[propbeanie]

As Zero Niner says, they are part of FotRSU, thanks to a comment from fitzcarraldo reminding us about them. Not to give away all of our "trade secrets", but the flares are not a direct part of all of the ships, which is dependent upon the author of the ship and the way they did their damage zon file. Also, the flairs don't really reside with the ship, but rather are triggered as part of the zones.cfg file. What we like to think can happen, is a "ship" might fire it off entirely too early (depending upon the compartment hit and the damage inflicted), like they have an OOW that is a nervous nelly, and shoots the flare too soon, and then you have to put another torpedo into the ship anyway, and then other times, you have the old salt that won't give up the ship, so never does fire the flare... You usually won't see them in a warship either...