Why was my ship on fire?

I recommend the Harvest Moon franchise. All of them. On every system ever made by Nintendo.

^ You guys are getting me in the mood to watch Fringe

Explanation "Galaxy FAR, FAR away".

'nuff said.

For the traveling part it's actually very theoretically possible to travel faster than the speed of light. The theory being that you bend space around you so that while you are not breaking the speed of light, you are getting to your destination faster than it would take at lightspeed.

Harvest Moon is legitimately a great game actually. Would recommend if that kind of game is your thing.

Because distance affects combustibility.

C=d*t/l
C = Combustibility in space
d = distance
t = time
l = gamer logic

Now it all makes sense.

Yup, the engine was originally designed so that when your horse took damage it would catch fire. That's why your ship catches fire when it takes damage. Simple as that.

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