īaba and Evazan are confronted by Obi-Wan Kenobi Baba and Evazan departed from the city prior to its destruction by the Death Star and traveled to the planet Tatooine. The two parties then continued their routes. Evazan told them to watch themselves and Andor said they would be careful. While on their way off-world, Baba and Evazan bumped into the rebel operatives Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor. Posla traveled to Jedha to look for them and found their decraniated prototype Caysin Bog, whom he fell in love with. The Milvayne Authority officer Tam Posla looked into their case and despite being taken off it by his superior officer he managed to track them to Jedha, where the two began creating the decraniated. The pair eventually adopted the aliases 'Roofoo' and 'Sawkee,' and when visiting Milvayne, they committed a series of crimes including kidnapping, forced servitude, and surgical alteration. Ĭornelius Evazan and Ponda Baba on Jedha. Still, the two considered each other friends despite their differences.

Their working relationship wasn't always pleasant, however, and Baba even briefly considered turning Evazan in to collect the bounty on his head before realizing that their ongoing partnership was more profitable. However, they became wanted men in several star systems, although they were mainly wanted because of Evazan's failed and sadistic surgeries.

The pirates were successful at their trade and became infamous. They began to smuggle spice for Jabba the Hutt. The two formed a partnership after Evazan hired him for protection. Originally from the planet Ando, Ponda Baba was a burly Aqualish thug who rescued Cornelius Evazan, a former doctor who was infamous for the cruelty he inflicted upon his patients, from a bounty hunter. Evazan later tried to reattach Baba's arm using his medical training, but ended up nearly killing the Aqualish in the process when the procedure failed. Kenobi, who was secretly one of the last remaining Jedi Masters of the nearly extinct Jedi Order, wounded Evazan with a slash across the torso when the pair drew their blaster pistols on the old man. Evazan claimed that Baba did not like Skywalker and began to threaten the youth, leading to a brief confrontation with Obi-Wan Kenobi, who, after failing to calm tensions with the pirates, used his lightsaber to sever Baba's right arm. Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, he was a patron in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina on the planet Tatooine, where he instigated an argument with Luke Skywalker while bored and drunk. The two formed a partnership and began to smuggle spice for the crime lord Jabba the Hutt, resulting in him becoming a wanted man.

Ponda Baba was a male Aqualish thug who rescued Dr. ' He doesn't like you.' ―Ponda Baba and Evazan, to Luke Skywalker - Listen ( file info)

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