"I suspect because you frequently implied that it was identical to the one in his rectum?" she adds, with a laugh and a grin.<br/><br/>The tubes are the only obvious pieces in the room, though they can see a number of pipes, connecting to the tanks, and leading off to other rooms. There's a panel on the front of each, festooned with buttons and dials, but the labels are incomprehensible acronyms, in an ancient language, or, unhelpfully, merely numbers. It would be possible to remove the tube, but it would require either disconnecting it from the tubes, or removing an unknown, but likely very large, chunk of the fortress.