&mdash;occupied Bespin's Cloud City during the Reborn crisis, Kyle Katarn defeated Tavion, sparing her life when she revealed the ruse surrounding his partner's death. Katarn then went on to kill Desann and Galak and destroy most of the Reborn forces. The Empire Reborn and its leader, Hethrir, were finally destroyed by Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa on Crseih Research Station.

Having fled the Empire Reborn after Kyle's mercy, Tavion eventually found an ancient Sith artifact on Commenor, killing the trader who possessed it. Known as the Scepter of Ragnos, it could siphon Force energies from locations that possessed some residue of Force power. Eventually, enough energy would be siphoned for the wielder of the scepter to call upon the spirit of Ragnos to return from the netherworld of the Force.

Sith Cultists
The majority of the Disciples of Ragnos were the so-called Sith Cultists&mdash;warriors empowered with Force energy siphoned into the scepter. The Sith Cultists were trained either in lightsaber combat or various dark side force techniques, such as Force lightning, Force Grip and Force Drain.

New Reborn
Those of Desann's Reborn, who were not killed or captured during the Empire Reborn campaign, joined the cult as well, renaming themselves the New Reborn. The New Reborn were far superior to the Sith Cultists both in terms of lightsaber skills and Force abilities.

Affiliations
The cult cooperated with the Imperial Remnant as well as mercenaries and bounty hunters. Often both Imperials and mercenaries would fight side by side with members of the cult.

Cult activities
The disciples would seek out places tainted by the Dark Side of the Force, such as the Massassi Temples on Yavin 4, the dark side cave on Dagobah, the remains of Byss, and the Jedi tombs on Chandrila to siphon the residual Dark Side energies at those locations. Agents of the cult were dispatched all over the Galaxy on various obscure missions. Several of their missions were thwarted by Jedi from Luke Skywalker's Jedi Praxeum, such as Katarn's talented apprentice Jaden Korr.

The seduction of Rosh Penin
The cult managed to capture Katarn's other apprentice, Rosh Penin, and turn him to the Dark Side. Penin, now a Disciple of Ragnos himself, faced Korr in a duel in Bast Castle on Vjun. Backed up by the powerful Reborn Twins, Penin proved quite a challenge to Korr. Korr, however, managed to kill the twins, which enabled him to defeate Penin. Tavion managed to rescue Penin before Korr and Katarn could capture him. Penin eventually came to regret this and sent a distress call to Skywalker's Praxeum from the cult's base on Taspir III. Katarn and Korr went to Taspir to rescue him. The rescue mission culminated in a fierce duel between Korr and Alora, in which Penin lost his arm and Alora lost her life.

The Battle of Korriban
The Disciples of Ragnos gathered on Korriban, as Tavion began the process of using the Scepter of Ragnos to try and resurrect Marka Ragnos. An army of Jedi from Skywalker's Praxeum was dispatched to Korriban. An epic battle, the likes of which had not been seen since the Clone Wars broke out, as Jedi battled the Disciples of Ragnos across the desert and tombs of the Valley of the Dark Lords.

Marka Ragnos returns


In Marka Ragnos's Tomb, Tavion managed to invoke the spirit of the dead Sith lord and Ragnos returned to the Galaxy once more. Jaden Korr, who had fought his way through the Valley of the Dark Lords, had entered the tomb of Ragnos and engaged in an epic duel with the possessed Tavion.

The end of the Cult
Korr eventually defeated Tavion, forcing Ragnos back into the netherworld of the Force. When Ragnos left Tavion's body, it collapsed dead on the floor of the tomb. As Korriban was the graveyard for the Sith, it became the graveyard for the Disciples of Ragnos as well&mdash;Tavion among them. Korr destroyed the Scepter and sealed the entrance to Ragnos's tomb.

Dark side ending
Korr reached the Tomb of Ragnos and demanded the scepter from Tavion, which she refused. Korr proved to be too much for her in his rage and struck her down when she vowed not to cower as she did in the face of Kyle Katarn, who entered the tomb not long after she died. Korr battled his Jedi Master in one last fierce duel before using the power of the Scepter to knock him unconscious and bury him among rocks. He then blasted his way out of the tomb and escaped the planet on a hijacked Star Destroyer. Any remaining members of the cult were most likely stranded on Korriban, as the Star Destroyer was the only form of escape they had.

Prominent cult members

 * Tavion Axmis
 * Alora
 * Dasariah Kothos
 * Vil Kothos
 * Rosh Penin
 * Lannik Racto
 * J'aahn
 * Hokk

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

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