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After considering it for a bit, you decide that it might not be in your best interest to seal yourself inside of the intake. If you do encounter another monster conduit worm - God forbid - you have to remember that as a rule, the tighter the spaces the more aggressive they are. Despite its size, the one you fought in the cargo bay was out of its element in the wide open space. In the confines of the intake - well, you really don't want to think about it too much. Making a point of keeping the torch ignited at at the ready, you slip your way into the intake. Between the lights on your suit and the wisps floating around, your surroundings are absolutely flooded in light. That is more than a little fortifying, though all you can really see at the moment is surface rust and debris kicked up by you cutting through the cap. Still, for a good moment there, you are feeling much better about this admittedly crazy plan of yours - at least until you are in up to your waist, and it settles in just how tight and slow it is going to be moving through this thing. And one thing you didn't think of was your field of vision. As nice as these new-model suits are, they don't have complete freedom of movement - they don't have anywhere near it. While you can swivel your head back and forth, you cannot do much up and down - and considering that you are moving head first up this pipe, you are actually having a very hard time seeing ahead of you, and a large part of your field of vision is taken up by the wrecking torch you got at the ready.
Still, you feel like you are managing, at least until you go and bump into an unseen obstacle. You can feel it give a bit on impact. To actually get your eyes on to it, you have to backtrack far enough so you can angle your torso just right to get your look. The obstruction is a mesh grate. Its presence here confuses you for a moment, but then you realize that it is probably here to keep debris and living organism out of the desalinator 'upstream'. With further inspection, you can see what looks to be a cleaning/clearing mechanism integrated into it. You don't see any conduit or wiring for it, but it looks like the grate is mounted at the juncture of two pieces of pipe. It is possible that instead of just joining the pipes together, they were joined with some sort of spacer in between them, which the grate is anchored to and powered through. You take a good long look at the unit. While it has certainly seen better days, it looks as if it is still in working order. and the clearing/cleaning mechanism qualifies under the blanket of 'electronics'. With all four of the sub-units and the grate together, it represents a decent find - but considering the cramped quarters, and that it is built to survive and operate in flowing water ... high pressure flowing water, if you remember how desalinators work correctly getting it all out in one piece is going to take some doing. Of course, you don't have to remove it in one nice piece.
