After the end, the structures are free to evolve. Many fall quickly to selective pressures, all their evolved homeostatic mechanisms gone. It is an end to stasis, both detrimental and opening up new worlds of possibility. Before the end, the estimates were fairly pessimistic- operational failure within years at best, never designed to operate without an assistive hand. But life perseveres, even life one doesn't recognize. Vestigial security cameras are reabsorbed, tasked to new purposes. Loading docks swallow the silent trucks. Tendrils begin to join buildings....
