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Some ships have a built-in cloaking device allowing them to be invisible for enemy races.
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The device needs to be switched on by setting the ships mission to "Cloak".
 
Cloaking burns Max (5, Floor((hull mass / 100) * 5))kt of fuel per turn.
 
Cloaking has some useful side effects:
* the probability to hit a mine is much lower (just 25% of the normal probability)
* cloaked ships can not be attacked
 
A cloaking device can fail too. In this case the owner of the ship gets this message:
<pre>We've had a problem in our engine room. Our cloaking device has failed!</pre>
 
The [[The Empire of Birds]] has two ships with an [[advanced cloaking device]].
 
=== Counter Strategies ===
Being attacked by ships with a cloaking device can be tough.
 
There are mainly two more or less effective counter measures:
* lay many minefields where you suspect cloaked enemies (preferably overlapping minefields)
* get in hold of [[Loki Class Destroyer | Lokis]] which will decloak any cloaked ships with in 10 ly around it (doesn't work against [[advanced cloaking device]]).

Latest revision as of 03:40, 1 June 2011

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