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As you pull the outer wall panels away, you find to your surprise that there are no inner wall panels - not on the section of wall that you are cutting through, nor in the room that you cutting into, at least as far as you can see at the moment. Craning your neck as best you can in the suit, you check as much of the room as you can from here, but oddly enough there does not seem to be anything in it. Anything at all. You deactivate the manual tinting on your helmet, just to see if you missed anything the first time around, but no - the room is empty. Utterly empty. Unsure if you should be relieved or concerned, you pull yourself into the room through the struts. If anything, these seem to be even tighter than the set that you pulled yourself through by the intake, though you know that is probably just your imagination. Things like the spacing of struts are typically standardized throughout a hull - though there are exceptions. And on that note, this is an exceptional hull.
With your feet back underneath you, you pull your toolbox into the room, then check your suit and your tools over for any signs of damage. Once that is all done, you take a moment to have a more thorough look around the room, to make sure that you haven't missed anything.But it is exactly as it appeared from the outside. A completely empty room, down to the struts. The light fixtures have been pulled completely, and if there were any outlets or sockets in here, then they have been removed as well. Here and there you can see holes where conduit and cables came into the room, either in the ceiling or in the floor - holes that have been diligently sealed tight. Whatever was in the room, it must have been completely infested with conduit worms, and the original owners of the ship stripped it down to deal with it.
Now that you have an explanation, your focus returns to the drone - and just how far you are going to need to detour around it to move safely. This room, like many in this portion of the hull, are a decent size, at least for a ship of the <span class="mu-i">Highest Heaven's</span> displacement. But can you get far enough down the hall in it for you to get past the drone? Or should you try cutting into the next room instead? It is possible that room has been infested, and as it has its wall panels up still, you know that it couldn't have been completely stripped down like this one. You would like to do as little cutting as possible ... at the same time though, what if you cut back out into the hallway here, and the drone descends down on you as you are trying to pull yourself out. You turn around to check the gap in the wall that you left. From this angle, you are not able to see the drone, but you can certainly see the light from its eye.
