Build:Romulan Cloak-Enhancing Hull
4.12 Romulan Cloak-Enhancing Hull
Cost: 2 x Size
Power Requirement: none
Available: 2212
The Romulans construct some of their vessels, such as the D'deridex class Heavy Warbird, with special hulls whose shape and composition enhance the effectiveness of a cloaking device. Generally such hulls have a curvilinear shape, with relatively few straight lines or sharp corners to reflect an enemy vessel’s sensor waves back to it. Typically the body of the vessel sort of encloses the warp nacelles within this curvilinear framework, though the nacelles do not thereby qualify as embedded.
A ship with a cloak-enhancing hull increases the effectiveness of its cloaking device by 1. For example, a ship with a Class 6 cloak and a cloak-enhancing hull imposes a +7 Difficulty on attempts to detect it, rather than the usual +6.
A ship with a cloak-enhancing hull cannot also have ablative armor, an energy sheath, or a ramming hull.