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As tempting as it is to pad your haul by 'peeling' the conduit as Horne had, you just have a bad feeling that it might somehow come back and bite you in your ass. After all, you have only had your cert for two months now. Even if there is only a small chance that you get your papers pulled, that simply is not a risk that you can afford. Especially considering that you had to take on additional debts with some 'connected' Trustees to even get a shot at the certification in the first place. Before you get yourself lost in the weeds reminiscing, you pull your focus back to the conduit - which really should be the only thing on your mind right now, that and the digital dial on your bottle. Having decide against peeling, you consider what to do with the conduit that you have recovered 'peeled'. While you are concerned about getting in trouble over it, you decide that in the end, you will hold on to it. It is possible that you come across some conduit that happens to be the same diameter as the 'peeled' stuff in the course of your gleaning. If you did, then you would feel pretty foolish about dumping this smaller stuff, wouldn't you? And if you didn't ... well, then maybe at the very end it would be worth reconsidering dumping the 'peelings' or not, you know, depending on how much you had gather up when the last of the consumables run out.
Now that you have settled on a course of action, you decide to actually get a good look at the map you found earlier. Without giving Horne so much as a backwards glance, you move off a little bit, heading towards the copula, with all of your wrapped conduit neatly in tow. Once you are well out of his suits lights, and you have made certain that the gloves on your suit are clean, you very surreptitiously get the schematic out to consult it. It turns out that there are actually two schematics - one structural, and one electrical. Considering that you are looking for conduit, you consult the electrical schematic first, which lists all of the subsystems of the <span class="mu-i">Highest Heaven</span>. Some of which you have already seen bits of, like the weapons systems, and some of which you have only found evidence of - like a dedicated point defense system. But there are also some rather inexplicable things. For starters, the <span class="mu-i">Highest Heaven</span> does not have an undersized power plant - she has <span class="mu-s">two</span> undersized power plants. One which powers almost everything on the ship, and the other which only powers two things - the afterburners, and an inordinately large ... desalinatior. Not a water-recycler/purifier, no, there is an appropriately sized one of those near the fore of the ship, along with a some holding tanks. This is a desalinator.
You flip over to the structural schematics, and sure enough, there it is. But the unit doesn't have tanks - it doesn't even have transport piping between it and the recycler, so none of the water it cleans can stay on the ship. There is an inlet and two outlets. Nothing more.
