The Rebel Faction

TTR-ORS R&D

Device Name: Corruptor Cloaking Device
Designer: TTR Industrial/ Sovereignty Shipworks Ltd.

Through the application of common ores and some not so common ores, the formation of a newer alloy was formed. When this ally was placed in contact with crystals grown in the caves on Tholatin a strange reaction occurred. According to the government, the mountain in which the caves were located seemed to disappear. While at the time this seemed odd, a scientist from ORS found out that it was a natural cloaking device. Since then, teams have been at work establishing a device to be used.

Workers on Tholatin began to mine the ore and send it off to ORS for use in development. The technicians came up with a solution involving the coating of a ship with this material, and the application of a beam sending light from the crystal through tubes to hit the hull and pass through to the newly developed alloy. A small shuttle was equipped with a harmless laser in the cargo hold while being coated with this new material. Inside the device, the crystal was held in place by fiber-like wires that absorbed energy from the laser hitting the crystal.

These fiber-like wires, when the laser was turned on, absorbed the energy produced by the laser coming in contact with the crystal and sent it along the wires. These wires branched off into the hull the hit the metal. The ship essentially disappeared from every scope that ORS had on it. Nothing picked it up. The shuttle could have swept in the hangar of a capital ship before it was seen. This of course was only a prototype and unpractical for construction. It would take something a lot better to make it worthwhile.

It came around to one thing. A smaller laser was incased inside a durasteel tube that held the laser connected to fiber optic wires. This concoction was attached to the lower hull where it was the thickest, during the construction of the ship. Wires were then inlayed into the hull, which, instead of being lined with the alloy, was actually built of the alloy. When activated, the results were a bit less than with the test on the shuttle, but equally as effective. The scanners were not able to track the ship, and the ship was able to track the fleet. There was no double blind effect presented.

Although the material this was made out of was not easy to make, it was easy to purchase the materials required. The metals would then have to be heated at gargantuan degrees before mixing properly to form the alloy. Only kilns that were hidden on an ORS planet could do it. Not only was it hard to make the device and it’s components, the ship it was installed on had to meet requirements.

Requirements:
1)* * * * The ship cannot be over 1000 meters in length. Early tests done on ships over a thousand meters in length, expensive as it was, proved not too be effective. The cloak was unable to accurately cover the ship in an impregnable cloak and the ship was left exposed. The cloaking device was a waste of space.
2)* * * * The ship had to be able to handle the stress of a cloaking device. The device requires a lot of power and sometimes it is best to build in a generator only for powering the cloak.
3)* * * * The new material requires small amounts of hibridium along with 2 parts crystasteel and one part durasteel. The resulting compound is very strong and when hit with energy from the crystals makes a sensor exempt bubble.
4)* * * * Requires specially mined crystals from the planet Tholatin and there isn’t an endless supply. The crystals should be used wisely and not wasted on unnecessary vessels. Possible in the future the crystal could be transplanted.

R&D Requirements:
1)* * * * 20 days to R&D
2)* * * * Adds two days to build time for ships using the technology (One day for actual cloak, one extra day for new hull material)
3) Can only be detected by Sonar, CGT’s, and the eye when close enough