- Traxus 04
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Just a thought based on something in Cryptum. Minor spoiler, no biggie.
"How?" I asked. "How do you destroy Precursor artifacts? They're inviolate, eternal."
Yet Charum Hakkor, a former Precursor hub-world, has been reduced to rubble/slag, sometime in the 9000 years before the beginning of Cryptum. How could this happen? Well, we know that Mendicant Bias test-fired one of the Halos in that system (and also, apparently, released 'the prisoner'). My guess is that it was the Halo that damaged the ruins. The Halo, as we know, only destroys intelligent life (due to 'neural physics').
Therefore I conclude that any Precursor artifacts/ruins are made out of living, intelligent material. That would also explain their erstwhile indestructability (life can adapt to resist decay and trauma, and constantly regenerate).
One last note: look up Precursor in the dictionary and you'll note that while it has the obvious meaning of 'something that predates something else,' there's also a specific meaning in biochemistry which is 'a material that assists in the transformation of one material to another.' Reminds me about their supposed ability to speed up evolution. But also suggests the Precursors could take any form they wanted, or something along those lines.