Cornelius Evazan

Originating from Alsakan, a planet within the Core Worlds, Doctor Cornelius Evazan pursued medical studies and excelled as a plastic surgeon. He began his promising career by managing a cosmetic surgery clinic in Pons Ora, a small settlement located on the remote desert world of Abafar. However, during his training, madness overtook him, and he began performing "creative surgery" on his patients without the assistance of droids, rearranging the limbs of hundreds of victims and leaving them horrifically scarred.

After gaining notoriety for his cruel medical experiments, Evazan's face was grotesquely disfigured in a bounty hunter's attempt to eliminate him, although Ponda Baba, an Aqualish thug, intervened and saved him. The two then formed a partnership and engaged in piracy, smuggling spice for the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure. Their illicit activities proved successful, leading them to become wanted men. Despite their partnership, there was little affection between them, and Baba even considered turning Evazan in to collect the bounty on his head, before realizing that their ongoing partnership would be more profitable. Nevertheless, they considered each other friends despite their differences.

After being pursued by law enforcement, Evazan and Baba sought refuge with the Crimson Dawn syndicate, publicly led by the near-human Dryden Vos, around the year 10 BBY. Evazan became Vos's personal physician, responsible for monitoring the Crimson Dawn leader's unstable physiology, which resulted from his mixed heritage and previous injuries. The doctor worked with Baba as his assistant, and at one point mended a headwound of Vos's, using mechnostaples to close it.

While employed by Crimson Dawn, Evazan indulged his morbid curiosity through surgical experimentation, offering to modify underworld clients to disguise their identities or enhance their physical abilities. As he further explored these gruesome modifications, the physician created a breed of subservient, semi-organic cyberslaves known as the Decraniated. Evazan also worked at the Crimson Dawn ore hub on the astronomical object Athus Klee in the Outer Rim Territories' Tingel Arm, where he cybernetically altered the workers, who had been employed by the syndicate on lucrative one-year contracts, in a gene-mod chop shop housed on site in a cluster of hexagonal silos.

The Besalisk Dexter Jettster heard rumors of these illegal cyborg modifications and bodies grown to fit buyer specifications and traveled to Athus Klee from the astronomical object Pashvi to investigate. There, he found the ore hub and sneaked around the processing plant, taking scans of the workers with his macrobinoculars. After rescuing a Rodian worker from the ore hub, Jettster returned to the spaceport where he arrived and contacted a politician to inform them of the place. He wrote about his experiences after in a book he had acquired called the Smuggler's Guide.

Following the death of Vos in 10 BBY, Evazan disappeared from Crimson Dawn, supposedly scared away by the changes in leadership. Around that point, Imperial Security Bureau Agent Andressa Divo began investigating the doctor, compiling details about his time under the Vos's employment and acquiring a security image of the rogue surgeon working on a Decraniated servant with Baba's assistance. Divo made notes on Evazan, calling work a nightmare which was worse than slavery.

After severing all ties with Crimson Dawn, Evazan and Baba traveled to the Inner Rim Territories planet of Milvayne with Baba. There, the rogue surgeon, with Baba's assistance, abducted a number of victims, surgically altering and enslaving them. The pair's work continued in a number of other Inner Rim worlds and they used a number of aliases, Evazan eventually taking up the name "Roofoo" while Baba went by "Sawkee."

During that time, Tam Posla, an officer of the Milvayne Authority, was assigned to investigate the crimes of "Roofoo" and "Sawkee," coming across the mutilations committed by the duo. Posla was affected by the horrors he saw and made it a personal goal to solve the case. The lawman also attempted to arrest Evazan and Baba, to no avail. In the meantime, the Evazan's rash of mutilations had spanned a dozen star systems, which earned him a death sentence in each of them. During his hunt, Posla dubbed Evazan the "Mutilator of Milvayne."

Sometime between around 8 BBY and 2 BBY, Evazan and Baba became incarcerated on the prison planet of Gulhadar, at a facility of the Benelex Marshal Service, and were convicted to death. During their imprisonment they witnessed the Wookiee Chewbacca being transferred over as a fellow prisoner. Evazan pointed out the fact to Baba, referring to Chewbacca as "fresh meat". The guard accompanying Chewbacca ordered Evazan to keep moving. Eventually, the duo were taken to the execution chamber, but the dioxis gas meant to kill them was redirected by fellow prisoner Phaedra and Maz Kanata broke into the room to rescue them. The duo were used by Phaedra and Kanata for their escape plan and successfully ran away from the prison.

By 1 BBY, Evazan and Baba settled on the Mid Rim Territories moon of [Jedha](/article/jedha], residing in Jedha City. There, Evazan transformed wounded or incapacitated victims of the local insurgency with cybernetic technology to make them as subservient as droids, using the procedure to strip them of their identities before selling them into unwilling servitude as more of the Decraniated. He notably pieced together Caysin Bog, a high-gravity humanoid blown apart in an insurgency strike, as a prototype of the Decraniated.

