Cloaking

Cloaking technology, or simply "cloak tech" refers to all forms of technology whose purpose is to obscure individual beings or objects from detection and identification, or be it by the sensory organs of living beings or via some sort of technological sensor. Cloaking technology can range from anything from active camouflage, to devices that befuddle the scanners of ships, to image projectors which allow for technological illusions.

Optic Screens
Optic screens, more commonly known as "camera scramblers", and even more simply as "camscrams" are devices which serve to provide obfuscation from optic sensory arrays such as surveillance cameras, and even the "eyes" of various cyberminds. Optic screens emit an energy field which disrupts the ability of optic sensors to properly process any areas where the field is present. Depending on how advanced (and as a result, expensive) such screens are, their effectiveness can range from simply rendering the image of an affected area extremely blurry, to making the area mostly invisible, but for a few distortions, or completely masking the zone covered by the screen's field from detection.

Personal optic screens can be used to allow individuals to cloak themselves as they move, and are often employed by criminals who would like to avoid detections by cameras.

Portable projectors are larger devices, ranging in size depending on the breadth of the zone they are designed to cloak from technological optics. Portable projectors are widely used in military encampments, to prevent them from being spotted by enemy aircraft or probe drones.

Optic screens are also found in certain starcraft, and are used by stealth ships and smugglers to avoid detection by other vessels or defensive platforms. Starcraft optic screens are among the most common form of cloaking devices used on starcraft.