| Rasuk_Mithren | Date: Thursday, 19 May 2011, 3:52 PM | Message # 1 |
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| I'd like to request a Stealth Field Generator for my bounty hunter Rasuk Mithren. The kind that the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders used that allowed them to become invisible.
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Thursday, 19 May 2011, 11:01 PM | Message # 2 |
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| I have to vote to DENY, I'm afraid. This is one of those instances where a few people using cloaking technology irresponsibly means none of the rest of us can use cloaking technology, either. This is why, in the past, it has been routinely denied here, as someone pointed out on your thread. (Here's a recent post about it, which links to less recent posts and precedents). Another reason I'm especially doubtful about personal cloaking technology is that it's something that as far as I know is specific to video games. It works well in a video game, of course, in which there are boundaries and limits on what "Player 1" can do. In an RP, though, where there are more possibilities and someone could conceivably, say, cloak themselves and then run down the street pantsing people anonymously, some kind of line has to be drawn. And it's easier to draw a line at personal cloaking technology, rather than saying you're not allowed to pants people, or any number of other malicious things a person could do with a stealth field generator. So those are the OOC reasons. How to explain it IC, though? Some explanation does seem necessary, since, if stealth field generators were in use 4 millennia ago, why not today? I feel like we should go with the "forgotten technology" excuse. Personal shields, for example. "From the era of the Jedi Civil War," says Wookieepedia, "personal shielding for individual units was commonplace... During the Galactic Civil War through the Yuuzhan Vong War, however, personal shield tech was all but lost." There's also a feeble explanation about how it didn't keep up with modern weapons, etc. Seems to me that we should assume some combination of these reasons account for there being no personal cloaking technology either (except for some prototypes the Empire uses on troops in The Force Unleashed, Jedi Academy, etc. Again, all video games as far as I know).
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| Jory_Carson | Date: Friday, 20 May 2011, 8:49 PM | Message # 3 |
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| I vote to DENY simply because it is a set precedent.
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| Karth_DeQora | Date: Friday, 20 May 2011, 10:46 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Sorry, Rasuk, I'm going to have to vote alongside McJace and Mt. for this one. DENY Karth "No stealth for you!" De'Qora Assistant Manager
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| Jace_Varitek | Date: Saturday, 21 May 2011, 4:58 PM | Message # 5 |
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| With three against, let's call this DENIED.
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Furthermore, a dancing Wookiee:
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