In "War Dogs", on of the last things he wrote, Greg Bear has the space marines who are fighting off the alien forces cobble shit together from equipment left behind by the "Muskies", a group of billionaires that came to Mars with all their shit and then died within a couple decades leaving warehouses of equipment laying about because money just can't do all the lifting in an environment like that.
No Kessler syndrome mentioned :p
derptron
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