So, what's the roof hatch for?

Flimley

Flimley
It's the David Braben emergency escape pod special.
Blinds your opponents with more 'exciting' than they have ever experienced before!!!!


Flimley
 
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Shurimal

Shurimal
I doubt it's a hardpoint as it would block the Large HP behind it. Best quess—greebles. Maybe an emergency exit for annoying passengers. Or a limpet attachment point so that Thargoids can use tissue sampling against humans🤡
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
As the P2 will have the SCO drive installed as original equipment, it is the hotplate for your steak or Quiche (Kale, anyone?) for perfect nosh after a 12KLs jaunt...
(and no, I have no idea if the SCO is going to be in the P2 as standard)
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
So far the top serious suggestions (here and elsewhere):
  • It's nothing. Purely cosmetic detail.
  • It's a hardpoint hatch (possibly for a large or huge weapon).
  • It's the deployment hatch for some kind of heat exhaust vent or radiator (possibly related to SCO).
 

Vedmo

Vedmo
I‘m guessing that’s the FSD jammer and we will be getting a high wake snare mechanic.
Edit:
Now that I suspect part of its function will be to sell a delay bypass, I’m thinking something big, maybe EMP or cloaking as well.
 
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Northpin

Northpin
Vedmo said:
I‘m guessing that’s the FSD jammer and we will be getting a high wake snare mechanic.
Edit:
Now that I suspect part of its function will be to sell a delay bypass, I’m thinking something big, maybe EMP or cloaking as well.
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Or an embedded Overcharge for the FSD? So it can be used with 5A FSDv1 for example? If so, P2-early-W will get a new meaning in ED
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
So now that the ship is out, does anybody have a better idea?

Maybe it's not a hatch at all...

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Three Stars

T
It’s the Poultry Management And Numeration System. When hauling poultry products throughout the galaxy it tracks the number of birds as they flap and waddle in and out of your ship, thereby freeing you up for other tasks. If you want to verify your cargo you only do it after they pass through.

You never count your chickens before they hatch.
 

Shurimal

Shurimal
Andy_Pipkin said:
It says "Coolant" there, so it's part of the cooling system, and probably just for the optics.
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So, the heat radiator for life support system. That makes sense. Not that life support heat is modelled separately from the engine/power plant/weapons, but lore-wise, and engineering-wise, it should--why would you try to dump ~300K lifesystem waste heat into 1000+K power heat radiators?
 
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