A maniac that was wanted by nearly everyone in the galaxy, from the Rebel Alliance to
even the Galactic Empire, the notorious Doctor Evazan had the largest target on his back
as his crimes sickened every group and organization that became aware of them.
Not only was he wanted by the two major galactic powers of his era, but also 12 separate planetary
systems gave him the death penalty on their own accord, and on top of that dozens of bounty
hunters and mercenaries went out of their way to to hunt him down for either personal
reasons or to eliminate what they believed was truly the most sickening man they’ve
ever heard of.
So who was Doctor Evazan and what did he do that made him an enemy of nearly every being
in the entire galaxy?
First in Canon, Evazan was originally a mildly successful surgeon who was known for his cosmetic
operations.
However during this time either something snapped in his brain or he just decided to
stop pretending on being a sane individual, as shortly into his career as a professional
cosmetic surgeon he started to do extreme experiments on unwilling patients.
His early list of crimes consisted of mutilating and killing hundreds of beings, with a few
of his experiments consisting of him rearranging the limbs of his patients, leaving the few
who survived his operations to live out their lives horrifically scarred.
He seemed to choose his victims randomly and without care of where they came from, as a
few wealthy and well connected individuals were known to lose a few of their family members
to his experiments.
He quickly became a high profile criminal on his world and had a bounty placed on him
by local authorities.
The first bounty hunter to come across Evazan ended up disfiguring his face.
He almost ended up being captured by the bounty hunter had he not been saved by a nearby Aqualish
thug named Ponda.
Following their escape from the bounty hunter, Ponda realized Evazan’s intelligence and
potential to be used to create a ton of wealth for himself, so he convinced the doctor to
partner up with him and use his connections to enter the criminal underworld.
Together Ponda and Evazan went on to become partners in crime for a few years, which ranged
from smuggling to murder, and this earned them a semi modest living.
During this short period, they both ended up on the wanted lists of multiple star systems.
It wouldn’t be until in the later years of their lives however, that they’d become
one of the most wanted individuals in the galaxy.
As at this point Doctor Evazan decided to conduct perhaps some of his most cruel experiments
that would be both felt and seen across multiple planets.
His most infamous creations were the Decraniated.
These were beings that were kidnapped and cybernetically modified to be turned into
obedient slaves, and many of them were later sold to wealthy crimelords and the like.
The cybernetics that replaced their brains took away their consciousness which in effect
eliminated who they were as a person before the procedure, and they essentially became
mindless droids that were made to serve.
Some of the earliest victims of these creations were taken from medic bays as well as soldiers
from both sides of the war who were injured during a bloody battle.
Many of which actually came from the chaotic moon of Jedha.
Doctor Evazan and Ponda were known to always be on the move, leaving behind only a trail
of victims from their sick experiments as evidence of their stay for every planet.
Not much else is known about the Doctor beyond that, other than that a bounty hunter named
Tam Posla has been on their tail since at least Jedha, and he has taken a personal vengeance
toward hunting Evazan down.
This same bounty hunter has also acquired Ponda’s severed arm from the cantina, suggesting
he is getting awfully close to catching up with Doctor Evazan and his partner.
In Legends, Doctor Evazan was known for being a lunatic from the very start.
Early on in his life he tried to apply to the Imperial Military.
However during the interview process, the Imperials who interviewed him found him to
be so crazy of a person that they believed he was a danger to society.
So they ended up sending Evazan to an Imperial prison, but he was able to escape shortly
afterwards.
After his escape from prison he began to study and practice cyborging and organic surgery,
with nearly all of his patients being unwilling kidnapped beings.
His actions of course caught the eye of local law enforcement agencies, which forced the
doctor to be on the move as he jumped from planet to planet.
It wasn’t clear why he did what he did, but one being suggested that Evazan was attempting
to find immortality and that he hoped his experiments would lead him to said answer.
While his forced surgery experiments were his most well known crimes, Evazan also dealt
in slaving and assassination jobs.
The origin of his deformed face and meeting with Ponda was nearly identical to its canon
counterpart, where a bounty hunter had tracked Evazan down and shot a blaster bolt that took
off half of the Doctor’s face.
He was almost about to be captured, had it not been for the intervention of Ponda.
While they formed a somewhat uneasy friendship, it quickly ended following their confrontation
with Luke and Obi Wan, where Ponda lost his arm due to Evazan’s aggressive attitude.
The doctor promised to reattach the Aqualish’s arm back through surgery, but failed to do
so.
This failure ended their relationship, in which Ponda later swore to kill Evazan for
causing him to lose his arm.
However after about a year, the two came across each other and made up.
They then began working together, where Evazan believed he made a breakthrough on achieving
immortality, which was to transfer the mind from the aging body it was trapped in.
After countless experiments on plenty more innocent beings, Evazan eventually ended up
creating a few dozen zombies as he made progress to achieving his goal.
It was around this time of his experiments that the bounty hunter Boba Fett finally had
tracked him down and infiltrated the mad Doctor’s laboratory.
After blasting away a few of the zombies that were unleashed, Boba Fett successfully shot
and killed Doctor Evazan.
But wait, that wasn’t the end of his tale.
As prior to his death, Evazan had injected himself with an updated serum that he had
used on his patients that turned them into zombies.
So even though he was killed by Boba, Evazan was able to eventually come back to life as
his body slowly reanimated itself.
Though unlike his other subjects, the Doctor still had his mind, but it was implied his
body at that point looked like a dead corpse.
Though he wouldn’t remain alive long after that, as he eventually died from a serum that
was used to wipe out the zombies he had created.
Although it was believed that was the end of Doctor Evazan, there were reports and rumors
that he was still active 9 years following the battle of Yavin.
Though it was never confirmed if that was truly him or just a copycat that commited
similar criminal acts.