Por que os geradores de campo furtivo não são mais comuns durante as Guerras Clônicas e a Guerra Civil Galáctica?

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The fan-favourite RPG Star Wars: Os Cavaleiros da República Velha was the first to introduce a device known as a stealth field generator - a small and 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 (from 2008) and Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy).

Por que isso?

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 numerous factions in Star Wars (Rebels, the Empire, Sith, etc.) But, not only do these devices not appear in the original or prequel trilogies, 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 do primeiro 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?

por Spar10 Leonidas 28.04.2019 / 05:28

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There aren't much information on this in canon, but the articles on Wookieepedia states only few elements like Stygium e Hibridium as sources for stealth tech.

Again canon hasn't really addressed Cloaking much, but the legends entries for the aforementioned says that they are very rare elements and each only found on a few or even only a single planet.

Canon does state that stealth tech is used by Shadow troopers and by Grand Moff Tarkin on his personal ship, so my best guess is that the Empire completely controls these resources and tries to keep them hidden from the rest of the galaxy, while they work on how to best weaponize them.

As for captain Needas quote, if the Empire completely controls the technology any non-imperial stealth ship would have to be pre-imperial-era tech. Perhaps even pre-republic. Perhaps miniaturization wasn't possible with the tech available at that time?

Finally, as was pointed out in the comments, KOTOR is C-canon at best, so asking why KOTOR tech isn't available is sort of like asking why Kyle Katarn (who incidentally had a personal shield generator in his games) was stealing the same battle station plans during the time of Rogue One.

29.04.2019 / 10:32