From the desk of the Majicrafter,
  

I went through tonight and built a lot of combat functions to make it easier to add new enemies and speed along the battle coding.  I added an element of chance to the battle and enemy ships can now return torpedo fire too! 


Fig A.  Doing battle with a republic cruiser and a republic scout.

Fig B. A republic cruiser sends a torpedo!

There is also an option to "volley" torpedoes but I haven't built the animation yet.
The "cloak" function is built but no art for cloaking yet, the "scanning" function is also built but not yet implemented but I did code the function tonight.