Photon Conducting Plaster

PCP
Photon Conducting Plaster is an intelligent nanobot coating on the exterior hull of a ship capable of sending and receiving any light that hits the vessel. tPCP, or Transmitter PCP, is painted on the hull, and rPCP, or Receiver PCP, is panted onto on the inner hull.

This allows for "Simulated Light Field Windows" inside the ship to display a real-time image of the outside environment as seen reflecting off the hull without the need to create weak points in the ship's armour or use delicate cameras that might be destroyed or hijacked by hackers.

PCP is always on and comes standard on all new modules. When a module takes damage the tPCP slowly extrudes through capillaries on the hull and restores the picture within a few seconds.