I've decided the D.A. can have cloaks, but they are no where near the best. They use fuel requirements, and just about any ship can detect the cloaked ship, but not it's exact location. Everyone, wait to specify your ships, I'm doing ship classes now. Things are different. Here is the info on the Renegades.
After the battle of Gadzair, the Renegades cut off most of their ties with other govts, to go back to the way they used to be. After being attacked several times by both the Miranu and Azdgari, they developed new technologies. After almost a century of living within asteroid belts, they have developed broad advancements, revolving around their asteroid enviroment. They have developed strong long-range sensors that can accurately scan systems up to three jumps away. They can detect even powerful confed cloaks with their ground based sensor arrays, and their ships can detect a zidigar cloak in system. They have learned to create ships from asteroids, and turn asteroids into defensive drones. This goes a long way, but no one can forget the powerful PAM, a seeking weapon that does great damage and has a long range.
Photon Turret and Cannon 20 years ago, a renegade science fleet notices some odd energy signatures coming from an asteroid belt after the star the belt revolved around burned out. Upon close inspection, space ameobas were discovered on the asteroids. More research led to the discovery of photon energy. Photon turrets and cannons have a single space ameoba within a shell. When stimulated with electrical charges, the ameoba discharges a photon blast, that moves away at high speeds....Inaccurate, but above average range and average power.
Ameoba Drop More of an action than a weapon, this is a practice used by fighters that can get up close to enemy ships. The fighter will eject ameobas into space, and if they hit the victim's shields, they will suck a little bit of power from the shields, and then explode, doing average damage.
Photon Assasin Module These are basically upgraded SAD's, with thoron charged warheads. These have an extremely good range, and really good damage, although the launchers are bulky, so as a Lazira can barely carry one, and the Crescent Warship can carry two.
Asteroid Research Along with sensor arrays and space ameoba-based weaponry, the Renegades also use Asteroids for defense, both by installing sensor arrays, PAM launchers, or even fighter squadrons within hollow asteroids. The most unbelieveable technology the Renegades have gained through asteroids, is their ship class, named only "Rocks" (named after their base they lost so many years ago). These ships, in essence, build themselves, by using nanotechnology, asteroids will come together, and be turned into a vast ship. Although contstruction takes nearly a month to build one (5 posts), the construction does not require any resorces to build, although shipbuilding engineers are needed to oversee the operation.
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(This message has been edited by -REDCHIGH- (edited 02-19-2002).)
They would be no use to you anyway; they need a race like the Gadzair which has a lot of Psi energy to control them, and that big crystal helped a lot as well.