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Perhaps players can beg, borrow, or steal cloaking technologies if they really want it.
Only one ship at a time, since it is a racial tech.
Would you be interested in making the cloaking device tech stealable by others, but not researchable? It is fairly easy to do, and players would then guard their cloaks jealously.
Whenever they lose the tech to some other race, they would be forced to research an extra level higher in their cloaking and sensors areas, then guard the new tech.