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In my thoughts on this "Invisible Race," I thought it might be beneficial to give to all as a common tech a powerful sensor which is expensive and only can be put on satellites, thus giving say the Federation a means to patrol its own boarders but unable to detect cloaked ships in foreign systems.
Problem is those sensor are only supposed to be very limited range.
A better way to simulate it would probably be with mines. Sweeping capacity should be quite low, and the mines quite expensive: describe it as a cluster of objects, withthe mine body being the sensor package, and the warheads designed in are weapon sats. (Change the pictures to match)
Any ship attempting to cross this border would be detected by the sensor sat (mine hull), attacked by the defense sats (warheads), and would manage to destroy at least one of the clusters.
Limit minesweeping ability to 1 sweep per 50KT or weaker, and make the sat clusters cost 10x what SE4 mines cost now.
I wonder if you could give a mine SpaceYard abilities, and get those Klingon self-replicating mines
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