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From the 'Incredible Cross-Sections' SW 1 Edition:
Republic Cruiser (the red ship at the begining): predecessor of the Blockade Runner length: 115 m crew: 8 max. # passengers: 16 2 8-person escape pods 1 special 'salon/escape pod'
Trade Federation: Landing Craft: 370 m wide on board: - AAT's: 114 - MTT's: 11 6 double laser turrets
MTT (Multi Troop Transport): 2 double laser turrets 112 troops length: 31 m heigth: 13 m max ground speed: 35 km/h max lift altitude: 4 m
AAT (Armoured Assault Tank): length: 9,75 m max speed: 55 km/h 1 primairy laser turret 2 twin secondairy turrets 6 energy shell projectile launchers
Droid Starfighter: length: 3,5 m 4 blasters 2 energy torpedo launchers
Droid Control Ship: diameter: 3170 m 2 primairy sublight engines 12 secondairy sublight engines max signal broadcast range: 16500 km 1500 droid starfighters 50 landing crafts 42 quad laser turrets
Queens ship: One of a kind unarmed lenght: 76 m 3 decks hyperdrive class 1.8 max crew: 8 8 astro-utility droids for maintenance/repair
Sith Infliltrator: armed star courier rebuild as a unique infiltrator designed by someone called Sienar (in the SW universe), sounds familiar? cloaking device 2 decks length: 26,5 m crew: 1 max # passengers: 6 6 lasers
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Yes, there are cloaking devices in the SW universe. It is even mentioned in 'The Empire Strikes Back' when Solo hides the Falcon by clamping to a Star Destroyer.
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The length of the main Trade Federation ship is about correct compared to the Republic Cruiser, but the Droid Fighters are about 5 or 6 m long, when compared with standard droids:
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I believe a resounding "duh" is in order. Of course there are cloaking devices in Star Wars. Unfortunately, "no ship that small is equipped with a cloaking device!"
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Actually, the line was, "no ship that small has a cloaking device," IIRC. Either way, it's open to interpretation. Perhaps he meant that of all the known existing cloaking devices, none were installed on a ship that small. Or something along those lines.
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But what that guy didn't know is that they were working on the TIE Phantom around that time, the smallest ship in the SW universe (to my knowledge) to be equiped with a cloaking device.
BTW: I was hoping for someone noticing that Sienar Fleet Systems is the company that designed all the TIE ships, and that the Sith Infiltrator is in fact a TIE predecessor.
One more note on that cloacking device: Because they tend to be very large it is generally presumed that a ship of that size is not equiped with one. About 3/4 of the forward section is used to house the cloaking device in the Infiltrator. The rest of the systems are very small (like in the TIE designs).
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And if you have that book, you'll see that the cloaking device in the Infiltrator is about as big as half the ship, almost the entire forward part of the ship.
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Actually, I'm going by Timothy Zahn's books, in which a Star Wars cloak renders the ship invisible, but it also renders it completely blind and deaf. Nothing in, nothing out.
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Well, that's not completely useless. If you needed to effect repairs or something, it might help.
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