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I like the idea of locals using them as buildings and shelters if for some reason they cannot be reclaimed.

In my old town there was a museum with a Lancaster Bomber glass dome that had a sign reading "kindly donated by a man found using it as a greenhouse."

Yeah, I can totally see lost/unrecoverable relics like that being put to use by the population of worlds, long after the war that caused the relic to be there in the first place has ended.

In my DH game, there's a community on the wasteland planet it is set on that lives in the crashed ruin of a cruiser. The ship will never fly again, and the creatures that lived in its hold haven't gone away, so some parts of "town" are *really* dangerous. No one is sure who owned the ship (Chaos or Imperium) during the war, now a thousand years past, that created its wreckage, and since it's from another part of the Imperium, no one can read the Gothic written on the walls.

There's a BOLO story about something similar called A Relic of War that appears in The Compleat Bolo.