Talk:Prometheus Corporation Naval Fleet/@comment-24142455-20150122142557/@comment-11135771-20150122184014

Cloak isn't infallible, you know. Prometheus has cloaking too; they know what to look for and how to counter it. At minimum, Blacklight-class EW ships will be able to easily detect cloaked ships, and most likely most important ground facilities could do the same. Then there are also dedicated spy satellites in orbit.

Anyway, the point is you don't have the ability to maintain constant patrols over Prometheus territory, otherwise that would mean you could just destroy them completely via invisible fleets. Occasional scout sorties maybe, since there won't be detectors everywhere, but if you had constant patrols, some would get detected, thereby altering Prometheus of their presence and prompting them to build more detection, and then you definitely wouldn't be getting in.

Also, I don't believe you ever mentioned having cloaked patrols flying over my land, so you can't just have them pop into existence out of nowhere now that it's convenient.

Oh, and then there's still the issue that you would have had to be looking in exactly the right place at exactly the right time even if you did have a cloaked scout.