yay extinguishing fire (and all ) with rocket missiles yayyyyyyyyyy

fire requires 3 components. oxygen, fuel, and heat. Be it a spark or even friction heat.

" luv it ... ring ring ding ding .. weres the fire

RIP Crew of Apollo 1(i think)

Tell that to the three Apollo astronauts that died in their capsule in a flash fire. I'm sure they took comfort from the fact that they weren't in space.

Whether a fire happens because there's a bottle of O2 feeding it outside a ship, or it happens internally in the guts of a ship/station. It does happen. Quibbling over semantics concerning it's location is just dumb, its still a fire and it's dangerous. The design is an RP design for delivering a fire fighting crew to the location regardless of where it is.

I tend to make large elaborate stations that border on small towns/cities. A lot of buildings to deal with and having an Emergency response unit would be essential for that sort of thing. The people that just build ships will have to find another solution to the problem.

mmm yea but thats the ship, not space it's self.

Tell that to the crew of Apollo 13, or the Soyuz crew who had a very serious fire inside their station. Now if you had said it was impossible to have a fire in the vacumn of space, you'd still be wrong. Fire requires only two components, fuel and... wait for it, oxygen. Wow... oxygen, something we can't live without and have to bring with us when we go into space.

Strangely enough, it was that same oxygen on board Apollo 13 and on the Soyuz station that allowed those fires to happen. Silly people for bringing oxygen into space.

Impossible to have fire in space.

Ahahah why rockets???

i think its for more city/station fires @Enorats

There are so many problems with this idea.. while fire is a dangerous thing in space (mainly due to two reasons - high oxygen concentrations and a lack of gravity), one spacecraft couldn't possibly do anything to help another - as the fire would only burn inside the craft (which is presumably sealed?).

Also, even if you were inside the burning craft, shooting a zero-g fire with a water cannon wouldn't help. The water would simply float around and do nothing to smother the fire. Though, this ship doesn't appear to have any sort of tank to carry water anyway.

The proper response to a zero-g fire is to seal off the section before it spreads and vent the atmosphere. That said, our ships aren't zero-g (as we have gravity generators) so the danger is far more limited. What's more, our ships aren't actually pressurized at all (at least not yet) so there's no danger of fire in the first place.

Oh god not Apollo 13

@llamallaman Don't you remember Apollo 13

Yeah the rockets are about the best item I could find that looked like piping like a water cannon. There aren't a lot of cosmetic items for small ships. If I used a large ship it would have been easier, and far to big.

um yeah, fire response with rockets???

Seriously, with all the oxygen laying around in bottles, fire is a very real danger in a ship/station.

Question, how do things burn when there's no oxygen...?