Badlands 2025 explored the systems of technology used for malignant purposes through themes of crime, privacy intrusion and eudaemonia. We now observe dynamic and dispersed global information circuits carrying increasingly complex human/machine data and informatic diseases. Data varieties have accelerated and proliferated, creating new mutations for systemic absorption. The phenomenon of truth variety is multifacetedly outpacing regulatory institutions and systems of law. The AI megatrend amplifies such entropy. The game of drones has unsettled the game of thrones. Space, our ultimate recursion, emerges. Let’s play! Security Cybernetics: threats may be requisitely absorbed through efficacious, dynamic strategy.