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Approved Character Talbain

Looks pretty good. I think the concept of a short ID-SOL with a Napoleonic complex is novel, and certainly interesting.

However, I have three problems here:

1. The Old Spice in his inventory. That doesn't actually exist in this setting, so it's gonna need to go.

2. Most ID-SOLs have a full name, and then a serial number. Unless he changed it, which is doubtful, then he should have a last name.

3. Age. ID-SOLs mature rather quickly, but not that fast. I'm not an expert, so someone else'll have to speak up on this, but I'm pretty sure he'd need to be older than 1.

Other than that, nice first bio.
 
Thanks for the input.
To address the issues that you have pointed out.

Here is the link to the old spice https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=si ... r_munchers.

As far as not having a full name I didn't think that he would have a last name since he was basically a manufactured product and not a member of a family. If he does have a last name I would imagine it would be related to the place where he was created or trained. I haven't come across the names of any such places so I would be open to suggestions on it.

Finally as far as the age is concerned I completely agree with you. I chose his age based off of the other ID-SOL characters Dusty Rhodes and Max Power. Judging from what I have read on the ID-SOLs I have to believe their training is much more intensive than what special forces personnel in the current US Army have to go through and that alone is two years of training. So if you can help me come up with a more realistic age I would greatly appreciate it.
 
Oh. Wow, I didn't even know we had that...

Anyway, now that I think of it, you're probably right. Sorry about that...

Also, he's going into just the regular marines. The training would be about the same as modern regular forces. While the older ID-SOLs, and certainly those created for the IPG or actual spec ops characters do still have the hardcore training, there are plenty who don't. You're not enough of a vet for a spec ops guy, sorry :/

As for the name, like Rhodes and Power, they do have last names. They just kind of randomly assign ones, or let them pick, depending on who's running the center or whatever.
 
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