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Conduit. More than anything else, you need conduit right now. To that end, you punt yourself over to the where you had been cutting through the dropped ceiling panels, and pick up right where you left off, starting to work towards where you - and anyone else - would assume the power plant is located. Remembering all of the worms you ran into and the mess you ended up making dealing with them, you get the wrap you used to clear away the viscera ready in your off hand as you ignite your wrecking torch.
But when you actually start cutting into the panels, you are not most certainly not prepared for the next panel over to smash open and a conduit worm as thick as your fucking <span class="mu-i">thigh</span> to start flailing around trying to get you while it unravels itself. You punt yourself away from the ceiling, and even as you get clear from the main body of the worm, you can see its feathery feelers billowing out of the small cut you made. Soon, more pseudo-appendages, thick as your own, start to burst through other ceiling panels. Some of these arms have hooks and teeth, some have bio-capacitors, some have mouths and distended stomachs, and some have eyes - which concerningly enough all seem to be staring straight at you.
This ... if there are monsters like this on the fucking ceiling lights, maybe you don't want to go closer to the power plant after all. But right now, you have to figure out what you are going to do about this. Even though you are certain that you could kill it with your torch, this writhing bastard here has demonstrated that it is strong enough to just burst straight through what looks like plate steel. If it was able to get one of those pseudo-appendages on you, it could easily break your suit. And even if you are able to kill it without getting caught, it is still anchored to the panels that it popped off - and those things flailing around everywhere could send an absolute shit-storm of debris everywhere. You could get hurt by that too.
By the time that you have hit the floor of the cargo bay, the worm has fully unraveled, and started to put out it feelers in earnest. By the time that you have gotten back on your feet, the feelers have spread to what looks to be their fullest extension. You would hazard that a full 25 to 30 square cubits of ceiling have just been cordoned off. As you watch, you see some debris from one of the panels hit another nearby panel - and the worm immediately responds by prying it off. But all the time, its horned eyes are pointed directly at you. You are not sure if the worm senses your electronics and is straining its eyes to see you, or if it can see you just fine, but you seriously doubt that you are going to be able to trick it by just throwing things at panels. It doesn't seem to want to detach from its comfortable perch in the ceiling and come after you ...but, at the moment you are giving it a wide berth.
