Why aren't stealth field generators more common during the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War?
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The fan-favorite RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Rebpublic was the first to introduce a device known as a stealth field generator, which is a small, portable cloaking device that can be worn as a belt. There doesn't appear to be much mention of these devices outside of the Old Republic era (the only two exceptions mentioned being Star Wars: Battlefront II and Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy).
Why is that?
I understand that these devices have their limits (such as requiring the user to move slowly to remain cloaked, and it would take a particularly skilled user to be able to remain cloaked while running), but it still seems like these devices (or similar devices) would have been useful to the Jedi, the Sith, the Clone troopers, the CIS, the Rebels, or the Empire. But, not only do these devices not appear in the original trilogy or even the prequel trilogy, they're not even mentioned, with the exception of the type of cloaking devices made for starships. They probably would have been particularly useful to the Rebel ground forces during the Battle of Endor.
It's also worth noting that you can obtain one of these devices in the opening chapter of the first KOTOR (if you spent any points on stealth when creating your character), which would seem to suggest that these probably aren't too difficult to obtain.
Did the technology somehow become lost between the events of the Jedi Civil War and the Clone Wars? Did it become obsolete somehow?
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The fan-favorite RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Rebpublic was the first to introduce a device known as a stealth field generator, which is a small, portable cloaking device that can be worn as a belt. There doesn't appear to be much mention of these devices outside of the Old Republic era (the only two exceptions mentioned being Star Wars: Battlefront II and Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy).
Why is that?
I understand that these devices have their limits (such as requiring the user to move slowly to remain cloaked, and it would take a particularly skilled user to be able to remain cloaked while running), but it still seems like these devices (or similar devices) would have been useful to the Jedi, the Sith, the Clone troopers, the CIS, the Rebels, or the Empire. But, not only do these devices not appear in the original trilogy or even the prequel trilogy, they're not even mentioned, with the exception of the type of cloaking devices made for starships. They probably would have been particularly useful to the Rebel ground forces during the Battle of Endor.
It's also worth noting that you can obtain one of these devices in the opening chapter of the first KOTOR (if you spent any points on stealth when creating your character), which would seem to suggest that these probably aren't too difficult to obtain.
Did the technology somehow become lost between the events of the Jedi Civil War and the Clone Wars? Did it become obsolete somehow?
star-wars star-wars-legends technology cloaking star-wars-the-old-republic
asked 19 mins ago
Spar10 LeonidasSpar10 Leonidas
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The fan-favorite RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Rebpublic was the first to introduce a device known as a stealth field generator, which is a small, portable cloaking device that can be worn as a belt. There doesn't appear to be much mention of these devices outside of the Old Republic era (the only two exceptions mentioned being Star Wars: Battlefront II and Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy).
Why is that?
I understand that these devices have their limits (such as requiring the user to move slowly to remain cloaked, and it would take a particularly skilled user to be able to remain cloaked while running), but it still seems like these devices (or similar devices) would have been useful to the Jedi, the Sith, the Clone troopers, the CIS, the Rebels, or the Empire. But, not only do these devices not appear in the original trilogy or even the prequel trilogy, they're not even mentioned, with the exception of the type of cloaking devices made for starships. They probably would have been particularly useful to the Rebel ground forces during the Battle of Endor.
It's also worth noting that you can obtain one of these devices in the opening chapter of the first KOTOR (if you spent any points on stealth when creating your character), which would seem to suggest that these probably aren't too difficult to obtain.
Did the technology somehow become lost between the events of the Jedi Civil War and the Clone Wars? Did it become obsolete somehow?
star-wars star-wars-legends technology cloaking star-wars-the-old-republic
asked 19 mins ago
Spar10 LeonidasSpar10 Leonidas
2,07221332
The fan-favorite RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Rebpublic was the first to introduce a device known as a stealth field generator, which is a small, portable cloaking device that can be worn as a belt. There doesn't appear to be much mention of these devices outside of the Old Republic era (the only two exceptions mentioned being Star Wars: Battlefront II and Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy).
Why is that?
I understand that these devices have their limits (such as requiring the user to move slowly to remain cloaked, and it would take a particularly skilled user to be able to remain cloaked while running), but it still seems like these devices (or similar devices) would have been useful to the Jedi, the Sith, the Clone troopers, the CIS, the Rebels, or the Empire. But, not only do these devices not appear in the original trilogy or even the prequel trilogy, they're not even mentioned, with the exception of the type of cloaking devices made for starships. They probably would have been particularly useful to the Rebel ground forces during the Battle of Endor.
It's also worth noting that you can obtain one of these devices in the opening chapter of the first KOTOR (if you spent any points on stealth when creating your character), which would seem to suggest that these probably aren't too difficult to obtain.
Did the technology somehow become lost between the events of the Jedi Civil War and the Clone Wars? Did it become obsolete somehow?
star-wars star-wars-legends technology cloaking star-wars-the-old-republic
star-wars star-wars-legends technology cloaking star-wars-the-old-republic
asked 19 mins ago
Spar10 LeonidasSpar10 Leonidas
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asked 19 mins ago
Spar10 LeonidasSpar10 Leonidas
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asked 19 mins ago
Spar10 LeonidasSpar10 Leonidas
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