[Some thoughts on stealth ships..]

1) Visual cloak (look ma a romulan warbird!). Lots of energy needed to do this -- it takes the gravitational pull of a singularity to bend light like that.

Termodynamics. Learn them.

 

You can't hide a ship in the absolute zero temperature of the vacuum. And mAss Effect's physics on the Normandy are bullshit, same goes for Star Trek Romulan stealth. Your HEAT cannot be contained on a ship for a prolonged period of time as travelling through space requires. So no, "Heat Stealth " is impossible in itself.

 

The Star Trek Romulan Cloaking Device is not bullshit, because in that sci-fi universe they have the ability to warp space. The warp drive, remember? What the Cloaking Device does is a space warp. When it is cloaked, the ship is not really physically there except for barely enough that they can use their sensors to see the real universe. I'm not sure what they do with the heat. But since Romulan ships use artificial captive singularities for their power and drive, they probably figured out how to dump the extra heat into that.

 

Same deal for Mass Effect. When you have speculative science of things that we don't KNOW are impossible, they're not bullshit. They're just sci-fi.

[Scripting Languages]

Everyone has a favorite scripting language but eventually we all have to write some of everything. LUA is not hard to learn and works perfectly well.