Deploying Stealth sats

[Ruatha]

I want to deploy a satelite in my enemys system without him noticing it, it should be an early warning system in case he sends an invasion force towards me.
The ship that shall deploy is cloaked with stealth armour, the satelite also has stealth armor.
This is how I expect things to go (Simultaneus game):
1.(turn 1) The cloaked ship arrives and deploys the sat.
2. (turn 2) The sat is deployed and shows up on all scanners, including my enemys.
3. (turn 2) I cloak the sat.
4. (turn 3) It disappears from my enemys scanners, but now he knows where it is and is sure to build a ship with hyperoptics to scan for all my stealthy satellites!
5. (later) He destroys my early warning system.

Is there someway to deploy it already cloaked?

[ December 18, 2002, 07:55: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[dogscoff]

Send your cloaked ship into an obscuring storm sector & drop the sat in there. It would still be worthwhile to cloak it, becasue hyperoptics etc can still see through storms (if you research the right level) and I think your cloaking will add to the obscurity. Also, he might develop stellar manip and clear the storm...

[Ruatha]

Will my sat see out through the storm?

[zaphod-42]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
...I think your cloaking will add to the obscurity. ...

I don't think so. If i have hyperoptics or temporal sensors level III i'm able to see everything cloaked even in sector storms.

Originally posted by Ruatha:
Will my sat see out through the storm?

Yes.

[Phoenix-D]

Level 3 scanners can see everything except IIRC through certain nebula (NOT storms)

Cloaking does not add. The highest cloak level for each type is used..

Phoenix-D

[Ruatha]

Does a storm that says:
"There is heavy radiation causing combat sensor interference" hide my sat. Or does it just interfere in combat (It says so)?