Approved Tech Nightcloak Emissions Veil Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

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• Intent: To create a Kainate exclusive emissions management suite that masks thermal, ion, and RF signatures, schedules short silent approach and egress windows, and enables surgical strike profiles under heavy defenses.
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  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Nightcloak Emissions Veil Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Bloodsteel Trace Foil Sheathing
  • Alchemized Sarrassian Iron Substrate Grid
  • Hexphase Thermal Sink Channels
  • Micro-Louvered Heat Shunts
  • Cryo-Wick Capillary Matrix
  • Ion-Absorbent Baffle Tiles
  • Sigil-Wire Control Lattices
  • Bloodpane Spectral Filters For Sensor Apertures

• Veil-Web Thermal Sink Channels: A lattice of hexphase sink channels runs from the engines and weapon mounts into deep wing-root reservoirs. Micro-louvered shunts and a cryo-wick capillary matrix pull heat off hot spots and store it as latent energy, delaying re-radiation until the egress window. Under combat throttle the web bleeds heat in controlled trickles across a wide area, smearing thermal cues into background clutter rather than sharp spikes.
• Bloodsteel Trace Foil Sheathing: The outer skin is overlaid with Bloodsteel trace foils tuned for emissivity control and broadband attenuation. By modulating impedance across tiles, Nightcloak blends the Velakorr's RF and IR return into harmless starfield noise and local albedo lines. The foils also damp hull-borne harmonics, reducing acoustic and vibro sensors' ability to draw a clean track.
• Ion Bloom Scrub Manifold: Ion-absorbent baffle tiles crown the engine bells and weapon vents, scavenging charged efflux that would otherwise paint the sky with bright plumes. The manifold redirects and cools bloom into sink channels while bleeding a faint neutral mist to equalize charge. Pursuit radars see a thin smear instead of a signature trail, and point-defense predictors lose reliable range gates in the last seconds before release.
• Shadow-Profile RF Null Mesh: A conformal null mesh under the skin shapes and phase-cancels incidental RF emission from onboard electronics. It redirects residual noise along the wing roots where the signal profile matches natural interference lines. The result is a cross-section that reads smaller and stranger than the Velakorr's true mass, frustrating lock quality for seekers and fire control arrays.
• Silent Window Orchestrator: Nightcloak's control brain pairs with the Scry-Lens and fire control to time short periods of extreme low signature. It precools sinks, trims avionics chatter, gates nonessential emissions, and sequences weapon priming so the approach and egress occur inside these windows. Crews get a crimson countdown on the HUD, and when the clock hits zero the bomber is colder and quieter than anything its size has a right to be.
• Bloodpane Spectral Aperture Filters: Sensor windows and the bomb-bay lip are laminated with Bloodpane micro-filters that pass mission bands while rejecting waste glow. The filters flatten internal reflections and keep lensing flashes off enemy scopes during last-second attitude changes. Even under nearby detonations, the panes hold their clarity and keep Nightcloak's masking intact.
• Grav-Balanced Heat Shedding: After the strike, the suite vents stored heat along vector-aligned trails during turning climbs or in the shadow of debris fields. By coupling vent timing to current G-load and attitude, plume geometry mimics environmental background rather than forming a telltale fan. This prevents a single bright dump from burning the veil as the Velakorr exits.

• Multi-Spectrum Signature Suppression: Nightcloak reduces thermal, ion, RF, and vibro-acoustic cues at the same time, which breaks the chain most defenses use to confirm a track. A scope that sees a heat smear cannot find the matching RF spike, and a radar that hears a whisper cannot square it with the ion plume. This cross-domain denial forces defenders into low-confidence shots and late locks.
• Timed Silent Windows: The orchestrator creates brief approach and egress windows where the Velakorr's signature is dramatically lower than baseline. These windows are long enough to cross the last kilometers, drop, and break away before sensors regain a clean picture. Wings can stack their windows to pass in sequence, turning a defended corridor into a blind passage.
• Point Defense Degradation: By flattening bloom and smearing returns, Nightcloak causes range gates and predictors to drift at the exact moment flak and lasers should be crisping the air. False cues waste cycles and ammunition while the real profile slides past on a cold line. Survivability at the merge rises sharply without broadcasting an obvious active jam.
• Doctrine Integration: Nightcloak is written into Velakorr timing. The Scry-Lens schedules the window, the bay autoloader primes munitions on the quiet beat, and Hexpulse spines only light when a kill is likely. The result is a strike that looks choreographed, with emissions and kinetics moving like a single hand.

