The last chapter left some disturbing traces, and not just Baltar as trickster walking New York City. Humanity was left seeking a new, non-technological life on Earth with the great Battlestar Galactica condemned to a solar execution, yet the humans-that-are-us descend not from the Adama's and Roslin's pure humans, but rather from union with the Cylons. This replayed the message of Battlestar Galactica, the disintegration of the categories ‘human’ and ‘technology’ in seemingly an animation of Heidegger's account of the demise of Being into technicity. In this, the Frankenstein myth – so central to law's engagement with technology – is imploded. In Chapter 2, through Dune, modern law was shown as technological in its orientation on death and time, and Chapter 3 showed that the category ‘human’ was also compromised – indeed, riddled with technicity. This could reveal the feared grey goo scenario that informs thinking about nanotechnologies. As all categories are compromised by technology, technicity could be seen as absolute – a total technological world, undifferentiated, valueless, and devoid of meaning, hope, and what used to be known and cherished as human life.

But possibly the most profound disturbing trace was the emerging argument that this is not an end, nor is it a situation without hope. Following Haraway, what was suggested, and what Battlestar Galactica showed, was that life remains. It may be a non-essentialist form of life, a life without metaphysical guarantees, but it is still a life that remains within a world that is not grey, but rather a kaleidoscope of networks – relationships, discourses, structures, and bodies – that continually become. It was also argued that this ever-present agency of creation that is technological Being-in-the-world seeks myths to inspire, inform, and guide the making of the world. This leads to another disturbing trace. In Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons had a plan – at least in the first two seasons – and that plan was the extermination of humanity. Responsibility for becoming is an affirmation of activity and the need for mythic input amounts to a precondition. Schmitt found certain myths thathe thought could liberate the polity from liberalism's failure to identify enemies, which became embodied by Nazism, but like the Cylons’ plan, the making of world that accompanied this myth is abhorrent.