DE Sidious is the weakest link here...
If powerful Ancient sith lords like Naga Sadow and Ludo Kressh, who had no equals after them, were afraid of Ragnos, what makes you think 2 or even 3 less powerful Sith lords would stand a chance?
When you are described as having "A terrifying grasp of the dark side", you are uber l337.. Or if you're Artoo..
Ok well then what makes you think those two are not more powerful than anyone after them? They were both 2nd in the Golden Age of the Sith at a time when the most powerful of the most powerful existed. Not to mention Kun only became uber powerful after he learned Sith Magic from the notes of Sadow, and took his amulet. The power he gained and the damage he wreaked speaks volumes about Sadow's power.
Ok well then what makes you think those two are not more powerful than anyone after them?
You just asked me to prove a negative. Good debating...
They were both 2nd in the Golden Age of the Sith at a time when the most powerful of the most powerful existed.
Okay. Quantify their power in comparison to Ragnos', then.
What's that? You can't? This is circumstantial and means nothing?
So I guess that random mynock X must be able to take Exar Kun because he once flew by Ragnos.
Not to mention Kun only became uber powerful after he learned Sith Magic from the notes of Sadow, and took his amulet.
Actually we already knew he was the most formidible student that Vodo had ever had and that his becoming more powerful coincided with him embracing the Dark Side.
Oh, and it's also shown that he has created amulets just like the ancients did. Here's your proof:
That's the original amulet. Note that it's on his left hand.
Note that the original amulet Kun retrieves goes on his left hand, but in this scan he has a similar one on his right hand.
I circled the earring as pure speculation. He doesn't have it in Dark Lords of the Sith and I'm hesitant to believe he wears it for decoration.
The power he gained and the damage he wreaked speaks volumes about Sadow's power.
It doesn't speak shit about Sadow's power, it speaks about Kun's. It may speak about Sadow's knowledge but for the most part we cannot determine which of Kun's abilities were derived from the works of Sadow.
He didn't invent the Sun Crusher, and we do not know how much Kun learned from Sadow. Ergo, it is faulty to say that Sadow is automatically superior to him, especially since Kun learned many things from other sources (his Jedi training, for example).
Anyway, Sadow's ship had a weapon that could channel the Force to rip the cores from stars and cause them to go nova.
Exar Kun sacrificed this weapon, casually I might add, to get to the secrets of Ossus. This leads me to believe that he may understand how to create another weapon like it.
Well as you have stated, A Sadow - Kun fight would be inconclusive...as we do not have enough evidence to support it
However, in a physical fight Kressh may have stalemated Sadow, but if they continued i do believe that Sadow will best Kressh...pure speculation
But i assume due to the fact that Sadow's knowledge did significantly increase Kun's power in the sense he had more knowledge, that Sadow is superior to kressh
We do not know that Sadow's knowledge alone increased Kun's power, woot. And even if it did, how does that fact alone automatically make Sadow his superior? That's like claiming the guy that invented basketball is better at it than Michael Jordan.
Yes, my analogy doesn't exactly flow, but it is the same principle.