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Front Page Titles (by Subject) Sect. I.: 1789. - Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, vol. 1
Return to Title Page for Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, vol. 1The Online Library of LibertyA project of Liberty Fund, Inc.Sect. I.: 1789. - Gustave de Beaumont, Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, vol. 1 [1839]Edition used:Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, ed. W.C. Taylor (London: Richard Bentley, 1839). Vol. 1.
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Sect. I.1789.The French revolution found an immense echo in the miseries and passions of Ireland; it introduced new elements of reform into that country. Until then, the chiefs of the popular party, that is to say, the Whigs, having at their head Grattan and Lord Charlemont,* pursued liberty, such as it is understood by the English, that is to say, feudal liberty, claimed and obtained as a privilege and under the name of concession. When the influence of France made itself felt, the liberals of Ireland invoked liberty as a right—a right natural, general, and imprescriptible. The radical who demanded reform in the name of Magna Charta, henceforth claimed it as part of the rights of man. Irish reform thus assumed a philosophical character, which it had hitherto completely wanted; its circle was enlarged, it had higher aims, and it advanced farther. All those who were embued by this philosophical spirit, could not comprehend the refusal to Catholics of the rights recognised as belonging to Protestants; all men being equal, they ought to share equally in the benefits of the constitution, and hence universal suffrage followed as a necessary consequence. All minds were then seized with an ardent fever of general innovation. Society was to be made anew; all reforms were to be proposed at once; social reform, political reform, religious reform. Everybody had his system, and everybody had speculated on the plan of a new constitution.* The French revolution agitated all nations; but there was not a country in the world to which the impulse was communicated so quickly and so faithfully as Ireland. Henceforth Irishmen had their eyes fixed on France, and everything which passed in that country excited their deepest sympathy. The cause of France was, in their eyes, that of all enslaved nations who aspired to freedom. "Right or wrong," said Wolf Tone, who only gave vent to sentiments generally felt, "right or wrong, success to the French. They are fighting our battles, and if they fail, adieu to liberty in Ireland for another century!" Not only did Ireland sympathise with France and assume its passions, but it even adopted its manners, its language, the style of its laws, and all its new revolutionary allurements. The volunteers of Dublin assumed the name of a national guard, (but a proclamation was issued against their meeting, and they never assembled on parade). The triumph of French liberty was annually celebrated at Dublin and Belfast. The anniversary of the capture of the Bastile became a national festival. In public assemblies the cap of liberty was substituted for the Irish harp. Orators at clubs and meetings styled themselves citizens of the world. The following toasts were given at civic banquets, (in 1792,) "The sovereignty of the people," "The rights of man," "May philosophy illuminate all nations and people, and make them one great family." At a national festival, a flag, bearing the goddess of liberty, was displayed with the inscription, "To our sister of Gaul. She was born the 14th of July, 1789,—we are yet in embryo." Ireland rejoiced in all the triumphs of France, and grieved at her reverses. A victory obtained by the French on the Rhine was celebrated by a general illumination in Dublin. The press shared the imitation of French language: patriotic letters bore the signature of "A Liberty Boy;"* friends gave each other the title of "Citizen," and United Irishmen raised the cry of "Long live the Nation!" When a French expedition, sent in 1798 to revolutionise Ireland, landed in Killala bay, on the western coast, the following song was widely circulated through the country. A SONG OF THE UNITED IRISHMEN.*
V.Sometimes Irish patriotism blundered in its adoption of French language and symbols; thus, in one song the Fleur-de-lys appears to have been mistaken for a symbol of republican France.
