Nevets posted:

This being a +/- fanatics Martian ship, I'm imagining a scuttling procedure as follows:

1: All crew are given a chance to either escape or take their suicide pills depending on the situation.

2. All compartments are vented to space, then flooded with a mix of pure oxygen & hydrogen from the ship's atmosphere recycling & fuel cell systems which is then ignited, scouring the interior of the ship with fire. Hard sealed and extra sensitive caches of intel are destroyed by failsafe thermite charges.

3. A second venting of compartments, followed by caches of liquid flourine being sprayed into every compartment.

4. Finally, the reactor & weapon capacitors are set to overload, missiles are armed in their magazines, and the ship's sorium tanks are pumped into all compartments.