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The way you see it, there are two ways to handle this. Cut through the walls of the hall and the rooms around them to bypass the blast door- and hope that the struts here are spaced further apart then they were by the intake to the desalinator - or find an alternate route through the hulk using the schematic. Which of these options is the best depends on which side of the door is the sealed off portion. If you are on the side that was sealed off by the ship's engineers in a failed attempt to contain the infestation, then whatever danger there is here, you have already passed it by, so there is no reason to worry about continuing on your intended path. Alternatively, it it is the other side of the door that was intended to be quarantined, then it is possible that there are things beyond the door that even still are dangerous, in which case, it makes the most sense to find an alternate route.
Of course, the issue is that you have no way of knowing for sure which side is which, so you cannot say for a certainty which decision is the right call to make. It would stand to reason that conduit worms would get bigger the closer you were to get to the power plant - which would point towards the other side of the door being the quarantined section ... except that this power plant only fed the afterburners, which weren't anywhere near here, and the desalinator, which was in the same bulkhead. Beyond that, there were no other connections - it was a completely isolated system. And regardless of proximity to the power plants, you have seen how conduit worms as far away as the aft cargo bay can grow to preposterous sizes.
Perhaps it would be worth investigating a bit, trying to look around to see if there are any clues as to which side was which? It would be a delay, to be sure, but if things are bad enough to seal blast doors, then maybe you should be proceeding with more caution here.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> Bypass the sealed blast door by cutting through the walls ( - 1 % Suit Charge, - 1 % Air, - 1 % Cutting Gas. Moving through the tight spaces between the the struts carries a 1 in 50 chance of losing Suit Integrity)
> Bypass the sealed blast door by charting another route through the hulk. ( - ? % Suit Charge, - ? % Air)
> Take the time to investigate your surroundings, looking for clues as to which side is which. (Suit Charge - 3 %, Air - 4 %)