But it is to the French revolution that we must especially attribute the immense change which took place in the feelings and principles of the Irish Volunteers. Liberal as the volunteers were, they did not cease to be Protestants, and they sought for themselves only the liberties and privileges of which, either from prejudice or religious passion, they believed the Catholics unworthy. They had, it is true, claimed for them some modifications of the penal laws, but they rather sought an abatement of persecution than a return to justice. Their liberalism was never entirely free from a sectarian spirit. They treated the Catholics as inferiors, even when they lent them aid, and exercised over them a sort of patronage; but in 1792, in order to unite all ranks and parties, they took the name of United Irishmen.* This new union between Protestants and Catholics was not only manifested by political acts, it was manifested in the minor details of social life. A patriotic dinner was given at Belfast, where Protestants and Catholics sat side by side in token of their harmony. The metamorphosis of the volunteers into United Irishmen is one of the most remarkable facts of this epoch, and deserves especially to fix the attention of the reader. And, in the first place, the principal trait in the character of the United Irishmen was, that they derived the greater part of their inspiration from France. We see in Tone's Memoirs, that one of the principal objects of the committee was, to verify and publish everything of importance which occurred in France. This was a new starting-point for Irish freedom. Until then, the Irish revolutionist had been chiefly inspired by American genius; now he invoked at the same time the names of Washington and Lafayette, of Franklin and Mirabeau. The military organisation of the United Irishmen was entirely modelled on that of the volunteers, but their principles were not the same. The volunteers of Ireland were associated to protect Ireland from an invasion of the enemies of England. The United Irishmen were openly friends to France, and bargained with her for an invasion. But what especially characterises the transformation of the volunteers into United Irishmen was the sudden and fundamental change wrought in their political principles. They suddenly exhibited a violent hatred of the Whigs, and a thorough contempt for the slow and regular progress of reform. Hitherto they endeavoured to obtain the abolition of oppressive statutes, and the enactment of good laws from the English government and their own parliament; they now required an entire change of system. They wanted either a complete, absolute reform, or to have nothing altered. We find from his Memoirs that Tone was grieved because a partial emancipation (1793) might give the Catholics some satisfaction. "The English yoke must be shaken off!"—"The connexion with England, the source of all Ireland's woes, must be broken!"—"To ameliorate the condition of the people, a vile and odious aristocracy must be humbled."—"In emancipating Ireland, the right arm of England must be cut away." Such were the wishes, the sentiments, and the new principles of the Irish reformers. In proportion as republican France advanced in revolutionary paths, they followed her. The doctrine that "the end justifies the means" was established in Ireland, and ardent friends of their country and of freedom were seen using their utmost endeavours to produce a French invasion. Here is the order of their ideas: "Ireland must be delivered from the English yoke; she is too weak to emancipate herself; there is consequently a necessity for asking assistance from a stranger." All the ardent patriots eagerly invoked the aid of the French armies. "Ten thousand men would suffice to separate Ireland from England," said Tone, in 1793. And what will be done when the government is overthrown? Terrible dreams of vengeance and extermination presented themselves to the minds of some of the reformers. "The aristocrats," said Tone, "have no mercy, and deserve none." Still, in the midst of these revolutionary meditations, Wolf Tone, the head of the United Irishmen, who came to France to negociate for an invasion with the Directory, was brought into connexion with General Hoche, the head of the intended expedition, who, in a private conversation with the Irish patriot, used the following memorable words: "When you guillotine a man, you get rid of an individual, it is true, but then you make all his friends and connexions for ever enemies to the government." Struck by this language, Wolf Tone adopted the opinion, that, in case of a revolution, it would be better to avoid sanguinary retaliation. [*]The following character of this distinguished nobleman is taken from Grattan's reply to Lord Clare's pamphlet:— [*]The very able sketch of the state of the public mind in Ireland during the French revolution, given by M. de Beaumont, will be recognised as perfectly accurate by all acquainted with the publications of that period. The principal authorities quoted by M. de Beaumont are Tone's Memoirs, Hardy's Life of Lord Charlemont, and a collection of detached papers called Belfast Politics, published at Belfast, 1794. The mention of these authorities here will supersede the necessity of further reference.—Tr. [*]This is a cant phrase in Dublin, and not an imitation of the French; part of Dublin is called "The Liberty."—Tr. [*]This song was found on the mother of Dogherty, a United Irishman, who was killed at Delgany, in the county of Wicklow, in the autumn of 1798.—From Mulgrave's Irish Rebellions, Second Edition, p. 78 of Appendix. [*]This name was first proposed by T. W. 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This shift, coupled with seasonal variation, might make for a confusing winter for users of weather.com, with more surprise raindrops or snowfalls than usual. As it is, the wet bias tends to diminish naturally in the colder months, Dr. Neilley said. That is because in the summer, many rain forecasts materialize as isolated showers, which most people don't experience. In the fall and winter, wetness tends to be more widespread.
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- "The Sith Empire will burn brightly, like a supernova, dwarfing the complacent Republic. We shall hold the entire galaxy in our grasp."
- ―Naga Sadow
Naga Sadow, also known as Darth Naga Sadow, was a male Sith Lord, and renowned dark side magician during the days of the first Sith Empire. Sadow had ancestors among both humans and the Sith species of the planet Ziost. He rose to prominence in the final days of the Sith Golden Age, when Marka Ragnos, the reigning Dark Lord of the Sith, passed away, leaving the mantle of Dark Lord vacant. During Ragnos' funeral, Sadow engaged in a duel with rival Sith Lord Ludo Kressh for Ragnos' title, only to have their contest ended by the spectre of the deceased Dark Lord himself. After a brief admonition, the ghost departed while issuing a warning to both Sadow and Kressh, stating that the fate of the Sith Empire hung on the balance of their decision on how to proceed with leadership of the Sith people.
