Seren Tech - Cloak Drive
Hope I'm doing this correctly......Description:
The Serendivus Cloaking drive is used by the Seren's to hide any manner of properity, from fighters to stations
There are several different kind of 'drives' each one corrisponds to a different type of spec, there are more but these are the most used
There's the Standard Seren Cloak Drive MK 1
There's the Special Forces Cloak Drive MK 2
There's the Station Cloak Drive MK 3
Standard Seren Cloak Drive MK1
The Standard Cloak MK 1 is fitted on all vessels, from the nimble fighters(medium and heavy), to the slow and steady destroyers. Although the Seren's don't have any destroyers, that's besides the point
The Standard Cloak drive allows a single ship to cloak for roughly three to six hours, depending on size
if it's a fighter it can cloak for up to six hours without needing to decloak. If it's a capital ship, and depending on size and type, it can be cloaked from anywhere to an hour or two hours
While this makes fighers basically invisible to all forms of scanners and deep space sensors, that doesn't exactly help the larger, more obtrusive, capital ships
The Capital ship's cloak drives have to constantly scan the ship for any changes (like a hanger bay door opening, a bent communications rod) if such anomalie's are detected, the on board AI must realign the cloaking drives field
The Cloaking Drive's are special technology that the Seren's have equiped with 'unique' AI's. This gives the drive the ability to auto self destruct in the event an enemy gets on board
The capital ship scale cloaking drives have another flaw - reduced speed and no sensors, along with a continious relignment every fifteen to thirty minutes, or when ever the ship fires and release's fighters
Fighters however remain unaffected by these changes (due to there size)
How it works is like this:
The Drive warps space around the craft and allows to disappear, sort of like Star Trek, but more elaborate. For the Medium and Heavy fighters though that isn't possible, instead they use a sort of Stealth Paradigm to acheive there cloak
Special Forces Cloak Drive MK 2
The Special Forces Cloak MK 2 is used on special fighters and ships, along with Commando Forces units. This is the only type of cloak that is capible of being used by a person
Within this there are two different types. Those worn by personel and those used on ship
Those worn by personel are not reliable, but do have a cloaking time of roughly thirty minutes before the suit must cool down - a flaw that it has because if someone has an infra-red goggle on then once the person decloak's they'll light up like a christmas tree
The Ship based SFC MK2 is more unique and powerful allows the fighter to remain cloaked while firing, making them hard to hit. The draw back is the on board AI constantly realigning the cloak field to compensate for the new data being generated when the ships fire
Both drives have a cloaking time of only 30-45 minutes, this is due to there ability of allowing the user to fire while cloaked.
Station Cloak Drive MK 3
The Station cloak is the most advanced form of cloaking the Seren's have developed and used.
Currently this is used on there colony's and stations, as well as the mobile shipyards that they have developed (Currently only six of those MS's exist)
The Station Cloak is so powerful, that it requires a seperate reactor in order to keep the station itself active, or Colony, which ever it is on
The Cloak allows the station to remain undetected by sensors. While this cloak is active no one may enter or leave the station by ship. Further more, communication is not possible with the station, even if a friendly is in the area the station comm. crew will not risk communicating with the ship
For stations they run along the same principle of cloaking as the standard drives. Basically they warp space around them
Any ships moored to the station also receive the cloaking benefit
Additional Information
The Cloaking Field is very fragile, if a stray laser blast or torpedo impacts the field, there is a 50% chance that the field WILL collasps (requiring a brief thirty second realignment)
Comments
#17 8:21pm 30/07/06
Agreed.
#16 1:51am 29/07/06
In this case I dont even care how it works, its Downfalls/Bonuses are so excellently balanced that its good as it is
#15 6:30pm 28/07/06
Here's the rp with the technology in use
[url="http://therebelfaction.com/forums/showthread.php?p=127680#post127680"]Labyrinth[/url]
The RP is more than 500 words though, so I hope that isn't a problem.
#14 12:22am 06/07/06
~shrug...
#13 6:52pm 05/07/06
Why not wait for the roleplay to describe it's operation rather than force people to get a PhD in Fictional Science. There is a second part to the R&D Submission after all.
If people still don't understand it then they can ask questions.
#12 2:33pm 05/07/06
Again, my biggest concern is the How of the thing.