Though taken off the case on Evazan and Baba by his superior officer, Posla was able to track the pair to Jedha after hearing reports of surgical alteration and forced-servitude there, similar to the crimes committed by Evazan on Milvayne. A number of bounty hunters also became suspicious that the doctor was operating on the moon after word spread of the Decraniated appearing there. However, the lawman had disobeyed orders by continuing his vendetta with the two criminals, and since Jedha was not in his jurisdiction, he was discharged dishonorably by his superior officer. Posla continued the hunt as a vigilante and a bounty hunter.

While Posla arrived on Jedha to find Evazan, the doctor and his accomplice were making their way off-world. In the busy streets of Jedha City, the pair bumped into the Rebel Alliance operatives Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor. Evazan, with Baba by his side, warned them to watch themselves, the two of them ready to fight. Andor, though, assured the doctor and is partner that he and Erso would be careful and they parted ways. Meanwhile, Posla, who had missed Evazan by seconds, found local members of the Decraniated, Bog being the only one able to speak. The Galactic Empire brought the Death Star battle station at that time, forcing the vigilante to flee the moon with Bog. Evazan and Baba had also departed the city by that point.

Evazan and Baba traveled to the planet Tatooine, where they resumed their illegal medical experiments. The pair frequented Chalmun's Cantina in the spaceport town of Mos Eisley. Due to his dumb and aggressive behavior, no one wanted to sell Evazan materials for his operations or anodyne chemical compounds to help him cope with his injuries. As a result, he made a semi-regular arrangement with the Talz known as the Muftak; the doctor would give him a thousand credits to pay the smuggler Han Solo for his drugs, minus not-inconsiderable shipping and handling charges. Upon delivery of the illicit substance, Evazan would then pay the Talz a completion bonus and hazard stipend.

Although Evazan's arrangement was meant to be discreet, everyone local who was aware of him knew about it. Despite that, Baba and Evazan agreed to back the Rodian bounty hunter Greedo's play against Solo, which regarded a confrontation on the latter's debt to Jabba the Hutt. While Evazan were at Chalmun's Cantina, a Trandoshan bounty hunter known as Bossk entered the establishment to question its bartender, Wuher, about the location of the rogue Imperial astromech droid 261. Baba approached him from behind with his blaster drawn, but Evazan held him back, allowing Bossk to depart without incident.

Later, the doctor was talking to Kabe, a Chadra-Fan female who frequented the cantina, when a drunk Baba, bored and looking for excitement, decided to pick a fight with Luke Skywalker, a young farmboy who had taken a seat to the right of them at the bar. Assuming Skywalker would be an easy target, Evazan quickly escalated the argument despite the boy's youthful apprehension. This caught the attention of nearby Obi-Wan Kenobi, Skywalker's guardian, who offered to buy the pair drinks to ease tensions.

However, paying little heed to the old man, Evazan angrily hurled the young farmboy into a nearby table, and, ignoring Wuher's protest, the pirates drew their blaster pistols. Given no other choice, the elderly Kenobi—in secret one of the few remaining Jedi Masters—ignited his lightsaber and cut a deep slash in Evazan's chest, causing the doctor to fall back against the bar screaming in pain. Kenobi then used his lightsaber to sever Baba's right arm, effectively disarming the pair before they could fire their weapons. The two survived the lightsaber strikes, as the blade had simultaneously cauterized their newfound wounds, Evazan supported the injured Aqualish on the cantina floor.

Following the attack, those present in the cantina briefly turned to see what had transpired before returning to their business. The pair hastily left Chalmun's Cantina to avoid any other problems, and Baba had someone alert a squad of Mos Eisley's Imperial sandtroopers, who momentarily investigated the violence. The two temporarily lurched outside of the establishment, Baba's severed arm held in Evazan's hands. Evazan used his skills to recover Baba's arm, and he attempted to reattach it to the Aqualish using his medical training. However, the cauterization complicated the task, and the doctor nearly killed his partner in the process when the procedure failed. Evazan concluded that the operation was impossible. Skywalker later recalled his encounter with the pair while training with his own lightsaber in the Temple of Eedit on the planet Devaron.

Meanwhile Posla had continued his hunt for Evazan, joined by Bog, his new lover. By that point, the doctor had earned the death sentence on thirteen systems. At a similar time, Evazan infiltrated a biofarm on the astronomical object Thannt. There, he stole a shape-shifting creature called a pluripleq. Wishing to evade the many death sentences he had earned, the rogue surgeon used the pluripleq to disguise himself as an alien, taking up a new identity and using the name "Lopset Yas."

