Holographic field

Technology has been developed to enable the projection of a opaque field around a warpship, giving the appearance of it being another vessel entirely. In conjunction with a certain organization's beacon data, which are used to identify ships as friend or foe, this technology enables a warpcraft to fake its identity as that of another craft. This can be thus used to confuse opposing forces as to whether a warpship that is seemingly one of their own ships actually belongs to an enemy, or to confuse them into thinking that a vessel is actually one of a different class.