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==I hear there's some way to get a cloaking device for the [[The Flagship]]. Where can I find it?==
:There's no such thing.
:The box in which the original [[Star Control II]] came had a screenshot of an earlier version of the game on the back, in which a [[Cloaking device|cloaking device]] could be seen in the devices menu. 
:This led to rumors on [http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~starcontrol/board/YaBB.pl the Star Control boards] of [http://www.star-control.com/ the Pages of Now and Forever] that the released Star Control II still contained a cloaking device somewhere. Angelfish, one of the regulars on that board, eventually claimed to have found it, and went as far as to mock up some screen shots to "prove" it. [http://web.archive.org/web/20000416005343/http%3A//www.cam.org/~lafranc/sc4board/messages/5029.html His posting] can be found on [http://web.archive.org/ the WayBack machine], and [http://www.star-control.com/images/faq/cloak.gif the fake screen shots] on the Pages of Now and Forever.
:While [[Toys For Bob]] eventually denied the existence of a cloaking device for the Precursor ship, the hoax was for some time still frequently played on newcomers to Star Control and the [http://uqm.stack.nl/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl old The Ur-Quan Masters boards].
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::O.K., O.K. I must admit the conversation threads relating to the cloaking device have been the most amusing to someone who knows the truth and after six years I don't think it will diminish the game to put this matter to rest. No, there is no cloaking device. Yes, there was going to be one, but we couldn't figure out a way, given the limitations of two players fighting on the same screen, to make it functionally better/more interesting than the [[Ilwrath]]'s.
:A trace of the cloaking device can be found in the Star Control code which was released to the public, in the form of a definition of an (unused) flag named "FLAGSHIP_CLOAKED".

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