[Val]

I like the hide in asteroids bit, could also give the ability to small ships (Scouts, Escorts, Destroyers) as well as fighters. I had actually considered the asteroid cloaking all ships/fighters myself while I was editting the quadrants and such, but had set the idea aside.

I do have a question with Scanners though - If a ship has a cloak component with level 3 Gravitic (or whatever it was called), do you need a gravitic scanner of higher level to penetrate? Or can you also penetrate with an EM/Active scanner of sufficient level?

As to Vorlon's cloaking, never really saw it happen in the show or books, though they should have scanner jammers to avoid scanning at distance. I know the Shadows had the phasing in and out of Hyperspace, but that wasn't like the Star Trek cloaking, they actually entered and left Hyperspace during the combat, it was as if they were jumping into and out of combat, not actually cloaking their vessels (there is a rule in the AoG stuff that allows them to phase in and out to avoid being targetable, unless you follow them into Hyperspace). So I would say no there too.

On the other hand, the Torvalus (Dark Knife vessel in the Coriana fight with all the ancients) do have a real cloak, the technomages also have a cloak (and Illusions) and the Hyach have some sort of cloak. The fact that the Technomages can do it suggests the Shadows should be capable (as Technomage tech is derived from the Shadows), but maybe the Shadows never bothered or just preferred the enemy see them coming. I believe the Drakh may also have one, though not sure.