However, the unexpected arrival of two hyperspace-traveling siblings on Korriban, Gav and Jori Daragon, immediately spurred Sadow's progressive nature. Seeing them as passports to an ideal opportunity for conquest of the Galactic Republic from which they originated, Sadow masterminded a plot that resulted in his ascendance to Dark Lord of the Sith, with many of the lesser Sith Lords swearing fealty to him—save Ludo Kressh and those loyal to him. Kressh in turn gathered his own followers, and made an attempt on Sadow's life, striking at his decoy-fortress on the planet of Khar Delba in error. Kressh's attack was thus fruitless, and his forces were defeated by those of Naga Sadow. Now the undisputed ruler of the Sith Empire, Sadow allowed one of the alien travelers, Jori, to return home in feigned earnest; he was in truth allowing the girl to unwittingly lead his forces directly to the Republic.
Daragon made her way to the Empress Teta system to warn the Republic of the impending Sith invasion, but the Sith fleet emerged from hyperspace before an ample defense could be mustered. Leading the Sith forces from his personal meditation sphere, Sadow gave command of his flagship to Gav Daragon, and the Sith launched attacks against various unsuspecting Republic worlds. However, Sadow was betrayed by Gav when he fired upon the Dark Lord's sphere and interrupted his meditations, causing the illusions he had been projecting to fade. The tide of battle immediately turned in favor of the Republic as the bulk of Sadow's forces simply disappeared, and the war ultimately lost to the invaders. His fleet in shambles, Sadow then fled back to Sith space, where he engaged in a final battle with Ludo Kressh, one that resulted in the latter's death. Under the forces of Empress Teta, the Republic followed Sadow to his Empire, in an attempt to destroy the remaining Sith, once and for all. Sadow fled to Yavin 4 with his remaining Massassi warriors, where he hoped to rebuild the Empire.
Failing in his goal, Sadow entered a Sith sarcophagus to wait for someone to seek him out to continue the Sith Empire. 600 years later the fallen Jedi Freedon Nadd arrived on Yavin 4, awakening Sadow from his slumber. After he learned all he could, Nadd killed Sadow and left Yavin 4 to rule over the planet Onderon as the new Dark Lord. But Sadow's spirit survived and would continue to haunt Yavin 4 with all of the Massassi to guard his tomb.
The death of Marka Ragnos
- "You have held us back long enough, keeping the Sith Empire from its great destiny."
- ―Naga Sadow, to Ludo Kressh
Naga Sadow lived circa 5000 BBY, 20,000 years after the formation of the Old Republic.[7] Sadow was descended from the Dark Jedi who had fled the Republic after the Hundred-Year Darkness, with only minimal Sith blood to dilute his Human lineage.[1]
As Sadow grew, he was trained by the Sith Lord Simus, one-time rival of Marka Ragnos.[6] Sadow would develop his own rivalry with fellow Sith Lord Ludo Kressh, leading to severe confrontations between the two several times. After the death of Marka Ragnos, the two Sith Lords emerged as favorites to succeed him as Dark Lord. During the funeral of Ragnos on Korriban, Sadow and Kressh engaged in a duel of Sith swords, after a disagreement as to who would better serve the Empire as Dark Lord. They were interrupted by the spirit of Marka Ragnos, who told of a great past and an uncertain future for the Sith Empire, encouraging the Sith to band together.[7]
Moments later, hyperlane mappers Gav and Jori Daragon arrived, hoping to establish a trade relationship with the Republic. They were quickly captured and sent to the underground Sith prison on Ziost soon after.[7]
Fate of the Daragons
- "They must be precursors to an invasion…we should kill them at once!"
"No—not until we interrogate them. They may be alien spies…or they may be the key to ripe new fields for the Sith Lords to conquer." - ―Ludo Kressh and Naga Sadow discuss the Daragons
Naga Sadow, meeting with nine other Sith Lords on Ziost, the central world of the Sith Empire, discussed the Daragon's ultimate fate. Ludo Kressh demanded that they be killed immediately, citing that they would return to the Republic, which would attack with a large military force. As was usually the case between the two, Naga Sadow (along with his former master Simus) passionately disagreed with Kressh, outlining the possibilities of keeping them as prisoners to his fellow Sith. The following speech of his won over many of those present.[6]
Sadow later sent a group of his loyal Massassi guards to the impound dock of Ziost, where the Daragons' ship, the Starbreaker 12, was being held, to steal a distinct Republic blaster from the cargo hold. He gathered a strike group of his Massassi and infiltrated the Ziost prison, freeing the Daragons, killing anyone in their way, including Sadow's former mentor Simus. After purposefully leaving the Republic blaster behind, Naga took the Daragons to his private fortress on Khar Shian, the moon of Khar Delba.[6]
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- Naga Sadow: "Now I am the Dark Lord of the Sith."
