[geeks] engage your cloaking devices!

[Phil Stracchino]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Even if you stick strictly within the idea of concealment in warfare, it
> would still be useful because while you could tell there was an object,
> you would likely not know what it was.

In which case you'd fire on it on spec, and destroy it using a shell
that probably cost a hundredth to a thousandth of the cost of the
cloaking device, just to be sure.  The enemy would go broke trying to
decoy you with false cloaks.

> Any enemy has to decide: "Is this a real target, or a projection, a
> mirage, a decoy, or is it maybe one of my own units the enemy has
> cloaked to trigger friendly fire?"

If the enemy has the ability to cloak one of your own units without you
ever becoming aware that they've done so, you are *SO* screwed your only
hope is to surrender right now.



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