Pretty cool; but doesn't seem entirely game accurate to me. The transition between visible and invisible seems right, but the final invisible state seems off.
I seem to recall being able to see the Strakha even when it was fully clocked, but you had to be pretty close (it had to take up a good part of the screen. More often than not you could somewhat see it right before you were going to bump into it or its shields). When fully clocked it had a kind of glass-like quality; you could still see edges and detail, as though the most main lines of the model wireframe were visible or rendered or something. (Or does this "glass like" appearance only occur on the easiest level or two of the difficulty settings which I play at?)
A part of me wants to say that the transitional state is off, that it should fade from full color to grayscale than to invisible rather than this random plasma-like effect, but that might be my memory confusing what a strakha looks like when cloaking and what the cloakable excalibur cockpit looks like.
Still, it is amazingly detailed and a pure joy to watch.
Hehehe.
---The Prototype Incident---
The real reason the facility was destroyed and its workers killed.
"Engaging cloak" <szlip> "Control, the ship cloaked... too well. I can't read the displays or see the controls or even see my own hand."
Pilot fumbles around trying to hit de-cloak button. Torpedo unlocks from hardpoint and falls to deck, crushing foot of an unwary technician.
As technician reacts he looses balance, falls over onto monitoring and backup control console, activating a dumbfire missile and firing it.
Missile flies over project supervisors head leaving him burnt bald and missing an ear before flying through the viewing window that leads to the test-bay control room. Unfortunately Thrakhath is standing there, back to the strakha watching the main display monitor as the missile makes a dead-on hit of his personnal exhaust pipe.
Some time later...
...after undergoing the painful removal of the dumbfire missile...
...and getting everyone to swear secrecy about the event cause honor, and workers contracts, prevents them from simply being killed over the incident...
...and the physical recovery needed...
[during the opening animation of WC2],
Thrakhath orders the test facility and all its works utterly demolished and the extermination of anyone who knew anything about it to prevent it from falling into Terran paws, hrr, hands.
YEAH... RIGHT... he just wanted to put an end to jokes. And the fear that that the Terrans might just find some unerased backup security tape of the incident and put it into some properganda/comedy show. Or worse, a porno.
Now you know the real reason why Thrakhath had it destroyed and had its workers killed.
