Card Extra

Phased Cloaking Device from Kathy McCracken (12/22/1999)

Ever wish you could cloak the Enterprise or a Runabout? Now you can, with a phasing cloak provided by this artifact. Granted, it's harder to acquire than the standard cloaking device that comes with any old warbird or bird-of-prey, and vulnerable to Disruptor Overloads. But to compensate for those drawbacks, it boosts the ship's RANGE by 4, lets it sail through Q-Nets with nary a Diplomacy aboard and renders it immune to such nasty hazards as Supernovas and Temporal Rifts, not to mention the usual methods of forcing a ship to decloak, including the Tachyon Drone. If you prefer space missions over planets, you can even seed it at the 50-point Pegasus Search without needing a Cryosatellite. Once you have your phasing cloak, travelling to your next mission will be quick work.

Combos:

• Phased Cloaking Device + Engage Cloak: Not only can you store up several turns' worth of movements, but each of those movements is 4 span more than normal. Spend a couple of turns on Engage Cloak and you can travel from one end of the spaceline to the other in the blink of an eye.
• Phased Cloaking Device x2 + Starry Night + HQ: Secure Homeworld + your homeworld: Earn a van Gogh by securing your homeworld and trade it in on Phased Cloaking Devices for two of your ships.