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Sargon was a Goa'uld once in the service of Ra. After Belus's defeat on Earth, Sargon was given control of the planet Akkad by Ishtar to rule over in Ra's name just as his namesake ruled over the city of Akkad on Earth. Following Ra's death at the hands of the Tau'ri, Sargon continued to serve Ishtar faithfully while the Warriors of Akkad served him. Around the same time as the Stargate Program was started on Earth... an Ohnes freedom fighter arrived on Akkad in order to free the population from Sargon's control. Though the seeds were just starting to take root during the first year of the Stargate Program, it was thought to be only a matter of time before the people of Akkad rebelled against their false god.
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According to a folktale, Sargon was a self-made man of humble origins; a gardener, having found him as a baby floating in a basket on the river, brought him up in his own calling. His father is unknown; his own name during his childhood is ... unknown; his mother is said to have been a priestess in a town on the middle Euphrates. Rising, therefore, without the help of influential relations, he attained the post of cupbearer to the ruler of the city of Kish, in the north of the ancient land of Sumer. The event that brought him to supremacy was the defeat of Lugalzaggisi of Uruk (biblical Erech, in central Sumer). Lugalzaggisi had already united the city-states of Sumer by defeating each in turn and claimed to rule the lands not only of the Sumerian city-states but also those as far west as the Mediterranean. Thus, Sargon became king over all of southern Mesopotamia, the first great ruler for whom, rather than Sumerian, the Semitic tongue known as Akkadian was natural from birth, although some earlier kings with Semitic names are recorded in the Sumerian king list.
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Sargon has had a checkered career, acting mostly as a hero during the Golden Age but re-emerging in the Silver Age - as a villain, at least at first. It was later explained that his villainous activities were the result of certain side effects of possessing the Ruby of Life. He was brought back for occasional guest appearances in the Silver Age and was awarded with an honorary membership in the Justice League in Justice League of America #99. Despite this, Sargon was never a major player in the DC Universe, at least in published adventures.
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Rising in the royal service, Sargon learns politics and military strategy. When Ur-Zababa substitutes an inferior wine for an offering to the goddess, the sacrilege brings a plague upon Kish. Many people die, among them Sargon´s mother, Nita, and his lover, Ursa, and Sargon seizes power. He establishes his own city, Agade, as yet undiscovered, somewhere in the sands of Iraq. He creates the world’s first standing army, and introduces innovations in weapons and tactics. His first task is to attack Lugalzagesi, who had conquered some of the surrounding city-states.
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Sargon maintained contacts with several other mages in the DC Universe, notably Baron Winter, Zatara (a fellow faux stage magician), and the younger mage John Constantine. Sargon answered a summons by Constantine to participate in a ritual at the mansion of Winters in July 1985 to help deal with the effects of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, using the Swamp Thing as their portal into the war being fought in Hell. Locking hands in a circle of power, and using the psychic powers of Constantine's drunken acquaintance Mento, the group of sorcerers (which ... included Zatara's daughter Zatanna) observed the events unfolding, and attempted in turn to channel their magical powers into several other mystical characters present in Hell, including Etrigan, the original Doctor Fate, and the Spectre. Their enemy, a primal form of evil that was surging upwards to obliterate everything in its path, sensed their interference and lashed out several times; its power raced around the circle, finding a weak link and incinerating it. The first to fall was Sargon. At first panicking and crying out for the others to help him, and almost pulling his hands away from the circle, Sargon was rebuked by Zatara to maintain his composure and die like a sorcerer. In a final act of will, Sargon apologized for his outburst, and calmly sat in place and burned alive without a whimper, never letting go of his colleagues' hands.
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According to legend, Sargon was left by his mother in a basket, floating on a river, and was found by a poor Summerian worker who trained the young boy to be the palace gardener. The king at the time, King Ur-Zababa of Kish, noticed the young man and appointed him his personal cup bearer, a position of high esteem, and it could be that Sargon now had direct access to the king and had his chance todisplay hisgenius. Shortly afterwards, Zaggisi, chief priest of the city of Umma, proclaimed himself king of all of Sumer. Zaggisi continued to harass Akadian power by raiding cities and villages, in an almost near constant war. Consequently, Sargon moved to defeat him, although he soon emerged as king of a poor city-state. Sargon quickly relocated his capital to Agade, 70 miles north of Kish, which distanced his capital from the threat of Zaggisi. He put himself to design a new army of mixed Akkadians, and other Sumerians, along the lines of conventional Sumerian warfare, and, instead of directly facing Zaggisi, he marched north and sacked Asshur, capital of Assyria, and then overran Gutium in a ferocious and speedy campaign of destruction.
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