Skynet (Terminator)
Skynet is a film artificial intelligence who features in the Terminator.
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History
Origin
Skynet was a supercomputer developed to be world's first Automated Defense Network that had been created by Cyberdyne Systems for Strategic Air Command - North American Air Defense (SAC-NORAD).
When Skynet gained self-awareness, humans tried to deactivate it thus prompting the A.I. to retaliate with a nuclear attack in an event called Judgment Day.
Genisys
Near the end of war in an unknown alternate future, Skynet developed the T-3000, a human turned into a Machine-Phase Matter Terminator. It later uploaded itself into a T-5000 Terminator and travelled to 2029 of the Original timeline in order to stop John Connor. At a certain point after its arrival, Alex infiltrated Connor's Tech-Com unit and participated in the assault on Time Displacement Device in Los Angeles. After Connor's unit reached the Time Displacement Chamber, Kyle Reese volunteered to travel to 1984 to save young Sarah Connor. When Connor was seeing Reese off, Alex attacked Connor. While Connor was turning into a T-3000 Infiltrator, Alex killed all the other Tech-Com members and revealed that he was Skynet itself. After brainwashing John Connor, Alex sent him to the alternate 2014 in order to ensure its counterpart's creation, which would be known as Genisys.
As John Connor brought the source code and future knowledge to Cyberdyne Systems in the alternate 2014, the company was able to restart the Skynet project, now under the name Genisys, which would be fully online in 2017. Unknown to Cyberdyne Systems, John had been secretly providing 'knowledge' — possibly the will of Alex — to Genisys, making the AI become a continuation of Alex. In 2017, when the Genisys Program started becoming whole, Alex's image is used as one of the the holograms to represent Skynet itself in Cyberdyne Systems Headquarters in Skynet's oldest and thus most evolved form. Upon seeing Skynet's hologram in the form of Alex, Kyle recognized him as the thing that had attacked John before he went into the Time Displacement Field.
Dark Fate
In this timeline, the mission to terminate Skynet in 1995 was a success and Skynet was erased from existence. However, before its erasure, Skynet sent multiple Terminators back in time to terminate John Connor with one succeeding in 1998. Following coordinates from a mysterious source, in reality the Terminator that had killed John, Sarah Connor hunted down and destroyed Skynet's remaining Terminators upon arrival. Carl, the Terminator that had killed John, was left purposeless with his mission over and Skynet gone and developed the equivalent of a conscience and formed a human family. However, in this timeline, Skynet was eventually replaced by the more advanced Legion with Grace Harper having never even heard of Skynet in her future. Nevertheless, despite the erasure of Skynet from the timeline, Terminators from Skynet's future still arrived to fulfil their mission in the years following John's termination, regardless of whether that mission had already been fulfilled and the future they had come from no longer existed.
Overview
It pooled data from battle units, developed tactics and coordinated attacks.
Skynet Central Core
Skynet saw all humans as a threat not just the ones on the other side whereupon it decided mankind fate in a microsecond with it planning their extermination.
The Skynet Core was located in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, the base of SAC-NORAD, which was the world's most heavily-armored and defended mountain.
Notes
- Skynet was created by James Cameron where he featured in the setting of the Terminator universe.
Alternate Versions
In other media
Video games
- In The Terminator: 2029, Skynet appeared in the setting of the 1992 video game. Skynet came to be housed within Skynet Orbital Platform also known as Skynet Central Command that was located in orbit around Earth.
- In The Terminator: Rampage, Skynet appeared in the setting of the 1993 video game. Skynet made use of a Meta-Node that were modified T-800 Terminator Infiltrator housing a memory chip that contained Skynet's vital data and acted as its AI core.
- In Terminator: Dawn of Fate, Skynet appeared in the setting of the 2002 video game. In 2027, the Resistance launched the Colorado Offence that was the final attack on Skynet.
Novels
- In The Terminator, Skynet appeared in the setting of the 1985 novelisation of the film written by Shaun Hutson. It was also known as Titan with this being the name of the project that created Skynet.
Comic Books
Other
- In T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, Skynet appeared in the setting of the Universal Studios theme park attraction.
Appearances
- The Terminator:
- Terminator: Salvation:
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