Will there be a sump for heat as part of the Heat Pipe System? That is, a way to temporarily store a certain amount of heat to prevent increasing your signature if you're trying to be stealthy? Second, if your sump fills, and you don't want to radiate the energy, will the temperature inside your ship rise, and how will that affect your avatar and the rest of your crew?asked by Krel
TL;DRA heat sump isn't promised outright, but the idea is a way to temporarily keep heat for a quick infrared reduction at the cost of wear and component failure, so it likely wouldn't be used constantly.
Again, I went to Calix on this. When you're dealing with fusion powerplants, or thermo-nuclear weapons, you're talking about thousands of Kelvin, or thousands of degrees C or F. That's not something you're going to want to shunt inside the cabin. You'd Ace-Ventura Rhino yourself instantly. Talking to Calix, he wanted a system where you can temporarily keep heat, but that's going to put wear and tear on the ship. Components will likely heat up and fail more quickly etc, so it's not something that's likely to be used all the time. It'll temporarily give you a quick IR reduction.
It's a cool idea if say you come out of a Jump Point in your Vanguard, do your stealth attack run, then dump whatever that thing is. It's also one of those things we've always talked about, having something to store thermal energy on the ship, it'd just be another thing to have plugged into a hardpoint on the ship. laughs I keep getting back to the thought of finishing a long battle in your constellation and makes prying rhino-butt motion getting out of the ship slowly.
Or also Star Trek First Contact, where Data releases the plasma coolant, and the borg get fried...