- First soldier: "My Lord…"
- Second soldier: "Protect us from the enemies that beset our empire, Naga Sadow!"
- ―Naga Sadow, immediately after receiving the mark of the Dark Lords[src]
Naga Sadow returned to Ziost to find a meeting underway regarding the recent attack. The other Sith Lords, most of all Ludo Kressh, were angered by the apparent Republic rescue of Gav and Jori Daragon, and Sadow, pretending to be shocked at the death of Simus, insisted that they must retaliate against the Republic. Further, he insisted that he be crowned the new Dark Lord of the Sith, promising to not falter in the face of the "new threat." All but Ludo Kressh of the Sith Lords were unanimously giving this title for him,[6] soon earning the ceremonial circular mark on his forehead to signify this.[8] He then took the title of "Darth" for himself.
It was around this time that Naga Sadow transported Jori Daragon to his decoy fortress on Khar Shian's host planet of Khar Delba, to isolate the siblings from each other. His aim in doing this was to begin teaching Gav Daragon ancient Sith magic, sensing his innate strength in the Force. Before long, Gav began forming images out of thin air, noting the dissimilarity between it and what the Jedi attempted to teach him when he was a child.[8]
Naga Sadow once again sent his Massassi to Ziost, this time to capture the Daragons' starship, the Starbreaker 12, and transport it to Khar Delba. In the bloody massacre that preceded the ship's commandeering, the Massassi once more left behind a clue, this one being Naga Sadow's emblem. It wasn't long after this that, upon seeing the evidence left behind, Ludo Kressh attacked Sadow's decoy fortress on Khar Delba.[8]
Ludo Kressh, along with allied Sith Lords Dor Gal-ram and Horak-mul,[8] bombarded the icy planet with a large fleet of battleships. Naga Sadow, planting a homing beacon on the Starbreaker 12, encouraged Jori Daragon to flee to safety. She was hesitant to leave without her brother, but Naga was able to convince her to leave. After confirming her leap to hyperspace, the Dark Lord called upon his fleet on Khar Shian, surprising and overwhelming Kressh's forces. Naga Sadow, with the press of a button, commanded Massassi loyal to him on Horak-mul and Dor Gal-ram's ships to kill their captains, and they did so without question. Following this and brutal attacks from the Khar Shian fleet, Ludo Kressh had no choice but to retreat.[9]
Later, as Naga Sadow's Massassi workers attempted to repair the considerable damage done to the Dark Lord's decoy fortress, Gav Daragon was transported to Khar Delba at Sadow's request. Once he arrived, Naga Sadow began to convince him to assist the Sith Empire in his invasion of the Republic; Gav, tied up in the whereabouts of his sister, was easily manipulated. Shortly thereafter, during a meeting in the Dark Lord's war room, what was unbeknownst to Naga Sadow a decoy fleet of ships arrived at the fortress on Khar Delba, relaying a hologram message of Ludo Kressh. Sadow ordered Gav to press a button on the wall, causing what would seem to be Kressh's flagship to explode. Ignoring Gav's shock from killing someone, Naga Sadow began preparing his forces for their invasion.[10]
Assistance in his war effort came from all across the Sith Empire, including from Ch'hodos and its ruler, Sith Lord Shar Dakhan. Gathering a massive fleet of warships, each carrying thousands of Massassi warriors and gigantic war beasts retrieved from various Sith worlds. The Dark Lord himself sat in his comparatively small meditation sphere, ominously shaped like an eye. As his fleet converged over Khar Shian, Naga Sadow appointed Gav Daragon to commander of the attack on Koros Major, Gav's home planet. And with that, the fleet made the jump to hyperspace, prepared for anything the Republic might throw at them.[11]
The Great Hyperspace War
- "My plan has worked perfectly…now, without question, the Sith Empire is mine. So, too, will be the Republic."
