The cruiser pandora reported a number of hostile ships in T37 some three hours ago, proceeded to reinforce, arrived to see the Pandora already engaging one maltese destroyer and gunboat. Despite defeating the maltese cruiser, we could not remain due to the arrival of another hostile gunboat. An already damaged Pandora was disabled, while my own Thanatos disengaged after exchanging fire with the enemy.
On another note, following this action, a brief patrol in T23 revealed Kusari activity on a scale I don't recall seeing before. Two ships, appearing to be republican navy were fighting GCs near Cali. I remained undetected.
The stealth apparatus, while certainly useful, is only such very briefly. While sacrificing integrity, of which a cruiser could have several times its current, we can only remain hidden for at best two minutes. beyond which, our cruiser is but a mediocrely sturdy AA platform.