The battle pitted humans against Cyberdyne machines, which developed ever-increasing capabilities. In a panic, its creators attempted to shut it down, but Skynet retaliated by launching a nuclear attack against Russia, knowing that the Russian counterattack would eliminate its enemies in the United States, initiating an indeterminately long period of global warfare. On August 29, 1997, Skynet became self-aware. The system went online on August 4, 1997. In the Original timeline, after studying the wreckage of the T-800, Cyberdyne reverse engineered its CPU and created a powerful new microprocessor for weapons systems, becoming a major contractor for the US military.Ĭyberdyne eventually developed Skynet, a network of supercomputers that employed artificial intelligence in order to replace human beings as commercial and military aircraft pilots, and for the control of other military systems, including nuclear missiles. The Terminator: Rampage Judgment Day timeline However, as John Connor and part of team was in a null-time fields, he was able to sent a Resistance commando back to 1988 to destroyed the Meta-Node in the Cyberdyne Systems Laboratory. As Skynet of this timeline gained various knowledge from the Meta-Node, there would be no Resistance after the nuclear holocaust. The Meta-Node then serve as information tutor and guardian, uploading to the fledgling Skynet all the tactical data gathered about the future, then protecting it so it could carry out Judgment Day. This leap of engineering accelerated the events that led to Skynet achieving self-awareness, thereby making any Resistance futile. It provided the technical data, which accelerated the development of Skynet. Rampage timeline Īfter its arrival in 1984, Meta-Node was able to reach Cyberdyne Systems Laboratory in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. You can help Terminator Wiki by expanding it. The Terminator Deviating timelines Tempest timeline Thus, the company obtained the machine's wreckage, including its CPU chip and an arm.

As of 1984, the small company owned a factory.Ī T-800 Terminator, which was sent from the future and designed to kill humans, programmed to assassinate Sarah Connor, was crushed in one of the hydraulic presses in Cyberdyne's factory. Founded in the early 1980s, its products were possibly computers or processors, as well as some sort of smaller parts producer for larger manufacturers of high tech equipment. Terminator 1984 - Deleted scene 7 - The FactoryĬyberdyne initially began as a manufacturing corporation at 18144 El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, California. 2.8 The Sarah Connor Chronicles timeline.2.4 T2 3-D: Battle Across Time timeline.

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