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@@ -914,6 +914,29 @@ firing.</para>
 <para>Phasers have no effect on starbases (which are shielded) or on
 stars.</para>
 
+</sect1>
+<sect1><title>Cloak</title>
+
+<literallayout>
+  Mnemonic:  CLOAK
+  Shortest abbreviation:  CLOAK
+  Full commands:  CLOAK ON
+                  CLOAK OFF
+</literallayout>
+
+<para>The cloaking device prevents your ship from being seen by any enemy
+vessels.  When the cloaking device is in use, your subspace radio will
+not receive transmissions, torpedoes will be less accurate, you cannot
+dock, and you cannot use your warp engines. Enemy ships will get a
+chance to attack you when you turn cloaking on.</para>
+
+<para>The Treaty of Algeron with the Romulans in Stardate 2311 prohibits the
+use of cloaking devices. If a Romulan ship observes you cloaking or
+uncloaking after this point in time you will be in violation, which
+will hurt your final score.</para>
+
+<para>The Faerie Queene does not have a cloaking device.</para>
+
 </sect1>
 <sect1><title>Capture</title>
 
@@ -925,11 +948,17 @@ Full commands:  CAPTURE
 
 <para>Ask a Klingon To surrender.</para>
 
-<para>The Subspace Radio is needed to ask a Klingon if he will kindly
-surrender.  The weakest Klingon from the ones in the quadrant is
-chosen. The probability of surrender is a function of that Klingon's
-remaining power, our power, etc.</para>
-
+<para>The capture command provides a more humane way to end a battle than
+just destroying the Klingon battleship with the crew aboard. Assuming
+the subspace radio and transporter are working, and there is room in
+the brig, this command will ask the captain of the weakest Klingon
+ship in the quadrant to surrender.  If the captain agrees, some of the
+crew will transport to your ship and the Klingon ship will be
+destroyed. This command does take time and you will be attacked by any
+other enemy ships if the surrender occurs.</para>
+
+<para>When you dock, any captured Klingons will be transferred to the base
+and you will be credited with the lives you save.</para>
 </sect1>
 <sect1><title>Report</title>
 
@@ -1461,6 +1490,17 @@ Full command:  HELP &lt;command&gt;
 <para>This command reads the appropriate section from the SST.DOC file,
 providing the file is in the current directory.</para>
 
+</sect1>
+<sect1><title>Curses switch</title>
+
+<literallayout>
+Mnemonic:  CURSES
+Full command:  CURSES
+</literallayout>
+
+<para>Switch from tty to curses interface. Mainly useful for
+debugging, when continuing a replayed game.</para>
+
 </sect1>
 </chapter>
 <chapter><title>Miscellaneous Notes</title>
@@ -1616,7 +1656,8 @@ orientation</quote>.</para>
  ST        STATUS                                 (none)
  T         TRANSPORT                              transporter
  W         WARP &lt;FACTOR&gt;                          (none)
-
+ CU        CURSES                                 (none)
+ 
  L. R. Scan:   thousands digit:   supernova
                hundreds digit:    Klingons
                tens digit:        starbases
@@ -2041,11 +2082,8 @@ the Austin crew begin work on the UT FORTRAN version.</para></listitem>
 things, notably a job change and the birth of his first
 child.</para></listitem>
 
-<listitem><para>c.1977 &mdash; Tom Almy translates the UT FORTAN
-version to PDP-11 FORTRAN.</para></listitem>
-
 <listitem><para>21 September 1978 &mdash; This was the date on the
-first version Tom Almy saw, on which he based his later C
+first FORTRAN version Tom Almy saw, on which he based his later C
 translation.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>1979 &mdash; Marc Newman adds Tholians, black holes,
@@ -2076,7 +2114,14 @@ this time.</para></listitem>
 <listitem><para>9 October 2006 &mdash; Translation to
 Python.</para></listitem>
 
-<listitem><para>22 February 2017 &mdash; Color added.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>1 March 2017 &mdash; Color added.
+Cloaking device and capture command added from BSD (via Almy's
+2013 version)</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para>25 March 2019 &mdash; At long last, chart entries are
+uniformly dot-filled. (Suppressed in the plain and almy
+interface styles.)</para></listitem>
+
 
 </itemizedlist>