Stealth Ship
Preventing detection in space is practically impossible, but stealth is such a powerful advantage that the realities of Physics have not stopped ship designers from trying.
Stealth ships are typically designed to defeat extremely specific kinds of sensors, under extremely specific mission profiles. This tends to limit their stealth functionality to only the circumstances that they were designed to operate in.
Some examples include the Daqin chū guó carrier which uses a hydrogen slush cooling system to achieve limited thermal stealth at extreme ranges. This only serves to reduce the time it takes for a thermal sensor to pick up the ship, due to the physics of thermal flux and radiance, but this limited reduction was considered valuable enough for the Daqin to include the system on their ships as it suits the Daqin's preference for operations on the edges of Human space.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any thread that begins by pointing out why stealth in space is impossible will rapidly turn into a thread focusing on schemes whereby stealth in space might be achieved. - James Nicoll
Preventing detection in space is practically impossible, but stealth is such a powerful advantage that the realities of Physics have not stopped ship designers from trying.
Stealth ships are typically designed to defeat extremely specific kinds of sensors, under extremely specific mission profiles. This tends to limit their stealth functionality to only the circumstances that they were designed to operate in.
Some examples include the Daqin chū guó carrier which uses a hydrogen slush cooling system to achieve limited thermal stealth at extreme ranges. This only serves to reduce the time it takes for a thermal sensor to pick up the ship, due to the physics of thermal flux and radiance, but this limited reduction was considered valuable enough for the Daqin to include the system on their ships as it suits the Daqin's preference for operations on the edges of Human space.