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The Esaal have a powerful weapon here- a stealth cruiser. You should have one of your own. And you'll do it better.
<span class="mu-r">”Invisible materials can only be “on” and can't be turned off as needed? We don't know if it's even possible to mask a gravity distortion on any object that has mass? Do I care? Get it done. I don't care how- tear out the AI cores of nonessential services! Increase motivation- Offer a housing class upgrade to any man who makes good progress. Or two wives! I don't care! No cost is too high!”</span>
While quite expensive, several research projects and concepts are given a large amount of funding. Many under qualified researchers are given grants and facilities, many will fall out, but a few will yield results. You pull promising students out of life science, ecology, and infrastructure programs specifically to work on theoretical stealth materials- plus the massive amount of resources that need to go to cover up all this secret research from any outgoing and interplanetary signals. After all, a stealth cruiser should remain at least a little bit of a secret. It'll take a few years to finally get a working model out there- but when it is finished you could fly the ship cloaked to the Esaal's homeworld, sit in orbit, and they would never know.
Meanwhile; your focus is pulled away from the Cold War with the Esaal at the moment to a new opportunity- somewhere much closer to home.
