Advanced Equipment - Cloaks, Cloak Disruptors, Jump Drives, Docking modules

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Cloaking Devices

Cloaking Devices are advanced Equipment allowing your ship to be undetectable both visually and by scanners. You don't vanish, meaning you can still crash into objects. An active cloaking device deactivates the shields of the ship using it. Cloaking Devices also consume Cloaking Batteries while in use(even while charging). Any ship with a CM Slot is capable of replacing that one with a Cloaking Device. Cloaking Devices are illegal or require registration in some houses, check the respective laws. A Cloak can be disrupted by shooting the ship with a CD during charge or with a Cloak Disruptor within range.

Notes: Cloaking Devices must be built on PoBs or in the case of Nomad ones, bought on their respective installations.
All cloaks have a cooldown time of 120 seconds. This cooldown only applies when you are hit with a cloak disruptor.
People who are cloaked can be detected by listening for a 'humm' that is emitted to all players within 3k of a cloaked ship.

But not every ship can mount every Cloaking Device. These are the limits for the various ship types:

Name	Max Cargo Space	Used Cargo Space	Charge time	Consumption	Max cloak duration	Shiptype(s)
Batteries used:	Cloak Batteries
Light Cloaking Device	480	10	20	2/sec	8:00 Min.	Snubcraft, Light Gunboats
Cloaking Device Mk2	900	200	20	2/sec	7:00 Min.	Gunboats, Cruisers
Cloaking Device Mk2 Advanced	1800	450	60	1/sec	15:40 Min.	Heavy cruisers, Battleships
Batteries used:	HeavyCloak Batteries
Cloaking Device Mk3	-	600(+2 each bat)	20	1/sec	16:20 Min.	Transports
Batteries used:	Nomad Cloaking Device Batteries
Nomad Lesser Cloak	480	10	30	1/sec	16:10 Min.	Snubcraft
Nomad Greater Cloak	900	120	60	1/sec	15:40 Min.	Gunboats, "Irra" Nomad Purifier
Nomad Superior Cloak	-	450	120	K'Hara Only	Infi-	Battleships, "Irra" Greater Nomad Purifier

Cloaking Devices can be activated and deactivated with the /cloak command or by binding it to a key in the settings.