Following Bog's untimely death, Posla continued his hunt alone and compiled a short history of Evazan's activity following his time on Jedha, including the "scuffle" on Tatooine and the infiltration on Thannt. The vigilante was even able to obtain Baba's severed arm, but soon found that Evazan's trail had run cold, all thanks to the doctor's identity change.

Despite the new identity, "Lopset Yas" was captured by the Empire and imprisoned in the wreckage-prison known as Accresker Jail. There he was assigned into a squad in the convict army known as the Accresker Penal Legion. A proximity bomb was implanted into Evazan's throat that was linked to his squad's hubdroid so that he could not stray ten meters away from the droid. During his time in the prison, he saw several phenomena that led him to believe it was haunted, such as power couplings frying people to death despite having no power, and boarding-spikes cutting another prisoner in half.

Evazan and the rest of his squad were deployed into an attack on a Rebel Alliance EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate. During the battle, the inmate and rogue archaeologist Chelli Aphra, a member of the squad, sabotaged their hubdroid by feeding it false information. Yas asked what was wrong with the droid, but Aphra just greeted him, calling him by his pet name, "Flopso." As Evazan corrected her on his fake name, the hubdroid exploded, killing all the other members of the squad. The disguised surgeon panicked as their proximity bombs started beeping, about to detonate. However, another hubdroid, Dek-Nil, arrived, and Yas begged him to let him and Aphra into his squad, which had been lost in a series of improbable accidents. Before their implants could explode, Dek-Nil transferred them into his squad, despite detecting three lifeforms instead of two due to Evazan's pluripleq.

After informing Yas that Dek-Nil was her droid, Aphra led them around a corner, where an escape pod was stuck on the edge of the prison's airdome. As the rogue archaeologist was about to discuss helping Yas escape Accresker Jail, the restraining bolt on Dek-Nil mysteriously moved, taking control of him and leading him to destroy the escape pod due to the Imperial programming. Evazan and Aphra then noticed a Force spirit, but were were ordered back to their sector before they could investigate. Returning to the prison, Yas approached Aphra after she had been temporarily taken away for interrogation and showed her a transmitter he had discovered and repaired, telling her that he knew she had connections to someone who could help them escape. He gave her the transmitter, asking her who she would call.

Aphra took the transmitter and contacted the Imperial Lieutenant-Inspector Magna Tolvan, telling her secrets that out the Imperial forced the Imperial to help her escape to protect both of them. As she did so, Evazan was almost crushed by some wreckage which had fallen down on its own. Aphra saved him, and the disguised surgeon told her of the phenomena he had seen in the prison, claiming that he believed the jail was haunted. Aphra disregarded the idea, but confronted Yas about being a shape-shifter, as she saw him partly change as she was trying to save him from the wreckage. Evazan pretended to shape-shift into the forms of several individuals, including himself, claiming they had used him for his powers in the past. Aphra quoted her mother, telling him that evil was a measure of how much people's choices took away the choices of others.

Later, Squad Dek-Nil received orders to participate in an attack targeting a pirate station situated within the Senex-Juvex sectors. As the battle unfolded, Aphra exploited an Imperial code to disable Dek-Nil's control bolt. The rebellious archaeologist then guided Dek-Nil and Yas to a TIE fighter where Tolvan awaited their arrival. However, before their departure, the previously encountered Force spirit materialized and obliterated the sensor disruptors, which had been concealing Tolvan's TIE fighter. Distracted, Aphra followed the spirit, with Evazan in pursuit, ultimately discovering the remains of a Penumbra-1 shattersprite starship.

While they were examining the vessel, Tolvan found herself under attack by Sana Starros, a mercenary employed by the Rebel Alliance, who arrived aboard her ship, the Volt Cobra. As the Cobra decimated her TIE fighter, Tolvan ejected and used a rocket launcher to destroy Starros' ship. Observing the conflict, Yas inquired about the situation, but Aphra remained captivated by the spirit, which proceeded to dismantle Dek-Nil using the Force. Aphra fired upon the spirit, causing it to vanish and reveal an infestation of gundravian hookspores, identified by Evazan as the most virulent saprophyte known. They quickly opened fire on the hookspores, forcing them to retreat into the ship, uncovering the corpse of a long-dead Jedi. Before Aphra could claim the Jedi's lightsaber, the battle concluded, and the airdome began to retract. As they fled, Evazan salvaged Dek-Nil's central processor, preventing the detonation of their implanted proximity bombs.

Evazan and Aphra encountered Tolvan and Starros, only to be confronted by a hubdroid who instructed them to return to the prison. The hubdroid escorted Aphra away for another interrogation, leaving the remaining trio to return on their own. Upon their arrival, Yas expressed his relief that their circumstances could not worsen, but his optimism was shattered when Aphra revealed the presence of the hookspores to the Accresker Jail command. Consequently, the jail was declared decommissioned and set on a collision course with Tiferep Major, a planet aligned with the Rebel Alliance.

