This is why Star Trek has entire novels featuring Engineers fixing things?
Good questions.
Up there with why fuse technology is lost in the 23 century. Or why they simply just send mr Data and bunch of holograms on deep space exploration so they don’t have to “reroute power from life-support” all the time. :p
But clearly if the there is one technology that mustn’t be lost it's replication. Hence the engineers. Also all that really is left for humans to do is pushing back the frontiers of science or art, the mundane problems isn’t something that is an issue for these people.
Sorry but you've just described EXACTLY what I want. A New Krypton where they are living off the tech of their forebearers.
No reason to be sorry.
And Kryptonians living on the tech of their ancestors is very much a feature in Byrne’s dystopian vision of Krypton. (The eradicator is an ancient device for example).
