Quote:Well, yeah, at least as regards their ability to operate effectively on passive sensors - active ECM might make it harder to actually hit you, but it also kinda precludes hiding.
Regarding ECM. Since we've established that the humans are the only ones who have any particular sophistication with it, and they are probably not going to know this going in, so ECM for something like the SDF will be majorly on-the-ball, they're going to have a fairly big advantage here. This is one the subs are definitely going to use to their advantage. Sub crews are well practiced at the slow, stealthy approach, and the ECM advantage is only going to make that better.
OTOH, space is big, and with the ability to dissipate waste heat into the quantum foam, there's nothing to stop these scouts from just vanishing. Obviously, they're going to give themselves away when they accellerate, but at low boost and with Terran-built baffling gear, they might well be invisible to Zentradi equipment, which I'd figure as being mainly aimed at finding big, noisy capital ships or zippy, wasteful armored troopers.
Anyway, I'd mostly figured that the ECM thing would provide an excellent explanation for why our invicible Zentradi legions shoot like Imperial Stormtroopers.
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