You should expand on this. It is interesting, but to me it feels incomplete. For example, the comment about "millions of years of technical evolution" raises so many questions. I am left feeling like I really don't understand what is going on. There is such a neat alternate-science setting here that you hint at in comments like "starve or dissolve" and of course the vibration. Just so much here that seems ripe to flesh out and so many questions left hanging.
Aaah, this is great. Now I want to write more about it. It's hard, though, since I'm not really that knowledgeable about science and space things, but I do have a pretty creative mind to make up for it with alternate theories about how things work. And, anyway, people seem to like them, lol, like the Magical Realism genre.
I did feel like mixing my story with yours and making the million-year-old American space technology clash against some crazy dragon-riding Chinese space warriors.