@Eternal: the reason for that is as profane as simple. - the order carrier was my project, - my concept. - this liberty carrier is xing concept and his project. - i am only posting that here, cause he asked me to finish his work ( converting and hardpointing and OpenSP testing )
all that is about the ship is entirely up to xing.
and yea - the reasons for me not giving the order carrier a roleplayed cloak was this:
the major part of the osiris was removed ( the cloaking mechanism ) to make room for hangars and carrier equipment. - a simple trade-off. - i mean - both, the cloaking mechanism and the carrier feature are both roleplayed. - in my case, the most important thing was to justify having a very compact ship capable of functioning as a carrier. - Xing on the other hand has made a carrier that does not care for dimensions.
this carrier is like 4 times bigger than the order carrier ( in case it is put into the game anyway ) - it is a flagship to be seen, no matter if its cloakable - but its HUGE. - for the order, - i thought - it was more important to have a smaller ship than squeezing everything into one ship.
of course, that is all just guesswork - for we do not know how much room a cloaking equipment takes up. - maybe its just as big as a little box... who knows...