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Yep . that's the idea .. picture this:

"A 'lone' miner is busy drilling holes in a Jaspet rock. He has 'miner 1' so it's going to take a while - which can be dangerous in this 0.3 security sector. You never know who's going to turn up.

Low and behold, the asteroid belt shudders to the sync signature of two cruisers dropping out of warp. They take no time at all to turn their attention to the lone miner, after all he/she is easy prey with a nice cargo load and only a miner 1 and a few sharp words for defence. They lock on, quickly routing the helpless Indy to the spot with a good dose of 'warp scramble' and 'stasis webifier'.

The Indy is doomed - no doubt - and a podding is on the cards. He/she knew that it was a bad idea to mine the sector - after all, these pirates had claimed the roid belts as their own hunting grounds for the last two weeks and the evidence was strewn across miles of space in the form of burnt out pods, looted cargo containers and twisted capital class super structure.

As they closed in for the kill, the pirate corp were far too complacent about their next 'easy meat' kill to notice the Maller and Omen class cruisers gently powering up from deep within the belt ... 5 in total. The first they knew about it was when they received a lock on warning - but that was only seconds before the heavy beam lasers carved great holes through their hull and armour plating ... and with the volley of gremlin fire incoming, they didn't even have the power in their capacitors to jump to the nearest gate.

Begging for mercy in their pods didn't seem to help much ... pretty soon it was over.

The Indy smiled then got on the Com ... "Nice work people, seems like our job here is done. We have another similar job in Kador system, lets move out". With that, the fleet jumped from the belt.

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There you have it ... Power Down (and power up if we ever want to get the ships started again without getting out and pushing them). It would work just as well for Pirates.

Of course - a powered down ship would be one without shields or sensors - which means that if they are found then they are easy prey.

Just a thought .. brought to you by :

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Yep . that's the idea .. picture this:

"A 'lone' miner is busy drilling holes in a Jaspet rock. He has 'miner 1' so it's going to take a while - which can be dangerous in this 0.3 security sector. You never know who's going to turn up.

Low and behold, the asteroid belt shudders to the sync signature of two cruisers dropping out of warp. They take no time at all to turn their attention to the lone miner, after all he/she is easy prey with a nice cargo load and only a miner 1 and a few sharp words for defence. They lock on, quickly routing the helpless Indy to the spot with a good dose of 'warp scramble' and 'stasis webifier'.

The Indy is doomed - no doubt - and a podding is on the cards. He/she knew that it was a bad idea to mine the sector - after all, these pirates had claimed the roid belts as their own hunting grounds for the last two weeks and the evidence was strewn across miles of space in the form of burnt out pods, looted cargo containers and twisted capital class super structure.

As they closed in for the kill, the pirate corp were far too complacent about their next 'easy meat' kill to notice the Maller and Omen class cruisers gently powering up from deep within the belt ... 5 in total. The first they knew about it was when they received a lock on warning - but that was only seconds before the heavy beam lasers carved great holes through their hull and armour plating ... and with the volley of gremlin fire incoming, they didn't even have the power in their capacitors to jump to the nearest gate.

Begging for mercy in their pods didn't seem to help much ... pretty soon it was over.

The Indy smiled then got on the Com ... "Nice work people, seems like our job here is done. We have another similar job in Kador system, lets move out". With that, the fleet jumped from the belt.

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There you have it ... Power Down (and power up if we ever want to get the ships started again without getting out and pushing them). It would work just as well for Pirates.

Of course - a powered down ship would be one without shields or sensors - which means that if they are found then they are easy prey.

Just a thought .. brought to you by :

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Isn't stuff like white noise ECM, supposed to do the same thing?

I haven't got into electronic warfare yet, but looking at some of the kit, it looks to me as if you can kit a ship out to be nigh on radar invisible. Unless the player 'sees' you and clicks on you, you don't see the "here l am" crosshair. Correct me if l'm wrong.

It would be a good idea used as an added effect to existing stealth technology, but it shouldn't be an easy replacement for it.
After all, a rock is pretty inert and you can still pick that up and scan it.

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Isn't stuff like white noise ECM, supposed to do the same thing?

I haven't got into electronic warfare yet, but looking at some of the kit, it looks to me as if you can kit a ship out to be nigh on radar invisible. Unless the player 'sees' you and clicks on you, you don't see the "here l am" crosshair. Correct me if l'm wrong.

It would be a good idea used as an added effect to existing stealth technology, but it shouldn't be an easy replacement for it.
After all, a rock is pretty inert and you can still pick that up and scan it.

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It's a nice idea, but I see one flaw in the logic: Why wouldn't an unpowered hunk of metal show up on scan, when the regular (and certainly unpowered) roid does?

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It's a nice idea, but I see one flaw in the logic: Why wouldn't an unpowered hunk of metal show up on scan, when the regular (and certainly unpowered) roid does?

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