• Force Nullification: When under Force Nullification, the sigil-wire control lattices and Bloodsteel foils cannot maintain their tuned bias. Nightcloak falls back to a largely passive state where sinks still absorb heat but cannot coordinate precooling, phased bleed, or shaped vent trails. Silent windows shorten and may drift off schedule, and the airframe runs hotter after any lance cycle or heavy bomb release. Crews mitigate by stretching ingress, avoiding throttle spikes, and using geometry and debris shadows until clear of the null field.
• Sustained Fire: The suite's sinks are finite. Prolonged lance firing, repeated heavy releases, or hard engine burns past the planned window will saturate the reservoirs. Once saturated, the bomber must vent or run hotter, and either choice raises detection risk until maintenance crews recharge the system.
• Battle Damage Sensitivity: Punctured sink channels, torn foils, or cracked baffle tiles create hot leaks that read like flares to enemy scopes. Even small perforations can spoil the veil across entire sectors of the airframe due to disrupted flow paths. Damage control can isolate sections, but full performance requires dockside replacement and re-tuning.
• Low Profile: Nightcloak reduces signature and lock confidence, but it does not erase the vessel from the battlespace. The ship can still be tracked, although it's extraordinarily hard to lock onto. In practice, enemy sensors fail to build a confident firing solution before the silent window closes, which is exactly the timing the suite exploits.

Nightcloak Emissions Veil Mk. I was built in the forges of Malsheem to let a vessel move like a rumor. Initially designed for the Velakorr-class Sith Tactical Bomber. The Velakorr's role is precision annihilation at knife range, and that demands a skin that never tells the same story twice. Nightcloak routes every giveaway the hull can produce into tuned channels that carry heat and noise away from the places enemies expect to see them. What comes off the frame reads like the sky itself, a cold smear in the wrong place, a faint ripple where the background already wavers.

Nightcloak is a low-observable emissions veil rather than true cloaking; defenders may still register the craft, but the return is thinned and smeared so fire-control struggles to achieve a confident lock in time. At the heart of the suite is the veil-web, a body of hexphase channels that drink heat the way a lung drinks air. Engines, weapon mounts, and high-load avionics feed into wing-root reservoirs that wait for the egress cue. The moment the Scry-Lens marks a silent window, the orchestrator pulls the bomber into a colder posture. Nonessential chatter dies. Sinks stiffen. Micro-louvers pivot to hide the last bright corners. The Velakorr crosses defended air with the signature of something far smaller and far less interesting.

The engines do not paint the sky with a tale of pursuit. Ion-absorbent baffles scrub the plume and feed its energy into the web, while a neutral mist equalizes charge before it can scatter. Under the skin, a null mesh drags stray RF into harmless lines along the wings where background clutter lives. Sensor apertures stay honest through Bloodpane filters that pass only what the mission needs and keep telltale lensing flashes off enemy scopes.

Nightcloak is not an invisibility trick. It is discipline made into hardware. It demands crews who can fly the plan and weapons that can live on a quiet beat. If the Velakorr shoots too long or burns too hot, the sinks fill and the veil thins. If flak claws away panels or a missile rips a channel, leaks bloom like lanterns against a black field. Skilled defenders who have captured enough of Nightcloak's smears can narrow their guesses and watch for the silence where there should be noise.

Used as written, the suite changes how battles feel. Defenses bark at ghosts while the seam opens. Bombs fall through clean air and the lance writes its signature in a place no one tracked. The Velakorr turns away as Nightcloak exhales heat along a harmless line, then vanishes back into the dark. For a platform built to draw sigils of ruin across ships and fortresses, the first sigil is silence, and Nightcloak is the hand that writes it. It became so effective that it could easily be utilized by many small vessels.

 

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Darth Prazutis

Very cool sub again!

Approved.