- ―Naga Sadow, plotting against the Galactic Republic
The Sith fleet's first encounter was with the Starbreaker 12, under new ownership of Ssk Kahorr, who had recently acquired it as recompense for damages done to his business by Jori Daragon. The Sith promptly destroyed the Starbreaker 12, and Sadow assured Gav, who feared for his sister, that there were no Human lifeforms aboard. Gav's ships then made their way to Koros Major, with Naga Sadow traveling to the massive star Primus Goluud to meditate.[12]
From here, Sadow formed great illusions on the battlefields of Koros Major, Coruscant and Kirrek, creating mirages of war beasts and Massassi troops, weakening the resolve in his Jedi and Republic opponents, as well as those planets' civilians. This meditation was eventually interrupted by Gav Daragon, who, piloting one of his capital ships, fired upon the Dark Lord's meditation sphere, breaking his concentration and causing his magical illusions to fade, eventually leading to Sith defeats on all three planets.[13]
Naga Sadow lured Gav to his meditation sphere, asking to discuss the matter peacefully. Gav agreed, taking his personal shuttle to the damaged craft, but the Dark Lord was gone by the time he arrived. As a small fleet of Koros ships, commanded by Empress Teta herself, and including Jori Daragon, arrived, Gav transmitted coordinates to the Sith Empire to the Empress, citing that all of their defenses were away invading the Republic. Moments later, the regrouped Sith fleet led by Naga Sadow arrived, apparently focusing the Force through his flagship into Primus Goluud before withdrawing to hyperspace. As explosions started to ripple all over the supergiant, Gav yelled at Jori to leave, and reluctantly, she and the opposing fleets did so just before the star went nova.[13]
The Dark Lord's fleet came out of hyperspace over Korriban, and were quickly confronted by a large contingent of Ludo Kressh's ships. Ludo Kressh declared himself the new Dark Lord of the Sith, casting Naga Sadow out of the Sith Empire forever. A brief space battle ensued between the two, until Naga Sadow crashed one of his own ships into Ludo's flagship, killing the self-proclaimed Dark Lord.[14]
Moments later, Empress Teta's forces arrived above Korriban, and attacked Sadow's fleet. The Koros ships quickly took advantage, crippling the Dark Lord's flagship. As a last resort, Naga Sadow ordered the Massassi on two of his ships to kill their captains, forming a barricade between himself and the Republic ships. A small squadron of starfighters followed Sadow however, but he once again used the Force to manipulate solar flares, this time on the nearby Denarii stars, causing them as well to go nova, destroying the starfighters and their pilots. Empress Teta, presuming Sadow to have died in the explosion, recalled her fleet and returned to Koros Major.[14]
Naga Sadow, with his lone ship, retreated to the remote moon of Yavin 4, fourth moon of Yavin Prime.[14] It was here that he conducted alchemical experiments on his Massassi warriors, causing them to mutate from red-skinned Humanoids into fearsome, savage, hunchbacked predators.[15] Due to the earned loyalty, his Massassi slaves treated him like a god despite these abuses, building huge temples to honor their Sith Lord. Naga Sadow had hopes of reconstructing a new base to form a new Sith Empire, but this was never realized by him.[14]
Legacy of the Dark Lord
- "I cannot fail like this! Conquest is the destiny of the Sith Empire!"
- ―Naga Sadow
Sadow encased himself in a suspended animation chamber, beneath the focusing chamber of a primary temple, where he remained in a coma-like trance for centuries, waiting for someone to call upon his power and continue the history of the Sith.[16] He remained in suspended animation until 4400 BBY, when a dark-hearted Jedi named Freedon Nadd arrived on Yavin 4, awakening Sadow's spirit.[2] Nadd learned the ways of the Sith from Sadow's spirit and King Adas's Holocron and then attempted to destroy Naga Sadow's spirit after gleaning information about Sith Sorcery and plundering Sadow's vaults for Sith artifacts.[2][17] Nadd then traveled to the planet Onderon, which he conquered and made his own; there he proclaimed himself the new Dark Lord of the Sith.[2][17]
While Sadow never created a new Sith Empire as he dreamed, another Dark Lord, who managed to escape in the Unknown Regions, later rebuilt the Empire and even attacked the Republic more than a thousand years later.[18]
During Sadow's reign the Sith constructed a tomb for him on Korriban. The tomb did house a Star Map left behind by the Infinite Empire, and Naga Sadow's poison blade. During the Great Hunt, Shaela Nuur died in this tomb while fighting two terentateks. This tomb was later used by the Sith academy Master Uthar Wynn as a final test for Sith hopefuls to join the Sith Order, in which a student would have to retrieve a Sith lightsaber from the farthest room in the tomb, where the Star Map was located. Here it was that Revan and Malak found the Star Map, and later Revan returned after his memory was wiped to again find the Star Map. After Revan retrieved the Star Map and the lightsaber, he killed Master Uthar Wynn as Wynn's treacherous apprentice, Yuthura Ban, looked on. Revan also defeated Ban in a duel immediately afterward, but spared her life and allowed her to return to the light. The tomb was also later visited by the Jedi Exile Meetra Surik, though she could not enter it as its door was blocked.[19]
In 3756 BBY, Jedi Master Barel Ovair and his Padawan Eison Gynt traveled to Yavin 4 to explore Sadow's tomb. The Jedi found that Sadow's Massassi warriors survived the bombardment of the moon during the Great Sith War, and were promptly attacked by the beasts. They fled inside the temple, and only Ovair returned to Coruscant. The Jedi Master lied in his report to the Jedi Council that Gynt was killed. Gynt was still alive, and was eventually possessed by Sadow's spirit. Using the Padawan's body, the Dark Lord reached Coruscant years later, and fought Ovair, but lost. Later, Jedi historian Gnost-Dural ascertained that Ovair was in reality a Sith, who infiltrated the Jedi Order. His orders from the Sith Emperor were to seal Naga Sadow's spirit, so that the dead Dark Lord would not interfere with the Emperor's plans.[4]
