adywan said:
rcb said:
for the cloaking device debate, the sith infiltrator, maul's ship, was a craft developed by the sith and since it was created by the sith, it has a cloaking device. the sith aren't retards and they needed to keep a low profile. i'm sure someone would've noticed a sith infilitrator taking off out of couruscant traffic. its a bit noticeable.

and ady, no offense to u, but u can't take everyline in a movie, in this case ESB, seriously.

Isn't the whole "Sith infiltrator having a cloak" having a cloak an EU thing anyway? because it certainly isn't in TPM. If the sith created cloaking devises for their ships then why the hell when a sith is ruling the galaxy doesn't any of their ships have a cloak? Another useless EU addition. The amount of ships flying around Coruscant, with many different types coming and going, do you really think one little ship would stick out? no.

And it has nothing to do with taking every line in ESB seriously at all. It has to do with continuity. The EU and especially the PT for that matter, should have taken what was said in the OT seriously then we wouldn't have the amount of fuck ups between the 2 trilogies and having the EU trying to explain it all.

As much as I really try to avoid conversations of this type my pedantry gland is over active today.

If the Sith did develop secret stealth technology it would make sense not putting in every ship of the Imperial fleet because then their cutting edge top secret technology would become common place. If the Rebels got hold of one Imperial ship they'd have mini cloaking devices too, their advantage would be lost and the Star Wars saga would be a visually exciting as Invisible War And Peace.

The technology could be sitting in a secret vault somewhere just in case the Sith order had to go back undercover for another thousand years but frankly it's a silly idea, cloaking devices belong in Star Trek, not Star Wars and certainly not Doctor Who.