Seeking a means of escape, Aphra exploited Lopset's "shape-shifting" abilities to deceive Tam Posla into rescuing them. Evazan feigned a transformation into his true form as Aphra contacted Posla. Witnessing Evazan, Posla agreed to bring his ship to Accresker Jail. The criminal surgeon reverted to his disguised appearance as Starros and Tolvan discovered that the Accresker staff were abandoning the Arquitens-class command cruiser that towed the prison. Yas inquired whether they should flee, a suggestion with which Aphra concurred.

As the cruiser collided with the wreckage-laden prison, Evazan witnessed the outbreak of riots and infighting among the convicts. Recognizing Aphra as the interrogated individual, she and Yas once again agreed to flee. They turned to find an alien prisoner aiming a large weapon at them, but the prisoner was killed by the Force spirit, who then eliminated several others. Evazan noted that the spirit vanished when it strayed too far from its ship, a connection Aphra made to the deceased Jedi they had previously discovered.

Tolvan proposed infiltrating the Arquitens-class cruiser, but Yas questioned whether they should await Posla's rescue. Disregarding the possibility of Posla's arrival, Aphra had Starros use the large weapon they had been threatened with to breach the cruiser's wall. Evazan assisted in holding the gun, then followed Starros, Tolvan, and Aphra into the cruiser. Inside, Evazan stumbled upon the interrogation Bor, Bor Ifriem, which had not been properly cryogenically frozen. Aphra then discovered a remaining escape pod within the cruiser, but they lacked a means of reaching it. Yas suggested using the large gun, but Starros argued that the weapon was too cumbersome to move.

Aphra retrieved Dek-Nil's head from Yas to hack into the generator controlling the prison's gravity. The rogue archaeologist succeeded, reducing the gravity to half its previous level while simultaneously drawing the hookspore-infested ship's wreckage closer. Yas reclaimed the piece of Dek-Nil as they traversed the prison, eventually reaching the Penumbra-1. The hookspores briefly seized control of all four of them, but found nothing of interest within Yas, rejecting him as a potential host. Starros realized that Aphra had intentionally brought the Jedi's ship closer to retrieve the lightsaber, warning her that the hookspores would not move until they found a heroic host to possess.

Aphra guided Starros, Tolvan, and Yas to the sole remaining escape pod in the cruiser's wreckage. While Starros and Tolvan entered the escape pod, Evazan remained outside with Aphra, who launched the pod. Tolvan, unaware of Aphra's intention to stay behind, leaped out of the pod at the last moment, leaving Starros alone in the launched pod. Aphra expressed her irritation with Tolvan, revealing that she had only planned to escape solo. Yas questioned her statement, prompting Aphra to quickly correct herself, assuring him that her plan would still work with the three of them.

Evazan accompanied Aphra and Tolvan to the main launch hangar, where the rogue archaeologist instructed him to remain standing on a floor grille. Before "Lopset" could inquire about the reason, Tam Posla arrived in his ship. Aphra began speaking to Evazan, who realized she wanted him to revert to his true form. Feigning distress at Aphra's attempt to exploit him, he recalled the quote the rogue archaeologist had shared when he first revealed his ability. Evazan shed his disguise, acting as if he feared revealing his true identity. Reminding Yas of the frozen interrogation Bor they had encountered earlier, she revealed that he was standing atop a coolant grille, which she activated, freezing Evazan.

Posla exited his ship to confirm that Aphra had his target, falling for the "trick." The vigilante loaded the ice-encased Evazan onto his ship and traded an escape shuttle before departing Accresker Jail. As he flew away, Posla glanced back at his frozen prisoner, harboring doubts about his true identity. To verify, he ordered his ship to divert power to the heating array, melting the ice surrounding Evazan. Once freed, the criminal surgeon impersonated Yas, prompting Posla to return to Accresker Jail to confront Aphra.

The disguised Evazan and Posla located the wreckage of Aphra's escape shuttle, with Yas assisting the vigilante in finding the rogue archaeologist using Dek-Nil's head to track her proximity charge. The pair discovered Aphra still inside the prison, watching a transmission of the Sith Lord Darth Vader interrogating Tolvan. Posla stepped forward to arrest Aphra, and Yas watched as the rogue archaeologist drew the deceased Jedi's lightsaber, only for it to fail due to its age. After the disguised Evazan pointed out the saber's degradation, the assassin droid 0-0-0, who was present to capture Aphra, intervened and killed Posla.

Evazan fled as Posla was brutally murdered. He made his way to Triple-Zero's own starship, which had been crippled by Vader. 0-0-0 soon arrived, dragging Aphra, when Yas approached the pair, intending to shoot and disable the assassin droid. The rogue archaeologist began to thank Evazan, only for him to stun her and take both her and Triple-Zero aboard Posla's ship. The disguised surgeon escaped Accresker Jail before it crashed into Tiferep Major. Subsequently, he removed the proximity bomb from his neck and implanted it into 0-0-0, bonding it to the droid's personality core to ensure its explosion if tampered with or if either the assassin droid or Aphra died. Furthermore, Evazan ensured that the pair could not stray more than twenty meters apart.

