Submitted by MrDave on Sun, 05/22/2005 - 19:19
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Jamie,
I formatted your ships to make them more legible. I also struck out the "organic cloaking device" on all of them. It is enough that they are practically immune to ion cannon fire by being organic, they don't need cloaking devices too.
For information about why the Calicotian ships are organic and how they were developed read Jamie's character profile.
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RE: Calicotian Ships
fair doos to that i didnt even think about ion cannons on the ships the cloacking device wanst a biggie i was just useing it as an reason for why the caliscotains have manged to stay out of the genreal knowlage of people in he galixey :wink: but like a said fair doos the cloacking device wasnt a biggie
RE: Calicotian Ships
The interesting thing about cloaking devices in Star Wars, though, is that like Shields, they work both ways. A ship with a Cloaking Device activated can't use its sensors if that's what you're masking (Heir to the Empire books), and if it blocks sight as well, has to send out recon craft (Hand of Thrawn), besides just being expensive as hell. Of course, this being Star Wars, we should probably remember that it's a big galaxy - we hardly get to see ALL of the general knowledge stuff in even the films.
RE: Calicotian Ships
It is a big galaxy. It is easy to lose things. The planet is in the middle of a perpetual ion storm. The Caliscotains lack many of the sorts of resources they need to be more than mercenaries in the larger sceme of things.
Heck the entire planet of Camino - the home of the unparallelled Clone Masters who cloned an entire army for the Federation got misplaced...
RE: Calicotian Ships
i always wonderd were the hell the Camino's got the star destorys from gess we will never know :roll: but yes fair doos to losieng the cloacking device it wasant a biggie realy, adam
dose that apply for hand held cloacking devices as well im not even sure if they are coverd in books but in the games lucas arts were pumping out they made alot of aperances, i was just starting to write up the ranking system of the caliscotians and weapons they are issued i was planning on giving the more elite of the bunch hand held cloacking devices becuase if they had to hunt jedi perhaps not being seen right away was a bonus but obviously becuase of the jedi sences it would be considerd a bit of an edge rather than an one up on the jedi
RE: Calicotian Ships
I have no idea. In the games, it doesn't seem to do so. Of course, games rank pretty low on Cannon Heirarchy. I certainly can't recall personal cloaking devices ever arising in any of the books. Potentially, it might well apply to a hand-held cloaking device without some other aide.
The Defel come to mind - they have something of a natural 'cloak' and need the held of special visors to operate in standard lighting conditions. Why? Because their eyes are specialised to IR; and it also happens that they're really only visible in that spectrum for various reasons.
So, one interesting thing you could do is apply a similar principle to a hand-held cloak: it works both ways, but we have a technical workaround. Say, it bends light in the 'human' (and most sentient lifeform) visible spectrum. This would also work both ways. Fortunately, the Caliscotains took a lesson from the Defel - their Jedi Hunters get to use visors which work in some other spectrum, and then convert the image to human-visible. Kind of like the Defel visors to convery human-visible to IR.
RE: Calicotian Ships
I've always wondered that too...like I wondered how they managed to produce armour, guns and tanks without anybody noticing *shrugs*
I GUESS you could say the Camino's only built a couple to transport the first wave as seen in AOTC, and then KDY, Corellia, Sluis Van and Bilbringi went into overdrive...
RE: Calicotian Ships
I always thought it was Kamino
RE: Calicotian Ships
course my spelin skilz is well known to be bad :lol:
RE: Calicotian Ships
It is Kamino, as far as I know.
RE: Calicotian Ships
See? See? It proves my point. It is easy to missplace an entire planet just by filing it under the wrong letter. :oops: