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'''What comflicts, problems or challenges might he face?'''  Loosing his ward, not having a family, and always being called to do the "dirty work" of the Federation.
'''What comflicts, problems or challenges might he face?'''  Loosing his ward, not having a family, and always being called to do the "dirty work" of the Federation.


==Specificity==
==Some history==
Let's use an example here, with my character name: Tristan Wolf. I can be known by any number of variations of this, right? Perhaps "Tristan," or "Wolf," or maybe even by parts of my rank: "Fleet Admiral," or "Admiral." If you're feeling brave, maybe even "Fleet Admiral Tristan Scott Wolf."
Much of Odin's history has never been revealed. The reason for this is for the safety and protection of Odin Nuell, the Romulan Star Empire and the United Federation of Planets.  Also, his career as an agent of Tal'Shiar and the Federation's brance of the Marines. His covert / black-ops missions will never truely be revealed and that's what everyone involved is counting on.


Now, our goal in naming a page is first, as we said above, to make it unique. But we also need to make it easy to find the page. Sure, search would probably pull up my page as long as you had one of the variations above in it, but search is inconvenient and sometimes annoying because other responses may come up. So we need to decide what is the best variation to use for simplicity and efficiency.  
As a Romulan, Odin was a military brat.  His mother, Yram of Nuell was an ambassador.  His father, Ra Nuell was an enlistee. His older brother, Ra Nuell, is currently a captain in the Romulan military and a strong supporter of Reunification. Ra, Odin's brother, has his own command and is incharge of the Ojari Project, an asteroid with a cloaked outpost built into it. The asteroid circles a dead system that is heavy on ore.


We need to be careful, however, not to be too specific. While ''my'' rank, for example, will not be changing because I can't be promoted any higher, just about everyone else in the club is pretty much guaranteed a promotion at some time in the future. So, we probably don't want to include the "Fleet Admiral" part of the name because we want conformity with others, and others don't want to use their rank because that would mean the page name would have to change in the future, which is always bad.  
Odin has been raising his ward, Barbara Smith, since months after she was born. As part of his inheritance of her, he promised not to adopt her so Barbara would always have her father's name.  Since then, Odin has secretly been plotting to over-ride this clause in the Smith will. Barbara's older sister was Alice Nuell, Odin's wife.  She died before Barbara turned the age of one.


This leaves "Tristan Scott Wolf," as my character name. We probably don't need to use the "Scott" part, because most people don't know that's my character's middle name. So we're down to "Tristan Wolf." But do we do it forward, or backward?
Though he loves the Federation, Odin Nuell tries to regain his honor in the eyes of the Romulan Star Empire, in the hopes of one day having the ban against him lifted. He desires to set foot on his home world once again.


Putting the last name first is usually the best, like so: "Wolf, Tristan." Here's why: because we're using ranks normally in SIM, most people are known as something like "FltAdml. Wolf." Last names are slightly more common in SIM than first names, so people will likely look for the last name first. There are, of course, exceptions to the rule, but we simply deal with those on a case-by-case basis.
While in the Federation, Odin when through multiple "mutations".  He had to alter his appearance, surgically, to look like a Vulcan. His first couple of years was as a Vulcan. However, he was highly volitile and angry; thus his nick-name "the angry Vulcan". The truth of who Odin really was, was known only to his then fiance, Alice, and her best friend, Raven. The two of them were the ones who found Odin when he defected. After entering the Marines, and being banned from Vulcan because of his emotional outbursts, Odin had surgery to make him look Human.  All Federation records of him have him as a half Human / half Vulcan.
 
'''However''', if your character is more commonly known by their "first" name, then we need to change this a little. For example, the staff member "Hollis Caley" is called "Hollis" because he is a Bajoran. So his character page would be called "Hollis Caley."


==Lowercase second and subsequent words==
==Lowercase second and subsequent words==
OdinNuell
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