By the time Aphra awoke and questioned his actions, Evazan had nearly completed his work on the incapacitated Triple-Zero. The rogue surgeon turned to Aphra, explaining that he was not Yas and removing the pluripleq from his face. He then finished his work on 0-0-0, informing a shocked Aphra that her own proximity bomb was now linked to the one placed in the assassin droid. The doctor described it as an experiment blending science and art. As he explained, Ponda Baba docked with the ship, and Evazan began to depart, taking the Aqualish's severed arm with him. He repeated Aphra's earlier quote, expressing his desire to test her mother's theory as 0-0-0's photoreceptors transmitted a live feed for him. As he left, boarding the ship his friend had brought, he told Aphra that she and Triple-Zero deserved each other.

Evazan and Baba retreated to a clandestine location, the doctor monitoring 0-0-0's live feed while the assassin droid and Aphra collaborated to escape their predicament. Evazan's two subjects uncovered information about Rajam Nuss, Posla's personal cyberneticist on Milvayne, and journeyed to the planet. As Baba settled in to watch the viewscreen displaying the feed, Evazan explained the two subjects before them and updated his partner on the situation. The doctor also began crafting a cybernetic arm to replace Baba's lost one, watching as Aphra and Triple-Zero ventured through Milvayne, encountering difficulties with the Milvayne Authority before eventually reaching Nuss to have their proximity bombs removed. Evazan briefed his friend on Magna Tolvan when the assassin droid mentioned her.

However, Triple-Zero deduced that Evazan was observing their actions, requesting a mirror to confront the doctor visually. The threat unnerved Evazan, as did the pair's success in locating Doctor Nuss, but he dismissed it, doubting the cyberneticist's abilities. Nuss worked on extracting the proximity bombs, then awakened Aphra and the droid, claiming success. As the rogue archaeologist prepared to leave, Triple-Zero demanded that Nuss trace the broadcast signal from his eyes. Evazan and Baba were alarmed by this, until Aphra realized that Nuss had failed to remove the bombs, instead triggering a countdown. Delighted, Evazan watched as Triple-Zero murdered Nuss, deeming the cyberneticist no longer useful.

With only ten hours remaining until the bombs detonated, Aphra and Triple-Zero sought out Professor Prexo, Nuss' mentor. Simultaneously, Evazan contacted the hunters Nokk and Winloss, impersonating Princess Leia Organa of the Rebel Alliance using the pluripleq. As Organa, Evazan tasked the hunters with eliminating Triple-Zero. Nokk, a Trandoshan, immediately refused and prepared to leave, having detected the scent of the pluripleq and Baba's Aqualish ale. The Trandoshan then paused upon noticing Aphra on the viewscreen. As the hunters had been deceived and left for dead by Aphra previously, Evazan altered the offer, requesting the death of Aphra instead. Winloss and Nokk accepted instantly, departing to hunt their new target.

Once the hunters had departed, Evazan removed the pluripleq he had used to disguise himself as Organa. He expressed his skepticism about Winloss and Nokk's success, but believed either outcome would be intriguing to observe, turning nervously to the viewscreen, where Triple-Zero was threatening him through a mirror. Aphra and the assassin droid continued their journey across Milvayne City, but were intercepted by Tam Posla, who had been resurrected by the Force-imbued gundravian hookspores.

As Evazan and Baba watched the conflict, Nokk arrived on the scene, impaled Posla, and confronted Aphra and Triple-Zero, with Winloss at his side. However, the hunters were distracted by BT-1, who attacked them, allowing the latter pair to escape. With the commotion temporarily subsided, Evazan installed Baba's new cybernetic arm, equipped with its own mini-flamer. Fearing Triple-Zero might survive and seek revenge, he amplified the broadcast signal from the droid's eyes to present his entertainment to the residents of Milvayne. With the populace now watching the live feed, Evazan declared Aphra and Triple-Zero as fugitives on the run, encouraging any willing individuals to assist the Milvayne Authority in capturing them.

As avaricious callers made false claims about the pair in hopes of winning the reward, Posla, revived again by the hookspores from his impalement, joined forces with the Milvayne Authority as they were led to the fugitives at a bloatbarge by the scavenger Vulaada Klam. Despite being captured, Aphra and Triple-Zero escaped after Aphra tricked the Milvayne Authority officers into turning on Posla. Winloss and Nokk eventually pursued the pair and imprisoned them in their ship, but the Empire's Coalition for Progress intervened and fired on the city, causing the ship to crash.

