Cloaking Question...

[Zereth]

alarikf said:
...and, in addition, a ship that has passive cloak "on" should not be able to scan anything. It would be flying blind (except for stellar phenoms, planets, etc... which are pre-mapped out). This would make the cloaking system much more like modern day submarines/sonars...and a lot more subtle in their usage...

hmmm...one possible issue there is that a passively cloaked ship would, obviously, be able to recieve scans from its empires' other ships in the system...hmmm...this too is not too weird, since submarines today do "communicate with HQ" even when "running silent and deep"...and then if you had *only* a passively cloaked ship in a system (with said cloak "on") then you should have no visibility into other ships in the system...

that would be neat.

Maybe in SE5...


EDIT: I think I'll suggest this in the SE5 hopes and dreams thread...

There's no reason having passive cloaking on would prevent htem from using their _own_ passive sensors. However, while this would lety ou see planets and so on, and ships visible with passive sensors, it wouldn't provide as much detail as active sensors. If nothign else, the crew could use the curde passive EM sensor system known as "Vision".