Hibridium
found only on the western coastline of Garos IV's main continent, this ore was discovered to have a natural ability to cloak other objects. Thus, when the Empire discovered it, Garos IV was garrisoned and the mining of the ore strictly regulated. Prototype cloaking devices built from hibridium were nowhere near as effective those created from stygium, requiring huge amounts of power to operate, more room to house the system, and left the craft on which they were used "double-blind": they were invisible to other ships' sensors, but the using ship could not use its own sensors to locate other ships.