Sometime in his life Sadow wrote a treatise about the use of alchemy and poisons which would one day be read by Darth Bane.[20] At some point before his death, he also created a holocron in which he transcribed his knowledge of alchemy. This holocron was lost until its discovery by Darth Sidious, who incorporated its study of alchemy into his own work, The Creation of Monsters, and into the Telos Holocron.[2]
Personality and traits
- "Your progressive ways will ruin the Sith Empire, Naga Sadow!"
- ―Ludo Kressh
Naga Sadow believed that beings who were not of Sith blood were nonetheless capable of participating in the furtherance of the dark side and of the Sith Empire.[21] Ambitious and ruthless, Sadow would stop at nothing to achieve his goal of becoming Dark Lord of the Sith and pursuing the expansion he felt necessary for the Empire's survival. His willingness to kill his own mentor, Simus, in the process demonstrated the lengths to which he would go. He was also intelligent and manipulative, framing the Republic for his actions to gain the support of the other Sith Lords and luring Ludo Kressh into a trap in an attempt to eliminate his rival, while at the same time tricking the Daragons into thinking he could be trusted.[8][9]
However, Sadow was also overly confident, and it was this that led to his downfall. The Republic was much larger than the Sith Empire and Sadow overexerted his forces during his invasion. At the same time he left the Empire undefended and, therefore, returned to find his power usurped by Kressh.[14] Sadow commanded loyalty from those who served him but appeared to care little about them, frequently sacrificing his Massassi in order to further his goals. On Yavin 4, he demonstrated his contempt for them by conducting his experiments with apparently no remorse for the side effects of his actions.[15]
Due to his Red Sith ancestry, Naga Sadow's face exhibited many decidedly non-Human traits. Most evidently, his skin was reddish and his chin ended in two pointed tentacles. The Dark Lord was completely bald, and huge veins bulged from his skull. His hands were tipped with claws comparable to those of an uvak, a winged reptile from Kesh.[22] An imposing man, Sadow stood 1.88 meters tall.[1]
Powers and abilities
- "Here in my Meditation Chamber I can see the galaxy in my mind's eye…I can visualize vast armies, powerful fleets, invincible warriors…and with Sith arts, my imagination can make them real!"
- ―Naga Sadow
Naga Sadow was an accomplished Sith sorcerer. He chose to delve into forbidden Sith teachings, and augment his dark side power with long-forgotten Sith traditions. One of Sadow's greatest strengths was his ability to create illusions. With the aid of his meditation sphere Sadow could focus his abilities to generate illusions of large Sith forces on remote worlds. These phantom forces were able to even cause damage to Republic troops.[12] Furthermore, even several Jedi Masters present at Coruscant could not recognize the illusions for what they were. If it was not for the intervention of Gav Daragon, this may have been enough to deliver victory for the otherwise outnumbered Sith forces.[13]
Sadow also demonstrated an ability to manipulate solar activity through the Force, giving him the power to create solar flares and twice using this to escape from Republic forces, once causing the already unstable star affected to explode.[13][14][23]
Naga Sadow had a mystical Sith sword that was simply called "Naga Sadow's Poison Blade." The blade carried a toxin which poisoned the victim when it inflicted injuries.[19]
During the Jedi Civil War when Revan searched for the Star Maps, he retrieved a poison sword in the tomb of Naga Sadow on Korriban.[19]
Behind the scenes
Naga Sadow's original appearance and backstory in Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith contradicts his later exposition. In Dark Lords of the Sith, despite appearing Human, Sadow is stated as being pure Sith, and not claiming any descent from the exiled Dark Jedi. He was also stated to have been only a Sith Acolyte and powerful magician, and to have been 'banished' to Yavin 4 by the ruling Dark Lords of the Sith. The story was fully developed (and somehow altered) in Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith
IGN had reported that the Sith Emperor of Star Wars: The Old Republic is none other than Naga Sadow,[24] but since other sites, including the official website,[25] were vague on the matter, the identity of the Sith Emperor remained uncertain. However due to a misunderstanding in a recent interview many have taken the words of Daniel Erickson, lead writer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, to mean the Sith Emperor was indeed the Emperor during the Great Hyperspace War. He has since posted a message saying this was not his intention and that the Sith Emperor was not the Emperor during that era, and therefore not Naga Sadow.[26] Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan confirmed it further, giving the Emperor a name and backstory.[27]
Although earlier sources remained ambiguous on the death of Naga Sadow, the Freedon Nadd entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia mentions that Sadow's spirit was destroyed by Nadd as do most other more recent canonical sources when referring to Naga Sadow's death.[3][2][17][28] Nevertheless, he must have survived in some form at least until Eison Gynt and Barel Ovair went to Yavin 4.[4]
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Race(s) | 172 | Win(s) | 11 |
Pole Position(s) | 15 | Fastest Lap(s) | 14 |
What's the significance of this set of numbers: 2-4-6-7-4-3?
