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The Turning left roads blocked by wrecked vehicles, buildings full of damaged equipment and inactive servos scattered through ordinary places. Some structures remained usable. Others were unsafe or had lost essential services. Survivors moved through that wreckage looking for shelter and supplies, often without knowing whether a damaged robot was permanently disabled.
The remains of the Old World were not uniformly burned out. A ruined street could contain an intact shop, and a standing building could hide a collapsed floor or flooded service room. Useful material and dangerous equipment often occupied the same space.
People began recovering what they needed long before organized salvage businesses existed. Later, Lancers turned knowledge of those places into a living. A silent servo still requires attention because inactivity does not prove that its stored instructions are gone. The same uncertainty makes recovering powered equipment more complicated than loading an abandoned object onto a truck.
