Originally posted by Illustrious
Yes, TOTJ is more relevant concerning it's OWN criteria. And that is the Ancient Sith.What DE did was operate under the premise that the ancient Sith were only 2 millenia in age. This was further substantiated when the DE sourcebook said as much, which is the DE companion.
Furthermore, more recent sources have created and propped up the Ancient Sith to obscene levels. As mentioned in KotOR, they would make that era of force users look like children with lightsabers. Narratively, they are godlike force users.
Listen, you want to bring up the rehashed-done-to-death-no-one-can-prove-a-shit argument that Sidious threw that fight, you can, but you won't establish a thing. It's more blind speculation, you're the blind leading the blind.
Lightsnake was owned in his argument, he basically had none. His arguments did not make logical sense, used purely hyperbole, and was even caught lying at one point or another. You can search the thread, but all you'll find is several individuals pointing out just how fallacious his argumens was.
Ragnos' era produced the greatest, the Golden Age of Sith powers. The ancient Sith's very artifacts and remnant knowledge made generations of users become godlike individuals, yet you're going to argue that those individuals completely immersed within the culture and power-hungry society were weaklings? You're going to argue that the narrative canonically saying Ragnos was "the most powerful of the most powerful" is false? Has no relevance? Does not fit?
The guy was greater than Freedon Nadd, who NEVER met him in his life, and yet still was able to toss around force users and create avalanches in his death. The guy was greater than generations of Sith. He was the guy that made Luke's entire Jedi Order piss their pants with the mere threat of his revival by Tavion. Yes, he is superior to Yoda, any bit of inference will tell you that.
Ragnos was defeated by Jaden Korr....I win. 😐
But seriously I did some searching, apparently this was a sort of war, there were some points in your favor( the rest of KMC) but there were also, undeniably, points in Lightsnakes favor. Ill have to think about all this some more...