They are the ones that saved Felipe Massa's job at Ferrari, the team he has been with since 2006. Those are Massa's placings in the final six races of 2012, starting with his first podium of the season, which came only in round 15 in Japan.
In fact it was the 31-year-old Brazilian's first visit to the podium since the Korean round of 2010, a 35-race barren spell that had most F1 insiders nodding sagely and saying Massa's time was up.
Massa hasn't won a Grand Prix since the final race of 2008, his oh-so-close season when for a few glorious moments he thought he had won not only the Brazilian race but with it the title as well.
Now he has another chance, with Ferrari's aim being to ensure that he scores far more points this season than the 122 he managed in 2012, and so provides the back-up Alonso needs if he is to win a third title and Ferrari another Constructors' crown.
Alonso said all along that if Ferrari found another number two, it would have to be someone they knew was better than Massa. But the feeling persists that 2014 will see Felipe in a different-coloured set of overalls…


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I could have written an article that stated that the Britain of family values is the only country in the EU that recruits child soldiers as young as 16 into its Army and ships them off battlegrounds in Iraq and Afghanistan, putting it in the same league as African dictatorships and Burma.
Don't know about the rest, but that one's bollocks.
Not sure this is quite the right place but nonetheless an interesting article about some disturbing aspects of Dubai. Can't say that I'm as enthusiastic about DIC as I once was....http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6716543.ece
There is worse reality behind US and UK's facade. Bollocks thread.
I think you need to be wary of forming judgements on places based upon a journalists article especially when he is clearly writing to an agenda. All major cities in the world suffer from various undesirable problems and it is easy to just focus on those rather than look at the whole picture.http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/sultan-sooud-al-qassemi-if-you-think-dubai-is-bad-just-look-at-your-own-country-1666748.htmlSultan Sooud Al Qassemi: If you think Dubai is bad, just look at your own countrySay that Id written that in first world Britain there are 380,00 homelessFriday, 10 April 2009I recently figured that if British journalists such as Johann Hari (Tuesday, 7 April) who come to Dubai don't send back something sensationalist it won't get printed and they won't get paid. After all, sleaze sells.I called a British journalist friend of mine and said: "I'm going to write an article about London, the same way your compatriots write about Dubai." By the time I was back at home I had come to my senses, it's not fair to London, a city so dear to my heart, or Londoners to be judged by the actions of a few. It's easy to generalise about a country when figures are manipulated to sensationalise and sell papers.Say for example that I had written an article that states that, in wealthy first world Britain there are 380,000 homeless people, many of them mentally ill, starving and abandoned in sub-zero temperatures to live on the streets.Say then that I wrote an article that states that Britain, the so called "jail capital of Western Europe" sentenced in 2006 alone a staggering additional 12,000 women to prison and that up to seven babies a month are born in jail where they spend their crucial first months.I could have written an article that stated Britain, victor in the Second World War, had given refuge to 400 Nazi war criminals, with all but one of them getting away with it. Or one stating that the number of Indians who died while serving the British Empire, to build your Tube and grow your tea, is so large it is simply unquantifiable by any historian.Or say I write an article about the 2.5 million-strong Indian volunteer army who served Britain during the Second World War, where 87,000 of them died for their occupiers' freedom and yet until recently those who survived continued to be discriminated against in pay and pension.I could have written an article that stated that, in civilised Britain, one in every 23 teenage girls had an abortion and in 2006 more than 17,000 of the 194,000 abortions carried out in England and Wales involved girls below the age of 18.I could have written an article stating that Britain, the human rights champion, not wanting to get its hands dirty, had resorted to secretly outsourcing torture to Third World states under the guise of rendition by allowing up to 170 so called CIA torture flights to use its bases. Or that Britain's MI5 unlawfully shared with the CIA secret material to interrogate suspects and "facilitate interviews" including cases where the suspects were later proven to be innocent.I could have written an article that stated that the Britain of family values is the only country in the EU that recruits child soldiers as young as 16 into its Army