How do you square things like the Ahamkara, the Worms and the Nine existing and manipulating things as they do besides calling it paracausal space magic? Non-technologically based space magic exists in the game. The Hive, the Dreadnaught alone is older than the Earth. And they were conquering for some time before he made it. And quite a lot happened just between the Witness leaving it’s home planet and encountering the Hive. So the total time between now and Hive origin is at least 4.5+ billion years. As the duration of the Hive conquest up until that point wasn’t likely more than a few centuries at most. Then you need to add in the Worm Gods, who were ancient upon Hive finding them. They would of had to of been made if magic is tech based, creations of that first civilization. Meaning the makers of the Traveler would of had to of been from the very first civilizations to rise from the first galaxies. And in all that time since, which is more time than they had, no one else made the leap from tech to magic. We see the limits of tech alone in the game in the Vex. The Vex can manipulate the normal laws of reality to such a point as to do feats that paracausality has trouble with. The Witness could only manipulate Mars in a domain of its own making but the Vex can do it easily. They can terraform worlds in days. The Hive need massive amounts of energy to transport troops across vast distances, the Vex do it regularly. They can make a special hidden domain where they can make their own type of magic but can’t do it in the material world. Their best attempt was the Endless Night, engineered and empowered by the paracausal entires Quria and Savathun manipulating Vex capability, paracausality using technology. That last one shows the limits of pure technology and the delineation of paracausal magic and technology. That’s why Clarkes quote doesn’t work. While there is technology that seems magical, there is still actual space magic in Destiny. That Paracausal power can be harnessed by technology doesn’t mean it has to be technologically based. It just means it’s meant to be harnessed and utilized. And rather conveniently based in such a way that the Vex can’t utilize it against us. This giving validity to the basis of the origin story for paracausality, as it was meant to be used against the Vex. But I’d like to hear your side, I cooked up an idea for how to make paracausality out of technology years ago but as newer stuff came out it became an impossibility.