We all remember Dr. Evazan as one of those quick Mos Eisley troublemakers, the guy who gets in Luke’s face and almost starts a fight before Obi-Wan steps in. But there’s one detail he drops that’s easy to miss. He claims he has “the death sentence in twelve systems.” That’s not a normal brag. So what kind of life do you have to live to rack up that many death sentences?
Evazan’s “Medical Work” Is What Made Him Wanted
Dr. Evazan wasn’t born with a death sentence hanging over him in twelve systems. Like anyone else in the galaxy, he started out as a normal person with a normal career. He came from Alsakan in the Core Worlds and trained in medicine until he became a talented plastic surgeon. For a while, he even ran a cosmetic clinic in Pons Ora, a small settlement on the desert planet Abafar.
Over time, his work stopped being about fixing people and started turning into something twisted. He began operating without droids and treating patients like test subjects, experimenting on their bodies and leaving countless victims permanently disfigured.
However, Evazan’s work didn’t truly become horrifying until he ended up working for Dryden Vos, a leader within Crimson Dawn. That’s where his ‘creative surgery’ crossed the line into something much darker.
One of the creepiest things tied to Evazan from that period is the Decraniated, cyborg-like humanoid servants who were left mutilated, with much of their face essentially gone.
And it wasn’t a one-time thing. After that, Evazan ended up on Jedha, where he kept creating more Decraniated, this time by using survivors from Partisan attacks as his ‘raw material.’
Interestingly, Evazan didn’t pick up his infamous death sentences while he was still under Crimson Dawn. That part comes later, after Dryden Vos is dead and the Empire starts digging into what Evazan was really doing.
An ISB agent named Andressa Divo opens an investigation into him, gathering details from his time working for Vos. She even gets hold of a security image showing Evazan operating on a Decraniated, with Ponda Baba assisting. In her notes, Divo describes what Evazan did as a nightmare, something she considers worse than slavery.
After cutting ties with Crimson Dawn, Evazan and Baba disappear into the Inner Rim. They travel to the planet Milvayne, and the pattern continues: abduct victims, surgically alter them, and keep them as enslaved servants. It doesn’t stop on Milvayne either. The two keep moving through other Inner Rim worlds, switching names to stay ahead of the law. Evazan eventually uses the alias “Roofoo,” while Baba goes by “Sawkee.”
That’s where an officer named Tam Posla enters the story. He’s assigned by the Milvayne Authority to track down “Roofoo” and “Sawkee,” and he starts encountering the aftermath of their work firsthand. The mutilations hit him so hard that he turns the case into something personal. Posla even attempts to arrest Evazan and Baba, but they slip away.
By that point, the damage is already spreading far beyond one world. Evazan’s trail of mutilations stretches across a dozen star systems, and that’s how he ends up with what he brags about in Mos Eisley: a death sentence in each one. It’s also why Posla gives him the name that sticks, “the Mutilator of Milvayne.”