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Topic: Is there realy a cloaking device? (Read 10238 times)
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Death 999
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Exactly - if you gave them the parts to play around with, and it worked, do you think they'd stick around to give the results to YOU?
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« Last Edit: March 28, 2003, 05:28:59 am by Death_999 »
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It didn't say that they were alive at the time.
And why can't Orz Marines take over ships??
And.. and.. why do the Androsynth bubbles deal their damage all at once? It should be spread out over time, like any good acid.
And... why don't the lasers's strength decay with the inverse square law?
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crs
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I still like Death_999's storyline of how the precursor ship would get the cloaking device. And, it would make for a great weapon at the end of the game.
Maybe, if we didnt want it at the end of the game, we could say that
1) When you combine the Chenjesu and the Mrrr and they outfit your ship to be a big bomb (with the parts provided) one of the major components is the cloaking device because it would create a large cloaking field that when combined with the blast of the explosives would cloak the nearby systems from ever being discovered again. In other words, in the storyline you would essentially erase all knoledge of precursor technology so that no race could get a hold of it again.
Make sense?
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Lukipela
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Is the factory there though? I seriously doubt the Quan left too much of it to the slave-shielded Unzervaltzians... Also, cloaking an entire starsystem could either be extremly hazardous, or very ointless.
If you can still see the gravity well in hyperspace, like you can see Ilwrath ships, then cloaking it from trealspace would be pointless, cuz you can still enter the systeems, and once inside the cloaking fielld, you must be able to see what is around you. Otherwise Ilwrath inside a cloaked ship would be invisible.
And if cloaking it means you can't see anything, not even the hyperspace gravity wells, it just means you'll suddenly fall into the system, and have no way how to get out. Just beacuase you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there.
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What's up doc?
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Culture20
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To make it different, the cloaking device could have been a graviton-cloak. This would allow your ship to travel unimpeded through enemy Hyperspace, but still be visible in combat (as an extra or special it could reduce the effect of the planet's gravity on your ship; hang by the planet like a skiff).
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« Last Edit: March 31, 2003, 03:09:23 am by Culture20 »
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Death 999
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I don't like a cloaking device -- if it's any good it's way too good.
Of course, if we had a different encounter system, with border patrols and stuff rather than random spawning, then the cloaking device could be useful -- you are only 'seen' by the enemy if you pass directly between two of them which are not further than X apart.
Of course, that would cease to be SC2... though it could be SC3...
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