However, such cloaking shields also came at a disadvantage to their users because they drained a large amount of energy from the starship's power plant, and (though dependent on the size of the device) a single unit cost millions of credits. Thus, any cloaked vessel was unable to hide from the CGT. The only sensor capable of sensing a 'cloaked' vessel was the expensive and rare Crystal gravfield trap, which tracked the gravitational fluctuations created by a large mass in space. Below lay the power cells, which were connected to the cloaking field matrix by a series of wires.Ī Republic stealth ship cloaking during the Battle of Christophsis. A single cloaking device unit towered over the average Human with a balloon-shaped computer core standing over a series of cloaking field antennas. While sensor jammers could leave a starship invisible to sensors, cloaking devices generated cloaking fields that completely absorbed all incoming sensor scans while shielding the host ship's emissions and reflected energy, thus rendering the starship invisible to both sensors and the naked eye.
No ship that small has a cloaking device.' ― Captain Lorth Needa, regarding the Millennium Falcon
