The squinty-eyed, mangled-faced, ruthless visage of this hardened criminal often causes people to wonder how this notorious outlaw could still be on the run. The infamous Dr. Evazan (or Dr. Cornelius, or Roofoo, or one of countless other aliases) considers himself a skilled physician who specializes in cyborging and physical alterations. This obviously insane man had always admired a doctor’s skill in slicing things apart and bonding them back together in new and interesting ways. He has since pursued this "profession" on his own. After easily escaping from the Delrian prison planet, Evazan quickly uprooted to the Hindasar system. There, the fugitive bought a forged license and set himself up as a "personal surgeon." Once in private practice, " the doctor," as he is known throughout a dozen star systems, charged exorbitant fees for the promise of "droidless" surgery.

To date, hundreds of beings have been irreparably scarred under "the doctor’s" knife. Fully two score more have died of their wounds. Of course, no matter where he sets up shop, he is always discovered by local medical watchdog organizations, but Evazan has an uncanny ability to escape in the nick of time from almost any situation.

Evazan is far more than a twisted "doctor." This demented being knows no bounds: he has participated in slaving, assassination, illegal cyborging and countless other crimes.

His bold boast to a young Luke Skywalker that he "has the death sentence on twelve systems" is more than accurate. As Evazan’s list of atrocities has grown, more than thirty systems have a standing execution order for the man.

A bounty of at least one million credits has been offered by a consortium of his victims and their families. Until recently, no one has been able to get near enough to him or his current companion, Ponda Baba, to collect it.

The doctor is a master of deception, including the use of many disguises. But a few months before his arrival in Mon Eisley, an ambitious and talented bounty hunter named Jodo Kast caught up with the so-called physician. The hunter scarred the right side of his quarry’s face with a blaster shot. If it hadn’t been for the interference of Ponda Baba and the timely engagement of Jodo Kast’s services by the Empire, there is no doubt that Evazan would have been dead or captured before his chance encounter with Skywalker and Kenobi in the Mos Eisley Cantina.

But, as fate would have it, Evazan lived through his battle with Kast. As news of his maiming spread, Evazan knew that there would be few places where he could avoid capture. The doctor turned fugitive and took up residence in Mos Eisley where he hoped to find work with those closer to his own perverted ideology.

But he and his Aqualish friend Ponda Baba found that their stay on Tatooine was to be short-lived, as they unknowingly picked a fight with young Skywalker and his companion, the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi. The battle was as quick as two flashes of a lightsaber blade. When it ended Evazan and Ponda Baba fled town. Their whereabouts were unknown, although it was rumored that Evazan eventually returned to Mos Eisley, operating out of a small clinic under the name of Dr. Cornelius. Apparently, Ponda Baba was enraged after Evazan botched an operation to replace Baba’s severed arm with a mechanical substitute. At last word, Evazan was still fleeing Ponda Baba, traveling from world to world. Amazingly, the two still elude capture.

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