The local fellow was leading them deeper and deeper into the scrapyard, and every so often Paul had to make sure to mark where they had gone on his HUD because quite frankly he was getting very, very lost. He was just glad for his mask and helmet, otherwise he'd be disoriented to all hell and probably would just fall and give up without guidance. Really, he wondered how all these junker people hadn't yet dropped dead from all the nastiness of the area; smoke and smog, debris, crime. 

Looking to Maya, the junker shrugged. "Depends, depends, depends. Cutting the cloaking unit from the wraith is just a few credits nothing hard. Installing it on a destroyer though? Now that's tricky business. For example we could make it simply cover the active decks, and if you seal and deactivate all other parts of the vessel to remove their signature it'll work perfectly against most standard scanners outside of the heavy duty buggers on science vessels and such, but the parts of the ship not covered are going to be still technically visible to the naked eye. Of course with the zerg not a big deal any more you don't have to worry much about visual report, but its still a bit of a threat." The fellow turned into a junction of several gutted ships.

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"You can also have the cloaking field cover your whole vessel, that'll be mighty expensive of course depending on exactly how big of a destroyer you pick." to demonstrate, he pointed out two of said vessels side by side: one was very small, little more than an engine, a single laser battery, a cargo bay and a command deck with all the other parts of the ship cut off. Beside it was almost a pristine ship covered in all sorts of different armaments, with many cargo holds, reinforced plating, scanners, and many more accessories & upgrades. "But regardless of how big, there's a problem with powering the whole surface area. A wraith's cloaking system is designed for something the size and shape of a wraith. To cloak a whole ship that isn't a wraith will mean you exhaust it very fast if you do it completely. You can try to save some energy but that will incur the risk of little flickers in the cloak. Statistically improbable and all that, but you won't be happy when it happens."

Sitting down on a pile off rubbish the junker crossed his arms. "Of course, you can chop out the cloak module from a dozen wraiths and then be sure any ship is wholly cloaked, although then comes the problem that at a certain point of a ship's size cloaking is useless, they can see the shimmer of the field. With a destroyer you won't run into that, but anything bigger and you certainly will." 

It was a long monologue, but the local bastard sold each option very enticingly. "I think just having one to apply to the command deck and engines will work, all other systems can be sealed and shut off if we don't want to be detected. Stealth is better used to avoid fights than to win them."