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Cloaked Ships - Possible?

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Cloaked Ships - Possible?

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Sorry if this is a repost, I searched the forums for "cloak" and nothing turned up, so I think this is a new question.

 

But is there any way to enable cloaked, or invisible ships? 

 

Some ideas:

 

Cloak ability upgrade for scout ships.

Cloak ability for new fighter / assault ships.

Cloak field generator support frigate.

Cloak field generator planetary structure.

 

Of course this would mean you would need detector ships/structures as well. suchas:

Detection ability for some capital ships?

Detention frigate?

Planetary turrets double as detectors?

etc.

 

 

Is this possible with the current modding tools?

modding
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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

I'm an avid novel reader, only a few star wars novels i haven't read... and they're new "prequels"... An Imperial III star destroyer (for example the "Anakin Solo") can remain cloaked indefinately.  My assumption is that cloaking would require a constant power supply, therefore a charge using a "capacitor" (i work with electronics, sorry) would be insufficient for any kind of sustained cloaking, because the power supply would never be constant.  In the Heir to the Empire trilogy by Timothy Zahn (my personal favorite), Grand Admiral Thrawn attacked a planet...

He sent a Carrack-class cruiser ahead of the attack that had an (obscenely) expensive cloaking system installed on it.  He then attacked the world with the force of his main fleet.  By the time the inhabitants powered up their "impenitrable" planetary shields, the carrack cruiser had already moved into orbit below the shield.  Due to the inherent side-effect of cloaking being a total blackout of sensors/communications, a jedi was required.  The insane jedi clone was able to control the (cloned) crew of the cruiser, timing their fire with that of Admiral Thrawn's flagship ISD, making it appear to the government/defenders that thrawn posessed a weapon capable of bypassing their defenses.  they then surrendered with their shields, defenses, and infrastructure completely intact.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top

MAN! just the few lines you wrote make me wanna read that book!!!! Looks really action packed..just the way we like 'em :)

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

the trilogy you want is by Timothy Zahn

 - Heir to the Empire

 - Dark Force Rising

 - The Last Command

there are more SW books after those by Zahn, but Read those three, IMO they breathed new life into the franchise in the early 90s.

Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top

SWEET!!! I'll try to find them! Thanks a lot Skymocker!