Klingon warp masking device

Background
This strange device, was developed by the Klingon Empire around 2230. It was used by the Klingons to 2260, when become totaly useless wich the continued improvement of UFP long range sensor arrays and the develop of Cloaking tech by the Klingons. By some historians, it's the prelude of the Klingon interest in cloaking systems....

What it's?
This device not is a cloaking device in the right sense. Only is a system that can masks the signals of the warp core when a ship is in warp.It makes really very tough to detect a ship in warp when are more far that one or two second-light. If a ship is more near that a second-light of a masked ship, can be easy detect in Visible, IR and UV spectrum, because not is a cloaking system, only hide the warp signatures of a ship in warp, that was used prior 2260 to detect ships in warp which long range sensors. In the last years of the 2250s, the UFP begin to use other systems to detect ships at warp in long range sensors, that not use the warp signatures and make this device useless. The device need warp fields to work, so, needs that the ship be at warp.

For the moment, the Klingons only used this new device in F8 Kom Ka'Des class, but the Intelligence of the Star Fleet, believe that the Klingon's are trying to put in the new D6 Battle cruisers, and in BoPs. We are lucky that this device, need a lot of power to work and need a huge space. Also, StarFleet is working in improving sensor arrays to make less effective. The last effort in sensor make this device useless in a range less of 1 U.A. (around 8 minutes-light).

Some times this device, was called the Klingon Super WECM (Warp Electronic Counter Measures). This device uses a lot of energy of the ship (making more slower when are using it), and need much internal space of the ship.

Classes

 * F8 Kom Ka'Des frigate class