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 up high enough, it will be a challenge for anyone else to 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 high scan strength. The maximum scan for various professions and races is tracked on the Scan Blitz page.

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

• For the standard "best" passive cloak option, see this forum topic. However, that analysis excluded the subsequently released Morphogenic Suits and Chronophase Receiver. The easiest initial option is to use the Interspacial Fold Generator on an initially non-cloaked planet to get its passive cloak to 1000, then a series of Clandestine Revisions artifacts cheaply available from the Mission Market to get the passive cloak up to 5250. Both of these artifacts are quite easy to get in large numbers.

• 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	083.33	50,000,000 CR, 50 Dysillon	Anti-Tachyon Jamming
Inverse-Flux Satellites	7	800	114.29	500,000,000 CR, 50 Aidonium	Inverse-Flux Jamming
Spy Uplink Chassis	1	40	040	Free	1000 Artifact Points
Cross-Signal Restrainer	1	30%	%30	Free	Medal
Counter-Intelligence Nexus	2	150	075	40 Blue 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	25 (VTiny) to 275 (MCol)	025 to 275	Free	Imminent Conflict
Chron Shifter	1	300	300	Free	The Dark Theft
Ergosphere Filter	1	150 + 20%	%20	Free	The Aevax Experiment
Meta-Tuned Jammer (Cloak)	1	25%	%25	Free	The Crimson Defector
Meta-Tuned Jammer (Research)	1	10%	%10	Free	The Crimson Defector
Morphogenic Inhibitor	1	300	300	Free	The Hunt for Mawks task #2 Release Morphogenic Pulses
Permafrost Sub-Network	1	50 1	050	Free	Beneath the Snow
Prejor Beacon Jammer	1	75	075	Free	The Beacon Search
RSL Data Uplink (artifact)	2	100	050	Free	Network of Secrets
Sha'jha Link Upgrade	1	120 2	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	50 Refining Lab Chassis, 50 Calming Amplifiers, 50 Dark Pyramids, 100 Energy	CT-Lab
Isolation Bureau (on a planet only YOU have scanned)	2	400	200	50 Refining Lab Chassis, 50 Calming Amplifiers, 50 Dark Pyramids, 100 Energy	CT-Lab
Resonance Inhibitor	1	250	250	50 Dark Pyramids, 30 Containment Cages, 40 Spy Uplink Chassis, 100 Energy	CT-Lab
Polaron Emitter	1	100 + 15%	%15	60 Spy Uplink Chassis, 60 Quantum Firewall Traps, 60 Positron Clouders, 200 Energy	CT-Lab
Dark Anti-Beacon	1	150	150	Free	Dark Command Nexus
Dark Pylon Shifter	1	90	090	Free	Dark MegaComplex
Magnetosphere Charger	0	10% +50 3	%10	120 Dark Badges	Battle Market
Gift of the Void	0	40 4	N/A	Free	Scruuge Ravager
Interspacial Fold Generator	0	100 5	N/A	Free	Lazuli Fabrication Plant
Silthion Gas Vesicle	1	150	150	Free	Silthion Queen Silthion Hive Colony
Clandestine Revisions	0	250 6	N/A	3 Relic Badges	Mission Market
Morphogenic Suits (ability)	0	75 7	N/A	5000 Exotic Matter	The Hunt for Mawks: Showdown in Taladar task #1 Find Lady Mawks
Chronophase Receiver	0	400 8	N/A	Free	The Tenebris Discovery task #1 Run Chronophase Analysis
Xecti Ensconcing Field	0	80 9	N/A	Free	Xecti Recrudescence

¹ Doubles on Icy Planets (or Icy turned to Oceanic)

² Upgrades an existing Spy Uplink Chassis, doubling research and tripling cloak bonus without increasing size.

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

⁴ Max 500 passive cloaking.

⁵ Max 3,100 passive cloaking.

⁶ Max 5,000 passive cloaking.

⁷ Max 6,000 passive cloaking.

⁸ Max 7,000 passive cloaking.

⁹ Effects doubled if planet solo.scanned. 15 uses available. NO MAXIMUM CLOAK LIMIT.