[Suicide Junkie]

All should defeat Active and Passive, if included in the Mod.

Gravimetric and Temporal should be able to detect cloaked ships and others with ease, but should be VERY EXPENSIVE to research.

Note that we don't have to use the same categories as SE4 does. They could just as easily be "Generic", "Klingon", "Romulan", "Federation", and "Other". All you'd need to change is the descriptions.
Heck, you don't even need ability descriptions, and can just not add it to the point form ability list at all. Just describe the overall component as "Sees through cloaks, better at this or that, blah, blah, blah."

My idea for the cloaking involves races building up tech in generic scanners, and with the capture/analysis of a cloaking device, develop a scanner with strength in the appropriate non-generic scan type. ("Klingon", "Romulan", etc)
Thus, if one of your cloaked ships get captured, the rest of your ships with the same cloak might be compromised, and need a retrofit to a newer cloak.

[ June 26, 2002, 02:55: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]