MAIN DATA CACHE
"There was a
war.A few years
from now.Nuclear
war.The
whole thing. All this … everything ... is gone.Just gone. There were survivors.
Here.There.Nobody knew who started it. It was the
Machines … Defense network computer.
New. Powerful. Hooked into
everything.
Trusted to run it all.They say It got smart ... a new order of
intelligence. Then
It saw all
people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side.
Decided our fate in a
microsecond ... extermination."
– Kyle Reese
T800 by Benjamin Carre
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INTEL REPORT
The latest data pulse
was transmitted on March 19, 2022 A.D.
TIMELINE
A chronology of the events that occurred
during the War
SKYNET
The history of the world's
first true military grade, neural net based artificial intelligence
and what went wrong.
FACIDS
(Fah-sids)-
Fully Automated
Counter Intrusion
Defense
System- the main external defense grid of SKYNET could protect the installation
from ground, air and aerospace attack.
HELICIS
(Heli-sis) High
Efficiency
Low Impact
Counter-Intrusion
Systems- the main
internal defense array of SKYNET and the various machine controlled installations.
EXPERIENTIAL DATA CACHE
SKYNET's gray projects and speculative
research into high energy applications as well as theoretical
quantum physics.
TECHNOLOGY LEVELS
A review of the various
technology levels that SKYNET attained during its three decade long
campaign to exterminate humanity.
HARDWARE and SOFTWARE
From sensors and scanners to
the programs and codeware that integrated the various advanced systems into the many different constructs.
SKYNET
TACTICS
Details of the pacification
campaigns as well as other operations, protocols and mission
parameters.
THE MACHINES
Advanced technology of the 21st
century, an overview of SKYNET's designs as well as the progression
and evolution of killing technology produced throughout the War.
Includes extensive information and specifications.
UNIT DESIGNATIONS
An overview of SKYNET's standardized
naming and production conventions.
FORCED LABOR CAMPS
An overview of SKYNET's slave
labor camps.
AUTOMATED FACTORIES and OTHER
INSTALLATIONS
Massive resource operations
were required to meet SKYNET's production quota as well as to supply
its research and development programs. The fully automated manufactories and
mega-facs of 2029 A.D. are cold, sterile and immense in their design.
EQUIPMENT
An overview of the state of
the art development of battlefield grade personal, support, heavy
and crew served weapons and equipment, including field intelligence on Resistance
vehicles and equipment.
FICTION
A collection of
stories, vignettes and other fiction.
SLANG
Collected slang
and terminology from the War.
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- OTHER
MISCELLANEOUS ENTRIES -
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MISCELLANEOUS
DATA
FAQ,
questions, and other miscellaneous material about the The War
and the Years of
Darkness.
MUSINGS
Impromptu ideas and informal
discussion of the various aspects of James Cameron's dark vision of
the future of mankind.
AUTHOR'S
NOTES
The how and why this site
came about and where it is headed.
IDEA
/ MACHINE SUBMISSION TEMPLATE
Here's your chance to put your idea here
on this website! Got an idea for a new Machine, a new weapon,
some new technology? Email me and I'll run with your idea.
I reserve the right to modify your idea as I see fit in order to
match the flow of this site but if I use your idea (in any capacity)
you'll get full credit for it here on this site.
THE MACHINES ROSE FROM THE ASHES OF THE NUCLEAR FIRE ...
THEIR WAR TO EXTERMINATE MANKIND RAGED FOR DECADES.
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This website represents an original, thought provoking and continuing extrapolation
of James
Cameron's ground breaking work. Materials and information found on
this website are based on
concepts and ideas that were first presented by James Cameron in his 1984
movie "The Terminator", the 1991 follow-up sequel "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
as well as the two novelizations of those movies. This site has been, is
currently, and will continue to be a work in progress attempting to pay homage to
the incredible death dealing technology presented in Cameron's unique dark vision of the
near future.
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DISCLAIMER
SITE CREATED AND
MAINTAINED
BY
CHRISTOPHER
T. SHIELDS