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