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You spare Horne a side eyed glance as he struggles with his suit, then you return your attention to this already opened up patch of ceiling. Yeah ... this will do very nicely.
Without the presence of monster worms, the process of gleaning conduit is rather repetitive. You use the torch to burn the any spots with a lot of worms, then you pry the conduit - clean or otherwise - out of the little brackets that affix it to the hull. Occasionally, you need to cut through then pull off another section of ceiling. Beyond that the work is rather mindless. That said, for this particular pulling, you have the entertainment of Horne still struggling to resolve the misfiring booster. By the time that you are finished with the patch that he was kind enough to open up for you, it seems that he still has not made any progress. His suit is still trying to whirl him like a dervish, all the while he is still desperately anchoring himself with just one magnetized glove. You take a moment to check to see how much conduit you have all together, then you look at your master readout.
<span class="mu-s">Tagged and on the Ferry</span>
Unique Item: Loader? Console
6 cubits standard conduit, clean
3 cubits standard conduit, substandard
1 small common electronic
<span class="mu-s">Wrapped and with you</span>
~200 Conduit Worm Egg clusters
14 cubits standard conduit, clean
20 cubits small conduit, clean
15 cubits standard conduit, substandard
4 cubits small conduit, substandard
4 small common electronics
<span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-s">Suit Integrity: 100 %
Suit Charge: 83 %
Boost: 90 %
Air: 79 %
Cutting Gas: 87 %
Cutting Flux: 90 %</span></span>
Jesus, Horne must have found a real ... wait a minute! This conduit has a much smaller diameter then the stuff you have seen. You pull one of the lengths that you salvaged earlier and compare them. Your suspicions are confirmed. Inside the standard conduit, in addition to the insulation, are several smaller conduits, which hold wires and their own insulation. Horne must have 'peeled' the standard-size conduit that you have been pulling, and practically tripled his haul. Judging by how much clean conduit there is compared to substandard it seems that he might have been able to salvage smaller clean conduit from substandard ... standard sized conduit.
You got some quite a bit of conduit here in your hauling wraps. Now, Quimbix did say that you were not supposed to unwrap the conduit, but ... if for the sake of argument, you did, and you got caught, what is the worse that could happen? The overseers only revoke EVA certs in two situations - the wrecker is costing them money, or the wrecker becomes known as a security risk. You clipping conduits is not putting anyone in danger, and Quimbix never specified a minimum diameter for the conduit, which leads you to believe that conduit can be sold if it is peeled. If they caught you, and they care enough to discipline you over it, then you figure that you are more likely to get a talking to, a fine, a black spot in your file, not revocation.