and ships them off battlegrounds in Iraq and Afghanistan, putting it in the same league as African dictatorships and Burma.I could have written an article that states that Britain either recently did or has yet to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict or the UN's International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families .I could have highlighted the fact that liberal Britain is responsible for the physical and racial abuse of hundreds of failed asylum-seekers at the hands of private security guards during their forced removal from the country .I could have written about the countless cases of slave-like working conditions of immigrant labours such as the 23 Chinese workers who lost their lives in 2004 as they harvested cockles in the dangerous rising tides in Morecambe Bay.I could have written about how mortality rates from liver diseases due to alcohol abuse have declined in Europe in recent decades but in Britain the rate trebled in the same period reflecting deep societal failures.I could have written about how in "Big Brother" Britain maltreatment of minors is so serious that one in 10, or an estimated one million children a year, suffer physical, sexual, emotional abuse or neglect.Or that according to Oxfam 13.2 million people in the UK live in poverty a staggering 20 per cent of the population in the sixth richest nation in the world.I could have written all that, but out of respect for Britain, I decided not to. Because when you stitch together a collection of unconnected facts taken out of context, you end up with a distorted and inaccurate picture: something that Britain's Dubai-bashers would do well to learn.
i have always been pround of our teenage pregnancy rate, quite impressive i thought.
Did you contribute in any way? I think anyone who has been to dubai (I have 1 visit so far) will realize two things: one, you are either filthy rich or you're not. And two, you either love dubai or hate it to death.Not much else to say about the place. People drive like idiots there, workers are underpaid and their basic needs neither important to the arabs nor the EXPAT community who hire them (that includes our own people who go there as senior management because of the all mighty profit or cost issues) and almost every shopping mall is catered for the upper class of society.I don't know why people think dubai is all that great but then again, London is no better either. Expensive, aging infrastructure, traffic jams, over populated.....I can think of nicer places to visit, work or live anyways.
So in a way you are saying Dubai is the marmite emirate, love it or hate it?
That article is full of cheap shots at muslims. Whilst I agree there are elements of Dubai not to everyones taste, the article is gutter journalism with an inherent bias towards hating Dubal
I don't think so. I think the article is pretty straight forward and touch's on a number of issues in Dubai that most expats agree are real and true.
"Andrew Blair says he will pick me up from outside my sleaze-bucket of a hotel "
"Such conspicuous flaunting of vulgar affluence seems to me entirely appropriate for this foul city..."
I sip water (they were out of beer) and ask a question
You can have your big apartments, providing you dont default on the payments when times are hard, in which case well put you in prison there aint no bankruptcy get-out clauses here, inshallah.
You can dress like you were at a stag-party pub crawl in Prague, or like an infidel whore on the make
Would sacrifice Fordy in a sacred Mayan ritual to have him as the next Liverpool manager
fuck the emirates.My people go there to work, thinking they will get paid well for constucting all these megastructures.Instead they find they work 18 hour days, and have 10 men sleeping in one room with one toilet between 100. Fucking disgrace.The men don't complain, yet the health and safety officers who visit these squals just look past them.
Your people?
He's either Moses or asian of origin.....
sorry guys, a bit of a rant, i mean specifically men from Gujarat, India. But it applies to thousands across the subcontinent from Pakistan to Sri Lanka. Basically slaves.
Exploitative middle-men can't absolve the state for the lack of union rights for workers ^^^
Have you read Johaan Haari's article, in which he talks about the way that Pakistani and Bangladeshi workers are treated? They are Muslims as well, so you can't accuse him of taking cheap shots at Muslims when he's highlighting their maltreatment.
Do any of you know anybody who has worked in Dubai?? My mates Brother in law a benglai worked their. It was the agents who exploited them, not the Dubai government. Building companies who have their head offices here in the UK use agents to find workers for them. The Dubai Government could tighten regulation thats for sure, but to say its entirely their fault is total bullshit. If people want to blame them lets start blaming the British government for all the problems in this country.


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