PLANETARY TECHNOLOGY

The damned have a techno magic called Kludgery, or kludging. If they believe it will work, the atmospheric nanites will make it possible. It works similar to vitalis, in that it's NOT elantic forcing of something to happen, it's ritualized requesting of things to happen. This is how they can keep thousands of years old suits of power armor functioning, and repair them after heavy battle damage. It's how they can construct and repair cables and batteries if they're damaged.

They can't CREATE these things. That's the one thing they cannot do is create new technology. Kludging is their chief technology and it only works to glue things together. They are inacapable of figuring out how to do things from scratch, and more often than not they cannot get the technology they acquire back to its full function.

So for example, heavenly weaponry like laser rifles cannot be restored to its function as a laser weapon. They can get it attached to a galvant and use electro magnetic energy to make it fire bolts as a rail gun.

They can get Chobham armor up and running, but only by covering it in mud bricks that blast out to stop hits. They can't get Dycortiq back to its old state of flying around the battlefield firing lasers at people. It's just a big armor suit that shoots cannon balls.