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After considering it a little bit, you decide to just cut through the panels, and leave the struts alone for now. Getting your torch into position is awkward, considering that you have to reach through the hole that you just cut in the intake, and then cut blindly for a bit. Eventually though, your torch passes into your field of vision, and you are rewarded with the immensely satisfying sight of the panel being rent to shattering ribbons by your torch. By the time that you withdraw your torch, you can see that you have cut your way into a small room instead of a hallway ... which is not what you were expecting from your reading of the schematic. With all your shifting and squirming in the intake, you must have accidentally turned yourself around a little bit.
That is ... pretty alarming, honestly, but so long as you have the intake for reference, you should be able to bounce back and figure out where you are. It takes you a moment, but after consulting the schematic again, you are absolutely certain that you know where you are - three decks underneath the bulkhead you are trying to get into. You get a handful of your wisps into the room, and you can see that the place appears to be outfitted as quarters for crew. In fact ... beyond the trash floating around the room, it looks like there are a few odds and ends - basic tools, things like that - that have been left behind in here. More than that, you can see what appears to be lockers, stuffed under the shelf-beds. That is certainly interesting, but you really don't know if you have the time for messing around with them - especially considering that even if you find something of value in them, you are not liable to get paid well for whatever it is.
At this moment, you are more interested in getting into the bulkhead, and to that end, you have an idea. From your vantage point here, you can see very little in this room towards electricals. There is a light on the ceiling, and there is an outlet by the door. And that is it - the door is even manually opened, it doesn't have a panel. From this, you can deduce that there is not too much conduit running through the walls, ceiling and floor of this room, which is supported by the fact that the portion of wall that you have cut through does not have any electricals, any conduit, anything at all in it. It is just struts and brackets to keep the intake in a fixed position. So the odds are that there are not conduit worms in this room either.
Now, what if, instead of going through the door and mucking about hallways in who knows what condition, you were to cut your way into the bulkhead? Getting there the first time might take longer than simply finding your way there through the hulk by going out the door, and that could be a break against you, if it turned out that there was nothing in the bulkhead worth your time after all, or there were too many conduit worms in there, or something.