Captain Okma of the Coalition for Progress descended with some stormtroopers to locate Aphra and 0-0-0, employing a signal disruptor to block the broadcast from the droid. Evazan was perplexed by the feed's interruption, concluding to Baba that it was being jammed. Aphra resolved the situation by triggering a seismic pulse from Triple-Zero, knocking away her and the Imperials. The assassin droid then interrogated Okma and murdered him and his troops. After Aphra regained consciousness from the seismic pulse, she and Triple-Zero engaged in further conversation. The rogue archaeologist granted the droid his memories, an unexpected development for Evazan, who had only intended to study the assassin droid in action. The doctor watched as 0-0-0's missing memories flashed by.

Winloss and Nokk confronted Aphra again, but revealed their decision not to kill her and departed. As the pair left, Aphra informed them that their client was likely Evazan in a poor disguise, challenging them to find him. With Triple-Zero having fully explored his memories, he realized that his creator had rejected him and decided to leave. Aphra convinced him to return by reactivating BT-1. When Triple-Zero emphasized the importance of a comrade, Evazan conceded that he had a point. The pair continued their journey to Professor Prexo's residence, with Vulaada Klam returning to assist them.

However, Winloss and Nokk had reached Prexo first and used him to track down Evazan and Baba. The couple infiltrated Evazan's ship and captured the pair, deactivating Aphra and Triple-Zero's proximity bombs. Evazan hurled insults at them, claiming they had ruined the art, but Nokk silenced him with her blaster. The Trandoshan ripped off Baba's cybernetic arm before she and Winloss explained how they had found the pair. Nokk then struck the criminal surgeon again and instructed Prexo to terminate the live feed. Winloss and Nokk took their captives away, intending to hand them over to the authorities.

While he and Baba eventually managed to evade justice once more, Evazan accumulated death sentences in numerous systems, eventually reaching twenty or more. Sometime later, the doctor murdered Prima Wessex, an information broker associated with the Whisper Network. From Wessex, the rogue surgeon obtained the Smuggler's Guide and an invitation she possessed to the Obroan Intelligence Summit in the Stratosphere Room on the planet Obroa-skai.

Within the Smuggler's Guide, Evazan discovered Dexter Jettster's entry on his work on Athus Klee. The doctor annotated one of those pages, commenting that his work on the Crimson Dawn's operatives had not been his best and that he would not waste his superior skills on the syndicate. He also made annotations on other pages, typically commenting on the references to casualties during missions and events, speculating about the hypothetical possibility of harvesting their body parts.

Desiring to infiltrate the Obroan Intelligence Summit, Evazan disemboweled Wessex's body and used the informant's skin to deceive door scanners at the Stratosphere Room. His plan succeeded, and he entered the Stratosphere Room to find the other information brokers in attendance. The doctor massacred the informants and subsequently began a log entry in the Smuggler' Guide, recounting the events that had led him from killing Wessex to his current situation, as well as commenting on his concept of biological art. He planned to harvest as many limbs and viscera as possible. Evazan and Baba then loaded as many bodies as possible onto their ship.

In the following two weeks, Evazan heard no news about his massacre on Obroa-skai. In his next log entry to the Smuggler's Guide, he joked that killing numerous informants meant there was no one left to spread the word and expressed his disappointment that he had gotten away with it so easily. In the subsequent log entry, the doctor documented telling Baba a story about a dying princess in the Kingdom of Tion and how a pipe-bird and other birds learned to mimic her favorite song. Evazan concluded the story by declaring his pursuit of immortality.

Meanwhile, Evazan conceived ideas for adding an arm from one of the Obroa-skai victims to replace Baba's lost arm. Baba refused, preferring a cybernetic arm, and many of the subject arms began to rot. Evazan recounted the situation in another log entry. The next log entry mentioned how Baba had endeavored to earn more credits by robbing shopkeepers, with the doctor proposing to develop new poisons and test them by delivering them in sweetcakes to orphanages. In the following three log entries, Evazan recited a poem verse about himself to Baba, reminisced about the time he applied to the Alchemists Guild before discovering they had not existed in a millennium, and reflected on his work on Athus Klee, describing how other minds quickly bored him.

The doctor eventually began creating his own creature from the limbs and organs of others. In a log entry during his work, he detailed asking Baba to dig up a dozen more corpses to replenish his bone supply, suggesting the graves on Makem Te. The doctor intended to grind any unused bones and sell them to elixir hustlers on Nar Shaddaa, the moon of the Hutt Space world Nal Hutta. The creature was then completed and brought to life, possessing numerous limbs, heads, and metal attachments. Evazan called himself a parent and celebrated his success in another log entry, adding that there might be too many arms and offering to graft one onto Baba's stump instead. However, the beast was soon shot dead by the mercenary Anton Markox while it possessed the Smuggler's Guide, the book falling into Markox's hands.

