A couple of Component questions...

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Greets Gents! Relative Newbie here with some questions:

1) What are the differences between Hyper Optics/Scanners/Gravitic Scanners?? What ~exactly~ do they do anyway? Are they related to Cloaking? Are Scanners giving me component info, presence info or allowing me to see Cloaked ships or all the above? (for instance).

2) What is the "Cloak" button actually doing to my ships which have only Cloak Armour III? (The one with the defensive bonus, no other Cloak related components on ship <<to my knowledge>>). Does it need to be clicked in order to work? Is there any reason to ever turn it off? (does is use supplies when turned on?)

3) Is there some document/excel sheet out there that actually tells what everything does? Some of the in game descriptions really don't tell me much -- like Hyper Optics vs. Scanners vs. Gravitic Scanners for instance.

4) Warp Weapons -- Do they damage a ship or Warp it to another Star System? Both? If to another Star System is is adjecent or random?

5) Do Phased Weapons damage Phased Shields at all or should one stop deploying them when first seeing Phased Shields?

6) Related: "Tachyon Projection Cannon....penetrates 'shields' and destroys weapons"...does that include Phased Shields?

Thanks in advance for your answers! I'm a relative new comer to SEIV, and just pushing past my first game over 100 turns. Having come across some of these new technologies I don't want to start adding them to ships only to have to refit them as soon as they float out of the shipyards hehe...