Malloy switching off his holographic generator.
A holographic generator, also holographic emitter, was a device that projected an image onto a light field. The Planetary Union and the Calivon utilized holographic generators to manufacture disguises capable of evading detection by both bioscanners and the naked eye, and thus were more useful than cloaks, which could not fool scanners.
The Planetary Union acquired holographic generation technology from the Calivon around early October, 2419, by reverse-engineering a captured holographic-generating buoy.[1]
According to the comics, the Krill captured a holographic generator in July 2420 off a Transporter-class vessel.[2]
Description[]
A hologram was projected by a generator onto a light field. While little is known of the device, it seemed to vary in size according to its purpose. A Calivon generator that projected the USS Blériot from a buoy was quite large;[1] a Union generator that projected a Krill soldier disguise onto a person could be held in the hand, and was called a "miniature" generator by Helmsman Gordon Malloy. Holographic projection was sensitive to strong electromagnetic forces.[3]