Cloaking, an alternate system

> At 07:35 PM 12/18/97 -0500, you wrote:

In the fleet we often use ESM (signal monitoring) to check our own systems for
noise and ensure emmisions security.

Gort, Klaatu barada nikto!

> Hey, in David Weber's Honor Harrington series, one of the things

> Which book was that? I remember ships maskerading as smaller units (eg
Oerjan

I think he is confusing Webers Honor books with Webers "On Death Ground". In
that book, the 1st contact ships had an ECM suite that produced a "Stealth
Field", Weber didn't use the term "Cloak". I think Weber was distancing
himself from anything ST.

> >> Hey, in David Weber's Honor Harrington series, one of the things

> I think he is confusing Webers Honor books with Webers "On Death

OK.

"IN Death Ground" is set in the Starfire universe, and the ECM suite used by
both sides is the ECM3 I mentioned above. I was one of the
play-testers
for the Starfire scenario monster which covers the war...

To me the difference between the Harrington books (which I read, but don't
game) and the Starfire books (which I use as background stuff in Starfire
design work) is blindingly obvious; I tend to forget that it isn't so for
others :-(