During the time of the New Republic, Exantor Divo, a police commissioner in the New Republic and son of Andressa Divo, wrote about Evazan in Scum and Villainy: Case Files on the Galaxy's Most Notorious, a book that covered the experiences of three generations of law enforcement officials in his family. Divo ensured that his mother's notes on the doctor and images of his Decraniated work with Baba were included.

A human individual named Cornelius Evazan, who was male, possessed fair skin and a stature of 1.77 meters. His eyes displayed a hazel hue, although his right eye suffered from blindness and was surrounded by severely scarred tissue, while his nose appeared to have narrowly escaped a disastrous encounter with a meat grinder. The injuries he sustained caused Evazan to exist in a persistent state of discomfort and fury, leading him to depend on a consistent, alternating combination of narcotics and physical aggression to alleviate his never-ending suffering. His hair was brown in color with some gray patches, and he showed signs of hair loss, with stubble covering the lower part of his face. Evazan's breath had an offensive odor.

Before succumbing to insanity, Doctor Evazan showed promise as a surgeon; however, he later became infamous for the brutality he inflicted on his patients. He harbored a "morbid" fascination with experimenting on patients, a desire that intensified while working for Vos. The doctor's activities soon escalated to abducting new individuals and depriving them of their autonomy. Andressa Divo was of the opinion that death was the only escape from suffering for his victims. He styled himself a "techflesh," or "cyborganic," artist, and an architect of essential arts. Accounts depicted him continuing his experiments on his victims until they pleaded for death, only for him to deny their request.

Evazan reveled in the company of corpses, viewing them as materials for his experiments. Within his annotations of the Smuggler's Guide, he conveyed delight at the mentions of deceased bodies in various narratives, expressing a disapproving exclamation upon reading in one account that some bloody bones had been lost to the emptiness of space. He lauded his act of peeling Prima Wessex's skin to deceive scanners as a brilliant decision. Following the massacre of the information brokers on Obroa-skai, the doctor felt thrilled by the possibilities presented by the diverse alien bodies surrounding him. He even made attempts to fashion new beings from the parts of others, proudly referring to himself as a parent when he achieved success.

Evazan and Ponda Baba took pleasure in engaging in fights and shooting down helpless creatures, and Evazan quickly became hostile towards those who opposed him, as evidenced by his encounters with Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor on Jedha, and Luke Skywalker in Mos Eisley. After Baba initiated the harassment of Skywalker, Evazan swiftly amplified the argument, even going as far as to threaten Skywalker before Obi-Wan Kenobi intervened. Disregarding the old man's effort to ease the rising tension, the doctor resorted to violence, which had negative consequences for both Evazan and Baba. Evazan once brought up the idea of poisoning orphans to Baba when he was bored.

Evazan's standing as a smuggler and murderer also resulted in him acquiring numerous adversaries throughout the galaxy. He was proud of his notoriety, openly informing Skywalker in the Mos Eisley Cantina about the dozen death sentences he had at the time. The doctor quickly grew weary of working under contracts, as he felt he was squandering his genius on others. Evazan held cloners in contempt, labeling them obedient clerks, and looked down upon cryptosurgeons, whom he believed used their titles to gain an easy path to genius. He desired to ascend to the level of the gods, dealing in life and death itself, and sought to attain immortality while endeavoring to create novel forms of existence.

Evazan maintained an unstable partnership with Baba, but he still regarded him as a friend, justifying that wickedness did not preclude friendship. Upon encountering Chelli Aphra and 0-0-0, he became intrigued by the pair, regarding the rogue archaeologist as representative of "self-centered, chaotic and accidental evil," and the assassin droid as the closest thing to programmed evil. Intrigued by the dynamic between the two, which involved Triple-Zero wanting to kill the fearful Aphra, he forced the two to remain together, commenting that they deserved each other. Evazan considered it a study into evil and whether it was natural, recalling a quote he had heard from Aphra's mother which theorized that evil was a measure of how much one's choices took away other's.

Evazan's experiment, which he described as "art" and "science," also sought to determine how long the duo could endure each other's presence, as he found it amusing and saw it as a form of entertainment while he and Baba remained hidden. During this period, he introduced external pressures as a critical variable, hoping to amplify the chaos and entertaining cruelty displayed by Aphra and 0-0-0. The criminal surgeon was taken aback when Aphra restored 0-0-0's lost memories, as he did not anticipate gaining insight into its history. He was also disappointed when the assassin droid made a heartwarming point to his companion.

In order to evade his numerous death sentences, Evazan employed a pluripleq to alter his appearance. Assuming a new identity, Lopset Yas, he remained off the radar for over a month, until he revealed his true self to Chelli Aphra. As Yas, he was prone to experiencing nervousness or fear, pleading with Dek-Nil to allow him into his squad after his initial hubdroid exploded, and developing a stutter whenever he became frightened. He rapidly acquired considerable knowledge about Aphra, questioning her connections within the underworld.

