If you turn it into a negative image, then tidy it up a little, you get this:
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Certainly looks like the glitched image we received, which I believe was showing a few varieties even. The one in the hologram video looks like the one at the top left in that glitched image. It also looks like it has an opening/door on the side that appears to go all the way through to the other side. Could be because of showing a model though.
I personally doubt this is a submarine due to its scale. If those are turrets, then this ship is quite large, although likely not as large as a freighter. I just can not imagine this going underwater, as that would pretty much restrict it to ocean planets only. I also tend to agree that landing our ship on it would be impossible, certainly not inside, but even outside on a pad seems unlikely.
Now if I imagine we can not land on it, then how do we get on it? Only way would be to teleport, some sort of docking aside, or … being able to land it on a planet 
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Looks like a jet-ski or sea-doo type vehicle. Scalloped out bit looks like a seat…and we are apparently getting some form of player models…possibly.
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We really don’t know the scale…as for turrets…the lasers and weapons we can mount on our exocraft now are also practically mounted turrets so I don’t think they necessarily define scale.
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You could be right, it just appears to be quite large in my opinion, but scale is indeed hard to be sure about
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My Impression because of how the bottom is shaped is that this thing doesn’t appear designed to land but then that is also true of some of the exotic ships we have when looking at them in space. The 4 exterior docking pad theory doesn’t make sense to me because our freighters are guaranteed to always be able to hold 4 players…if these things are just cheap mini-freighters for early game just so people can warp together if nobody owns a proper freighter I’d be disappointed. I am really hoping these things are either subs to explore oceans with or larger player ships designed to carry exocraft.
I’d be guessing it’s an exocraft. One earlier image depicts it with skis or landing struts that are far to large for a freighter type ship suggesting to me a smaller scale. (I’m still hoping for a freighter overhaul though).
Lore hints at underwater story content and as I mentioned earlier the shape does suggest a seat position mid-way like a jet ski. Maybe it turns submersible the same way other exocrafts jump?
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I doubt we’re going to be sitting on it because our legs would block the back fins and because the turrets are there so I’m guessing we’ll be inside it but I very much hope it is a submersible sub.
Kneeling type position…?
Half in, half out like a one man sub sounds cool too.
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It’s the one at the top… I’m sticking with submarine exocrafts and no damned multi-crew at that… for obvious technical reasons.
The best clue at scale, to me… would be the circular “almost surely hatches” inside the hexagon at both sides… I would take those as the approximate size for a human to go through. That would put it on the “five-buses-long” scale-range.
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I don’t think it’s a submarine for one reason, there’s no plutonium underwater. Both our ships and exocraft use plutonium as fuel, which you would have to collect in huge quantities before taking off in your sub. Unless they changed to a new fuel type just for this vehicle (something like iron or rigogen), or added underwater plutonium.
I find the turret setup to be unusual. It makes little sense to have a turret on the top and bottom, and so far to the rear, of a ship. We don’t currently have a way to aim in a different direction than we travel, so the setup just seems odd. It would be much more effective to put them on the sides or the front of the craft.
I think it’s going to be a MP ship. One person driving, two people on turrets. Not sure where the 4th guy would go yet, but there could be some other weapon we can’t make out. The turrets remind me of the “ball turrets” they used to put on bomber airplanes. They were independent and individually manned.
The big opening at the front facing down on the bottom one sticks out…it kind of looks like a large glass opening to see in front and bellow…would be useful for something that was designed to go underwater.
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Fuel is a non-issue…there’s nothing dictating that fuel has to be plutonium…they can make fuel be whatever…they could make it be carbon or carbon and iron products…or something else.
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If the turrets are freighter-turret sized, the ship is a lot smaller than a freighter, but still very substantial (A good bit bigger than a SW correllian corvette I’d say, to take a well-known craft as comparison).
If that’s the case, there’s about a hundred places on there where you comfortably moor one or more of the current boats on the hull.
In that case I would guess they are more fleshed out versions of the vessels currently accompanying freighters, possibly as escorts, and pretty certainly flyable (not much point in putting them so prominently in the ARG if they aren’t).
They might be a good deal smaller though, kind of in the size-range of mid-tier elite vessels, in whcih case they would probably be landable and capable of deploying an exocraft. It’s going to be one of these two things I’d say, with me personally hoping for the later, but finding the former more probable.
Are they multi-crew or not? No way to tell, but I tend to think (and hope) that they’re not. Reason for this being, it is nigh-impossible to come up with game mechanics that make for engaging co-op starship operation while not rendering singleplayer control extremely tedious. It would be quite a feat if they would manage to make it work, though.
Yeah, I remember when pulse fuel was thamium in 1.0, and then suddenly became iron in foundation. I was like “wtf, iron makes the least sense of anything, but whatever…”
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Yeah…a fairly large landable behemoth could be fun…the question is how compatible would that be with our freighter though? The freighters are due an overhaul though as some of the ships now available don’t fit on them…but would HG go all crazy and make room for something like that on freighters too? I’m not opposed to it as long as they can be fully functional in single player.
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Finally made a video with my No Man’s Sky/Waking Titan Theory of Everything.
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I think the mid sized freighter idea is the most likely and armed escort for larger vessels makes a lot of sense. More likely than yet another an exocraft although I’m not 100% convinced. I really hope its a big ship.
Definitely don’t think a multicrew is likely, given the game’s mechanics but I also wouldn’t be surprised if a new midsize ship was an integral part of multiplayer or introduced as part of missions, where some sort of co-op player or NPC was required.
Never did understand why our ships suddenly began to use iron as pulse fuel. Odd. Thamium made way more sense.
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You know what? I think that you would enter via “beam me up scotty”. That would make perfect sence. Perhaps also by docking with your freighter too. Regardless, considering there is boosters in the back with visible propulsion that looks like the propulsion “fire” from the freighters, its highly unlikely a dedicated submarine. While the turrets could not be confirmed in their size, if they were exocraft sized then the ship would be nealry the same size as a person and that would not make sence as there doesn’t seem to be a way to get inside it. This can help you draw the reasonable conclusion that they are likely larger like the freighters or perhaps half the size.
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The “jet” propulsors took me off the path of sub for a moment, then got to the conclusion that cruising through a fluid like water, would be nothing to any ship capable of flying into all the different atmospheres, elemental hazards and temperatures like the ones we have… which also works against the idea of needing submarines at all! Were not that they have decided already water is just “too-much” for our black-hole-traversing-able vehicles…
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Well an exocraft can vary in size as we have already seen…this can definitely be sized similar to the colossus…that would make the turret sizes about spot on for the size. And it’s unclear what sort of “flame”(if any) that ship emits…it doesn’t necessarily have to be heat based.