OSD Project "Seker"

[Omicron]

Log 3, Project leader Sullivan Avery

Origins of the cloaking device...

Our ancestors have long ago tinkered with possibility of making an object simply disappear to a human eye. Approximately two hundred years ago before Sleeper Ships ventured forth out of Sol, we have started understanding basics behind this kind of technology. During course of Sol war, Coalition was first to perfect it and deploy stealth fighters to theatre of war. While it almost perfectly bent light around ship, it was far from providing absolute stealth. Higher resolution scanners that were developed by the Alliance later to counter stealth fighters proved to be able not to detect presence of vessel but also achieve a target lock.

Eventually entire concept was scrapped by future Sirians until house of Liberty in 7th century A.S. tried completely new principles to apply similar effects to one of their experimental dreadnought hulls. Experiment proved to be absolute failure: energy required to cloak one battleship required combined energy of more than ten battleship power cores. This new kind of device blocked all kinds of emissions coming from ship itself, leaving in the end nothing that would allow to combat warship in any way.

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Not many know but this experiment of Liberty scientists was crucial to how we understand cloaking technology today. As Nomad War came to an end and multum of Nomad-Human tech hybrids reached our scientists hands, we discovered that the two work essentially the same. What set us apart by centuries is making device efficient in terms of energy consumption. These days we are able to cloak ship of any size for certain duration.

End of log.

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