Normally, no. Once a character is made, that name is permanent. The exception to this standard applies to players still in the academy. If you've not yet made it to the game world, feel free to reach out on IMMchat and an IMM might help you out with good reasoning.

The surname code is a remnant of the old propose/marriage code. Outside of that, which is strictly for RP, it has no practical use. Many players use it as a reminder for what their last name is on new characters since it shows up on your score sheet.

Changing your race is currently not something we allow.

Yes. Prior to level 30 in any class, you can freely swap between them utilizing the mainchange command. Be warned that your decision will be locked in the moment any class reaches level 30.

If you use the score command or the level command, you'll see a list of all of your classes. Your level is equal to which ever class currently is the highest. If you were a combat main that has 25 levels in combat, but 29 levels in espionage, you'd currently be level 29. This is important to remember with regards to the mainchange command. Mortal characters cap out at level 100 even though their classes go above this. A level 101 is an RPC member, and at level 102 are the Newbie IMMs.

Espionage, Slicer, and Smuggling are based on the LUCK stat. Every character is given a random roll between 1 and 25 in this stat upon creation. As such, these three classes can have less, or more, than the average displayed on showrace for any given race/class combo.

Yes. While leveling classes, each one has a chance to raise a given stat by one, up to a maximum of two gains per stat total. Another way to say this would be a human, with a base of 18 dexterity can gain 2 additional dexterity in total while leveling piloting and engineering. These are not guaranteed. See help stat_chart for additional information. Furthermore, a player can receive between 1 and 3 additional stat gains through cybernetic installations depending on the quality of the cybernetic. Gear will not affect class levels at all and every stat has a hard cap of 25. Typing score stat will show your permanent stats in the parentheses.

Yes. Every character with the exception of a bounty hunter, has a small chance to be force sensitive when created. Upon reaching level 100 in any class, a force sensitive will become visible to other master level forcers. Please make sure you understand rule 22 on help rules2.

Yes. There are two options to do so in game. You can use the stylehair command to change the style and find dyes in the game to change the color. There are multiple locations in game with various hair dyes that you can apply to your character. While these do not work on races with fur, it will still change their hair color.

Keeping multiple comlinks in your inventory allows a character to focus on more than one channel at once. Using the talk command will send your communication over the comlink you currently have selected with the currentcom command.