How does it work?
#11 2:27pm 05/07/06
So what you're saying is that it's basically a passive sensor. That is indetectable. But the second it scans anything, it is detectable, even in those few seconds. Since this doesn't appear to be conventional tech, how exactly does this scanner work? Does it send out a pulse, wave, see, etc?
#10 2:12pm 05/07/06
Aye
The sensor itself doesn't really send pulse's persay, more like searchs space around the ship for any changes, when one is picked up it'll quickly scan it and then it'll appear on the HUD
Don't forget, the Seren's don't have the luxury of large numbers, so there RnD depends on reserve engineering, but also the quick minds and high IQ of others.
#9 1:32pm 05/07/06
Unless this is a special type of sensor, using a scanner of any sort could compromise your cloaking device. Scanning typically involves sending out pulses and recieving them back in a manner similar to modern-day radar and sonar. Thus, while your ships may remain invisible, the pulses can be tracked back to your ships.
Here's a little info regarding cloaking and mass from the Essential Guide to Weapons & Technology:
"Imperial cloaking fields completely absorb all incoming sensor scans and block all tl the host ship's emissions and reflected energy. In short, the cloaked ship is rendered invisible to both sensors and the the unaided eye. The only senosr that can detect a cloaked vessel is the relatively rare and expensive cyrstal gravitational trap (CGT), which searhes for gravitational fluctuations created by a large mass. Since the cloaked ship is still physically present, it cannot hide from this sensor."
#8 6:12am 05/07/06
I'm sure there are
I can only answer two of those questions, I must be honest I didn't give the other one much thought (I will have to research the mass one)
The Seren Cloaking Drives, depending on the use and function, might or might not require a massive amount of power (For Capital ships) that's why a seperate reactor is installed to help power them, however the capital ship in question needs to be made from the ground UP to accomodate the second reactor. You can't just take a derelect star destroyer and slap in a second reactor and the cloaking device, that won't work as the on board AI has to be 'taught' how the ship looks and what it is cloaking, as well as run seperate lines throughout the ship itself to help the AI know what it is cloaking 'exactly'
As for the "Double-Blind Effect"
The Seren's have managed to elimanant this annoyance with the use of a special sensor package located purely on the ships that are equiped with the drives in question. Again, like the cloaking drives themselves, the ships have to be build from the ground up to accomodate the sensor package
The package continiously scan's space around the ship (for a certain distance) and then display's it as a 3D image on the HUD (Heads up Display) this allows the pilot to continue flying, despite the fact that what it is seeing is just sensor data being coded into an image that the pilot can see - these scanning beams DO have the potentional of giving away the ships location, but thats ONLY if the other ships are monitoring the frequency of the scan beams
The scanning package range is the distance between Trandoshan and Kashyyyk (KM's are not my fortee) and rescans every 1-2 seconds (during these rescans though, there is a 'brief' static discharge from the cloaking drives as it realigns the cloak field
#7 5:44am 05/07/06
No worries.
Just a few things to consider:
Double-Blind Effect: Standard Imperial cloaking devices suffered from a notorious flaw; when cloaked the Starship in question cannot see beyond the borders of its own cloaking device.
Gravity Mass: Starships have mass. Mass creates gravity, more or less. Are you going to hide that mass? If so, how?
Power Demands: Some cloaks are minimalist, like the Stygium device (ie, 'Sith Infiltrator') while others have higher energy demands. How do you accomodate this?
That's just three. There are plenty more lurking in the depths...
#6 5:35am 05/07/06
I'll remember that next time, thanks Beff Pike.
#5 5:32am 05/07/06
Yeah. No, that's the part I think you should elaborate on.
If you don't write, when it comes down to crunch time, you're leaving a whole lot of room for your opponents to write it for you. That would suck.
#4 5:26am 05/07/06
Oh oh, sorry Beff.
In the case of [b]Capital Ships[/b] it warps space
In the case of the Medium and Heavy Fighters, it rely's on a Stealth Paradigm
Sorry about that Beff, I wasn't to sure what you meant
#3 5:23am 05/07/06
But how?
Does your Cloak warp space ala Star Trek? Does your cloak rely on various Stealth paradigms? How does it work. That's what I'm wondering.
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