Evazan also paid close attention to his surroundings, observing numerous strange occurrences within the Accresker Jail, and frequently posing questions driven by curiosity and concern. Yas also placed a great deal of trust in Aphra, feeling compelled to follow her wherever she went due to the shared hubdroid they possessed. When she followed the Force spirit to the Penumbra-1 shattersprite Yas was quick to follow and he made sure to keep Dek-Nil's central processor to keep their implants from detonating. He continued to carry the piece of Dek-Nil even when the implants were disabled.

Having studied, Evazan specialized in plastic surgery before his experimentation led him down a darker path. He had surgical skills, including grafting body parts, including cybernetics, together and even removing a bomb that was implanted in his own neck. He was a skilled electrician Aphra becoming fond of his cybernetic work. Evazan also had knowledge of other subjects, recognizing the gundravian hookspores and describing them in some depth.

Evazan typically wore a long-sleeved khaki shirt beneath a brown vest, coupled with dark-brown pants, and a pair of black boots. His black belt featured a golden buckle and a holster designed to accommodate his SE-14C blaster pistol. While performing operations, Evazan donned scrubs and utilized an assortment of medical instruments. During his time in servitude at the Accresker Jail, Evazan was attired in dark brown leather clothing complete with a sizable hood and compartments encircling the waist, a uniform worn by all inmates at Accresker Jail.

When utilizing his pluripleq, Evazan had the ability to assume a variety of forms, including Kelko Dev and Sandewar Mandewar. However, he generally maintained an appearance similar to that of the abednedo species, characterized by brown skin and eyes that underwent changes in color over time.

Cornelius Evazan made his initial appearance in George Lucas's 1977 film, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, where he was portrayed by Alfie Curtis. The original 1976 novelization of Star Wars, ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster, described the character as a "short, grubby-looking human" with a surprisingly deep voice. This narrative's depiction of events, which closely aligns with the film's revised fourth draft, portrays Obi-Wan Kenobi as severing Evazan's arm, rather than Ponda Baba's, with Evazan retreating into the crowd without uttering a word following the altercation. The Evazan character's origins can be traced back to The Star Wars: Rough Draft from as early as May 1974.

Star Wars creature effects make-up artist Nick Maley expressed dissatisfaction with Evazan's distinctive facial prosthetic. He believed that the texture of the prosthetic clashed with that of Curtis' face. Evazan also appears alongside Baba in the 2016 Anthology Series film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which serves as a direct prequel to the events of A New Hope. In Rogue One, the character was brought to life by Michael Smiley, who is credited as "Dr. Evazan." Rogue One writer Gary Whitta voiced his disagreement with the inclusion of Evazan and Baba in the film, stating that he "thought having Evazan and Walrus Man was a little too much. You have to reign in that instinct to go back and put things in just because you loved them when you were a kid."

The character's name finds its roots in Star Wars Legends storytelling, as he was initially referred to as "Roofoo" in Brian Daley's 1981 Star Wars radio dramatization. The name "Evazan" first appeared in Galaxy Guide 1: A New Hope, a 1989 Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game supplement authored by Grant S. Boucher. "Doctor Death: The Tale of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba," a short story penned by Kenneth C. Flint for the 1995 anthology book Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, introduced the name "Cornelius" as an alias used by Evazan, while The Official Star Wars Fact File 51 from 2002 was the first source to establish the character's full name as Cornelius Evazan. The original StarWars.com Databank subsequently identified "Roofoo" as another of Evazan's aliases.

Within the current Star Wars canon, Cornelius Evazan's name was featured in the mobile card game Star Wars: Force Collection, which was initially launched on September 4, 2013. Even though the release of Force Collection predates the Star Wars canon reset of April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm Story Group member Leland Chee affirmed that the game was consistently updated to align with canon. Furthermore, Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide, authored by Pablo Hidalgo and published in 2016, confirmed "Roofoo" as an alias.

The sixteenth issue of De Agostini's Star Wars Helmet Collection magazine series, which came out in 2016, along with the Cornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba StarWars.com Databank entries, assert that Evazan met his demise following his confrontation with Obi-Wan Kenobi. However, the 2016 Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded, written by Pablo Hidalgo, indicates that Evazan survived the encounter. The short story "The Secrets of Long Snoot," featured in the 2017 anthology From a Certain Point of View, also portrays Evazan as surviving his encounter with Kenobi, as well as the Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series showing what he did after the encounter with Kenobi. Updated and Expanded also specifies that Evazan's height is 1.77 meters, while the character's Databank entry lists a height of 1.7 meters. This article presents the information from Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded, "The Secrets of Long Snoot" and Star Wars: Doctor Aphra as more recent sources.

Several sources, including the Mos Eisley Cantina and Tatooine StarWars.com Databank entries and the junior novel The Weapon of a Jedi: A Luke Skywalker Adventure, mistakenly identify Evazan as an alien.