Kornell Divini

Kornell "Uli" Divini was a protagonist introduced in the Star Wars Legends novel MedStar II: Jedi Healer and further explored in the Legends novel Death Star. 
Like Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke, Divini was from the desert world Tattooine. He was born 39 years before the Battle of Yavin. Leaving Tattooine at a young age, he traveled to Coruscant to study at Coruscant Medical. After graduation, he interned on Alderaan at the Galactic Polysapient Medical Center.
During the Clone Wars, Divini was drafted into the Republic military and assigned to a Republic Mobile Surgical Unit. There he spent his days operating on clones and other Republic personnel. Due to the sheer number of wounded, along with being critically under-resourced Divini often worked hard around the clock, later believing he might have indeed fallen asleep a few times while operating on people. During his time in RMSU 7 he became friends with the Jedi Barriss Offee. Coming to have feelings for Offee, he later devastated to hear of her death during Order 66. Divini never bought the party line that the Jedi were all traitors. 
As the Republic transformed into the Galactic Empire, Divini was done with military life and wanted to return home. However, he was forced to remain in service to the Empire indefinitely as the Empire had issued stop loss orders compelling medical personnel to remain in the service. By 3 BBY, Divini was a Captain in the Imperial Surgical Corps when he was assigned to MedStar Four, which was assigned to the Death Star construction site over Despayre. There he spent most of his time treating wounded slaves and others injured during the construction of the battle station.
Two years later he was transferred to the Death Star itself, and was assigned to the N-1 Medcenter. Due to a shortage of doctors, Divini was ordered to assist in handling routine physicals and other examinations. During his duty on the Death Star, he gave Hard Heart Cantina owner Memah Roothes the routine physical all contractors were required to undergo upon arrival. He also was one of three surgeons who operated on Admiral Natasi Daala after she was injured in a Rebel attack. Divini agreed with the assessment of the other doctors that Daala would probably have some memory loss as a result of the injuries she sustained. (The theory proved to be correct as when Daala recovered she did not remember leaving the Maw Installation to visit Tarkin and the Death Star). 
Divini then met an Imperial trooper Nova Stihl, who had come in to the medcenter complaining of headaches and nightmares. The standard physical examination showed a man who appeared to be in good health and excellent physical shape. Having labs drawn, Divini promised Stihl that he would continue to look into his case. When the labs came back Divini saw that Stihl had a high midi-cholrian count. Since midi-cholrian research was severely limited by the Empire, Divini had little knowledge of what they did. He put a question out on the Imperial medical network as to whether high midi-cholrian counts could cause headaches and nightmares. This unfortunately brought Divini to the attention of Darth Vader as he had set a flag on Imperial computers to be warned when any Imperial personnel requested information on midi-cholrians. Being busy at the time though, Vader didn't immediately act on the information. 
After finishing a session of torture on Princess Leia, Divini was summoned to the detention block to treat the injuries the Princess had sustained. He advised her to try to rest and that he would do what he could for her. When Darth Vader came back, he asked Divini if the patient was well. At that point Divini said that she was, no thanks to Vader, causing Leia to chuckle.
Having become a regular at the Hard Heart Cantina, Divini became friends with architect Teela Kaarz, pilot Villian Dance, librarian Atour Riten, bouncer Rodo, Roothes, Stihl, and the Zelosian Celot Ratua Dil. When the Death Star destroyed Alderaan, Divini began making plans with them to leave the station and the Empire. As part of their plans they decided to use codes provided by Riten, pose as paramedics, and steal a medical shuttle to escape. 
When it came time to put the plan in motion, however, Divini was arrested for unauthorized medical research having to do with his earlier questions on midi-chlorians. As the intelligence officers escorted him to interrogation, the Battle of Yavin commenced. When a deflection tower was destroyed by Zek Porkins and Biggs Darklighter, Divini was separated from his captors in the chaos and used the confusion to escape.
Stihl and Rodo sacrificed themselves to clear a path to the shuttle, and Riten remained on the station to convince controllers to allow the shuttle to leave the station. Having been spotted by Darth Vader in his TIE Advanced x1, the shuttle was pursued by Vader until Vader realized one of the pilots - namely Luke Skywalker - was strong in the force and a serious threat to the station, so he broke off pursuit to deal with Skywalker. It was long enough for the station to lock a tractor beam on to the shuttle, but Divini and the others decided not to surrender to the Imperials and would allow the shuttle to explode first due to overloaded engines. 
A few moments later, Han Solo got the Imperial fighters off Skywalker's back, sending Vader's TIE careening out of control. Skywalker was able to fire his torpedoes down an exhaust shaft, which started a chain reaction in the reactor that caused the station to explode. After riding out the shockwave, the surviving defectors took stock of what just happened and they all decided what they would do. Dil and Roothes decided to go see Dil's family on Coruscant. Both Dance and Kaarz decided to join the Rebel Alliance. Divini thought of telling the group he was done with all the strife and just head home, but he ultimately decided to join Dance and Kaarz and joined the Alliance, put his medical skills to use serving the organization determined to destroy the evil Empire.
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