Vehicle:Monitor/Defense2

Some Monitors are known to be trailed by huge, billowing clouds of electromagnetically-charged particulate exhaust, the significance of which remains a mystery. Perhaps it indicates some internal industrial process. Whatever the cause, this cloud sometimes doubles as another layer of defense. Crackling with lightning and EM radiation, it confuses scanners and targeting systems, reading an enormous diffuse blob where a hard-edged Monitor ought to be. The grit also degrades directed-energy weapons, which are forced to expend some of their power penetrating the smog. Finally, the cloud serves as a simple visual countermeasure -- a Monitor you can't see is a Monitor that might be about to do anything.