Cloaks and docking on hostile stations: Spice it up a knotch

[Binski]

Landing on the admin base in delta?

It sounds great in theory. Although in practice, it'd never be used with that intention. Very rarely will you find someone actually going along with that.

It'd also be a bit weird, if you're working in a station, and suddenly an enemy ship uncloaks in your hangar. Or someone else tries docking, and finds an invisible ship in their spot. Or mere tech stuff.

Well I figured there'd be a few exceptions, maybe snubs being exempt from the ability would make sense. However think of it more like a 'secret' docking, like attaching yourself to docking port by force or hacking the docking system to give you a hangar regardless. Although, I suppose it would be mostly planets that would be the best part about it, especially for smuggling reasons. In theory once you make it into the atmo you uncloak and manage to land ok. I'm reminded of the episode of Firefly where they sneak up on a station and forcefully dock to board it temporarily. Again because of being exposed upon undocking, permanent stays on hostile bases would be impossible, unless you wanted to be considered a 'prisoner' perhaps. POB's should probably remain exempt, but most npc bases are just buy or sell points for commodities, so why not let some plausible smuggling go down? So...I suppose if not all normal npc bases, planets for sure, and maybe not snubs. Pirates could actually steal Nobium and sell it on Denver, if they had the right tech, and still need to watch themselves on the way out. The other big use I saw was things like prison breaks, if inrp characters went to jail like some have, you could show evidence of any ship docking on the prison, ships not supposed to be able to, to signify an 'attempt' to get inside. Really its about opening up opportunities enticing unlawfuls to come in close to populated areas and allow for some chase/evasion scenarios to play out around the whole concept. Park a couple of ships with Cloak disruptors over manhattan by the mooring fixture/docking ring, and have a couple of scouts or other ships around, and you can totally force a cloaked ship be visible before docking, preventing them from docking altogether.

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