TechCom Character Template

The TCBox as presented here is a template with a lot of placeholders for the most basic of data on a character. It's grown a good bit since my first experiments with the now-retired template from the old MUX community wiki I used to play at and this has made it necessary to offer some documentation on its use.

How to use the TCBox
The long and involved process works thusly. If you just want the damn Box, go directly to the Cheat Sheet.

Trigger the use of the TCBox on your page if you plan to include it. At the top of your edit window, enter:

And with this, you're set.

List of Parameters

 * image - Character image. Should not be wider than 300 pixels. If it's too wide (or too small) it will be automatically shrunken (or expanded) to the appropriate size (but clicking on the image will display the actual image rather than the adjusted version). If you have no image, don't include this parameter and it will default to a placeholder image instead.


 * caption - Text that goes right beneath the image, if you think the image requires further commentary. If not, don't include this parameter and there will be no blank space between picture and name.


 * name - Your character's name. This will appear in big bold letters.


 * player - However you'd like to identify yourself.


 * platoon - Your character's squad. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * rank - Your character's rank. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * realname - Your character's civilian Identiy. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * aliases - Any other names (civilian or heroic/villainous) your character may be using. Defaults to 'None' if not further specified.


 * age - Your character's age in human (solar) years. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * height - Your character's height in feet and inches (I prefer the metric system myself, but since COH/COV defaults to imperial and for the sake of uniformity, feet and inches are preferable). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * weight - Your character's weight in pounds (see height). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * eyes - Your character's eye color. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * hair - Your character's hair color. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * nationality - The country of interstellar empire your character claims citizenship of. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * birthplace - Where your character was born. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * hometown - Your character's current residence and stomping ground. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * marital - Whether your character is single, engaged, married, widowed or whatever other forms of voluntary slavery there are between two people. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * relatives - What kind of (relevant) relatives your character has or had. Most likely you'll want to limit this to any important characters that appear in stories or RP. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * abilities - A place for short notes on your character's non-superhuman abilities, eg. 'Black Belt Karateka'. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * equipment - A place to mention any notable equipment your character carries around, eg. 'Nemesis Staff carried at all times'. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.


 * footnotes - Room for any notes you want available at a glance that aren't covered by the above categories.

The TechComm/SkyNET Box Cheat Sheet
Just copy/paste the below list into your character's Edit box and fill in any categories that you might care to fill in. Leave all other lines blank or delete them.

Credits to TnB for the template!