Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade View Post
She was not in the engine room. She was checking the oxygen tanks. Fuel room, not engine room. The engine room and combustion chamber are probably lower down in the rocket, in an area inaccessible to us in the game. Heat would have taken some time to reach that high, and would only have been a danger during the continual firing associated with liftoff, where the heat would build up in unprotected areas that weren't meant to house the crew during engine firing.
This explains it.

But why is Cid ting his pants about it then? Am I wrong..or does he get all "oh nooooooo get outta there you goddamn waste of woman!" ?

Guess there wasn't a handy EoFF person to cool his guns.