scanners are supposed to show you ships several sectors away, not systems.
they let you see what component a ship exactly has.
to defeat cloaking, your has to be equipped with a sensor component one level higher, or was it the same level ?, then the cloaking device on the other ship.
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too late
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Q: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
A: Yes.
Q: And what were you doing at that time?
[This message has been edited by LemmyM (edited 21 June 2001).]