Planetary Cloaking

• During scanning, there is a first roll to check if the scan was successful. If it was, a random planet is picked from the galaxy. If the planet that was picked has cloaking, then a 2nd roll takes place.

• If the planet's cloak is greater than the ship's scan rating, the scan will fail.

• Cloak is only one line of defense, and relying on it exclusively is not a guarantee of protection. However, if you can get the cloak of a planet that no one else has scanned to over 8000 (including legion bonuses) it will be a challenge for anyone else to ever find it through traditional scanning. Equipping five of the most powerful researchable scanners available (Continuum Analyzer-Mark III) will only give a ship 4800 scan strength, so it would take a very extensive set of artifacts (both temporary and ship modules) and likely the Explorer Profession as well to get a scan strength high enough to even start having a chance at seeing a planet with that much cloak.

• Planetary cloak is completely ignored in the case of a critical hack.

• Below is a list of current planetary cloaking artifacts:

Name	Size	Planetary Effect	Cloak per Size	Build Cost	How to Get?
Jammer Satellites	2	25	012.5	500 CR	Sensor Jamming
Shroud Satellites	3	75	025	50,000 CR, 10 Darrinyte	Wideband Jamming
Stealth Satellites	4	150	037.5	500,000 CR, 10 Erixion	Quantum Jamming
Cloaking Satellites	5	250	050	5,000,000 CR, 10 Dieterion	Subspace Jamming
Anti-Tachyon Satellites	6	500	083.3333	50,000,000 CR, 50 Dysillon	Anti-Tachyon Jamming
Inverse-Flux Satellites	7	800	114.285714	500,000,000 CR, 50 Aidonium	Inverse-Flux Jamming
Spy Uplink Chassis	1	40	040	Free	1000 Artifact Points
Cross-Signal Restrainer	1	30%	Special	Free	Medal
Counter-Intelligence Nexus	2	150	075	40 Blue Badges	Battle Market
Magnetosphere Charger	0	10% +50 1	Special 1	120 Dark Badges	Battle Market
Quantum Accelerator	2	150	075	104 Dark Badges	Battle Market
Adumbrate Station	1	200	200	Free	Base Crate (level 5+)
Anti-Resistance Base	5	100	020	200,000 CR and 5 Political Favor	Attack on the Resistance
Bioship Landing Platform	1	Various	Various	Free	Imminent Conflict
Chron Shifter	1	300	300	Free	The Dark Theft
Ergosphere Filter	1	150 + 20%	150	Free	The Aevax Experiment
Meta-Tuned Jammer (Cloak)	1	25%	Special	Free	The Crimson Defector
Meta-Tuned Jammer (Research)	1	10%	Special	Free	The Crimson Defector
Permafrost Sub-Network	1	50 2	050 2	Free	Beneath the Snow
Prejor Beacon Jammer	1	75	075	Free	The Beacon Search
RSL Data Uplink	2	100	050	Free	Network of Secrets
Sha'jha Link Upgrade	1	120 3	120	Free	The Sha'jha Uplink
Void Barrier Chassis	1	110	110	Free	Darkness Falls
Zolazin Void Tower	1	100	100	Free	Spoils of War
Isolation Bureau	2	200	100		CT-Lab
Isolation Bureau (on a planet only YOU have scanned)	2	400	200		CT-Lab
Resonance Inhibitor	1	250	250		CT-Lab
Dark Anti-Beacon	1	150	150	Free	Dark Command Nexus
Dark Pylon Shifter	1	90	090	Free	Dark MegaComplex
Gift of the Void	0	040	Special 4	Free	Scruuge Ravager
Interspacial Fold Generator	0	100 5	Special 5	Free	Lazuli Fabrication Plant
Silthion Gas Vesicle	1	150	150	Free	Silthion Queen Silthion Hive Colony
Clandestine Revisions	0	250 6	special 6	3 Relic Badges	Mission Market

¹ Max 3,500 passive cloaking (may exceed this if cloak is just below 3,500 when you apply the last one).

² Doubles on Icy Planets (or Icy turned to Oceanic)

³ Upgrades an existing Spy Uplink Chassis, doubling research and tripling cloak bonus without increasing size.

⁴ Max 500 passive cloaking.

⁵ Max 3,100 passive cloaking.

⁶ Max 5,000 passive claoking.