R O O K
- Intent: To create a modern, advanced cloaking device for future submissions
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- Manufacturer: Roble Manufacturing
- Affiliation: Confederacy of Independent Systems, Closed Market
- Model: SC2-41 Vihdar Mk I Cloaking Device
- Modularity: None
Production: Semi-Unique
- Material: Electronic Components, Synthetic Stygian Crystals
- Synthetic Stygium Crystals provide a manufactured reliability on the strength and power output of said crystals into the Cloaking Device
- The Vidhar is able to produce a cloaking effect for a ship under two-hundred-meters in length that effectively contours to the ship's hull, instead of a radius-obscurity
- The Vidhar is able to cloak a ship without interfering with sensor systems or transmissions.
- Decloaking and Cloaking operations are performed without any residual glow or tell-tale indication that could give a ship's location away, even when cloaked
- Contouring: The cloaking shroud that the Vidhar produces is extremely strong, comparably more cohesive and transparent than those produced by standard stygium, hibridium or adegan crystals (although the difference is not that severe). This effect is largely because, unlike mainstream cloaking devices that produce a spherical shroud, the Vidhar contours it's cloaking effect almost exactly to the ship's hull.
- Stealth: The Vidhar produces a shroud that obscures all sensor and completely hides a ship's hull from physical view. This effect also applies to windows or ports, allowing for a one-way-mirror effect.
- Not to Intrude: Unlike most Hibridium crystal cloaking device, the synthetic stygium crystals allow for the cloaking device to be active without interferring with sensor or transmission systems. The synthetic crystals are also much more reliable than their organic counterparts, and are less likely to be faulty or spontaneously not work.
- Smooth Transition: Unlike most Cloaking Devices, the Vidhar allows it's user to cloak and decloak without any significant visual or sensor indication (other than the ship disappearing).
- Expensive: Not to beat around the bush, the Vidhar is extremely expensive to produce.
- Smoking Gun: Although the Vidhar does not interfere with most ship systems, firing any projectile weapons will force the Vidhar to shut down (i.e. to fire a weapon, you must first power off the cloaking device).
- Hyperspace: A ship using the Vidhar must uncloak and recloak when entering/exiting hyperspace.
- Outsmarted: Crystal GravField traps and similar-style sensors are not obscured by the Vidhar cloaking device.
- Size: The Vidhar is only able to effectively cloak a ship that is under two hundred meters in length, depth and width.
The Vidhar Cloaking Device was created to be a fully-upgraded, advanced Cloaking Device that would give any ship it's implemented on a cutting-edge advantage in terms of stealth. Instead of using organic stygium crystals, the Vidhar utilizes specially-crafted synthetic crystals that are designed specifically for use within the Cloaking Device, adding more reliability than it's organic counterparts. The Vidhar also can cloak a ship without interfering with it's functions (except for hyperspace travel and weapon use) and creates a shroud that contours to the ship's hull. Last but not least, and perhaps the signature feature of the Vidhar, is the fact that the cloaking device is able to cloak and de-cloak without giving any tell-tale visual or sensor indication, something that adds more stealth to the design and function of the cloaking device.
