Cornelius Evazan/Legends

"I have the death sentence in twelve systems."

- Evazan

Doctor Evazan, alias Roofoo and Doctor Cornelius, was a notorious outlaw and sociopath active during the Galactic Civil War. He considered himself a skilled surgeon, even though his patients were often maimed or killed after botched "operations." By the time of the Battle of Yavin, his activities had earned him a death sentence in at least twelve systems.

Early criminal career
Although no one knows if Evazan ever obtained a true medical degree, he was nonetheless remembered as a promising surgeon. His application to the Imperial Academy was rejected when his innate madness was revealed during an interview, and he was shipped off to the prison on Delrian. Evazan escaped to the Hindasar system, where he established his own "practice" specializing in cyborging and inexpensive surgery. Once the medical and law enforcement authorities caught up with him, he disappeared to another system, where he began his operations anew. He would repeat this process on several worlds, with occasional forays into spice smuggling, slaving, assassination, and other crimes. He never stayed in one location too long, and his movement from planet to planet helped him gain more and more victims.

Evazan was searching for immortality, and was hoping that his experiments on his patients' insides would point him on a path to discover it. This pursuit of immortaility earned him the nickname "Doctor Death", among others.

His legacy of victims led him to be pursued by the bounty hunter Jodo Kast, who nearly caught up to him in the Corellian system. Thanks to the intervention of the Aqualish thug Ponda Baba, Evazan managed to escape, but not before one of Jodo Kast's blaster shots caught him in the face. Evazan was scarred for life, but he and Baba formed a beneficial partnership.

Partnership with Ponda Baba
Evazan and Ponda Baba fled Corellia to hide out on Tatooine, where he set up the Cutting Edge Boutique. Evazan used the boutique to continue his search for immortality until he encountered Luke Skywalker in the Mos Eisley Cantina. They tried to bully the youth into a fight, but found themselves on the wrong side of Obi-Wan Kenobi's lightsaber. The two of them fled the scene after Baba's arm was cut off.

Evazan tried to replace his partner's arm with a cybernetic replacement. The surgery was not a success, and Baba swore revenge, pursuing him across the Galaxy. Eventually, the two reconciled and set up base in a castle on Ando, where Evazan made a new breakthrough. He came to the conclusion that it was the mind, not the body, that was the key to immortality. He created a mind-transference machine, planning to transfer Ponda Baba's mind into a new body. He lured and trapped the Aqualish senator chosen to provide the body, but unexpectedly the machine worked in reverse, transferring the mind of the senator into Ponda Baba's body. Baba's mind ceased to exist.

Despite this, Evazan hoped to transfer his own mind into the body of a young man he had captured earlier. Unfortunately for Evazan, the young man was actually a bounty hunter named Gurion Silizzar using a holoshroud to disguise himself. Gurion sought revenge, because seven members of his family had been victims of Evazan. They went up to the castle's roof, where Gurion planned to kill Evazan. Evazan's pet meduza, Rover, saved Evazan by attacking Gurion, who then fell off the roof to his death. It was then that the Aqualish senator in Ponda Baba's body went up onto the roof and detonatated a thermal detonator. Evazan fell off the roof moments before the explosion. Once again, Rover saved Evazan's life by sacrificing his own to cushion his master's fall.

Project Starscream and the Search for Immortality
Soon after the events on Ando, Evazan went to work for Borborygmus Gog, hoping to gain information from Project Starscream. Shortly after that project was broken up by the Shi'ido sentientologist Mammon Hoole, Evazan was pursued by Boba Fett himself. The bounty hunter caught up to Evazan on the planet Necropolis and executed the mad doctor while he was holding Zak Arranda hostage.

Pylum required that Fett leave Evazan's body behind, in hopes of holding off the Curse of Sycorax, and Fett agreed, but held them all responsible if he never collected the full bounty. Unknown to them all, Evazan had injected himself with a megadose of his own reanimation serum, and he eventually returned to life. However, the serum only worked well on recently-dead bodies. The longer the body stayed dead before being injected, the less likely it was to survive reanimation. Evazan nearly completed his work, but was stopped by the zombie Kairn. Evazan tried to eliminate Hoole, Zak, and Tash Arranda, but Kairn refused to see his friends killed. He used the anti-serum created by D-V9 to kill the zombie army Evazan had created, then was killed himself when the potion touched him. Boba Fett then used the potion to eliminate Evazan once and for all.

Behind the scenes

 * The role of Dr. Evazan was played in A New Hope by Alfie Curtis.

Appearances

 * Smuggler's Blues
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
 * Hammertong: The Tale of the "Tonnika Sisters"
 * Play It Again, Figrin D'an: The Tale of Muftak and Kabe
 * The Sand Tender: The Hammerhead's Tale
 * Be Still My Heart: The Bartender's Tale
 * Nightlily: The Lovers' Tale
 * Doctor Death: The Tale of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba
 * Galaxy of Fear: City of the Dead
 * One that Got Away