| "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… Defence
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."
In
the near-future, the human race is teetering on the brink of
extermination. Only a handful of heroic people stand between the
Machines and certain racial extinction. This band of stalwart human
soldiers, led by the legendary John Connor, is the last, best hope
of mankind. Starting out slowly, using guerrilla tactics and hit and
run raids to keep them supplied with essential material, the
Resistance has managed to slowly blunt the edge of SkyNET’s
campaign. In a decades long campaign, Connor has managed to unite
what were once isolated pockets of resistance and guerrilla cells
into a cohesive fighting force that operates under a highly
organized chain of command. Connor trained his people well, and
those that he trained went out to train others.
The
chain of knowledge spread, and Humanity began to fight back, first
in small instances, then in pockets, then in sectors, then in entire
regions. Connor’s technicians have not only learned large portions
of SkyNET’s advanced technology base, but in some instances, they
have also managed to duplicate it and even improve upon it.
Connor’s forces fight in the ruins, in the sewers, and in the
labyrinthine underworld that once formed the complex underground
that fed the bustling metropolises above. The Resistance has the
training as well as the hardware to smash the Machines, salvaging
what they can, learning what they can, and denying the enemy what
they themselves cannot use through a policy of combat losing. This
dark future sees a world still ravaged by famine, starvation,
disease, ignorance, superstition, and the threat of horrible death.
Sometimes, there are things that live in the ruins that are colder
and more merciless than even the Machines
SkyNET has its own plans,
and has made near simultaneous breakthroughs in several areas of
high technology that the humans are not aware of. These
technological breakthroughs will give the rampant AI an edge in the
long weeks ahead and could turn the war back in its favor, possibly
ensuring its victory. Years of constant research into custom
tailored symbiotic cybernetic organisms, using a variety of
techniques and unwilling test subjects, has resulted in a stable
form of vat grown pseudo-organic camouflage skins for its humanoid
based Terminator units. These camouflage skins can be applied to its
most advanced bipedal units thereby allowing them to easily
infiltrate into the human command centers and bunkers to carry the
fight straight to the enemy.
SkyNET’s own mad desire to outlive its creators has resulted in
experimentation and technological breakthroughs in the realm of
matter teleportation. A side effect of this application was that
SkyNET found that it might be possible to travel and send
material backwards in time. The power requirements would be huge,
but certainly within capacity of its engineering and construction
units to build. Already SkyNET has begun work on not only the Time
Displacement laboratory and TD unit, but also the massive nuclear
fusion plants that would provide power to the installation when it
was completed.
Unknown
to Skynet, the humans are already on the move, and will soon strike
a critical tactical blow that will cripple the super computer, but
not before it can send Terminators back in time to try to change the
course of history. Realizing what the super computer has done,
Humanity will also send guardians to stop the Terminators and
preserve history. The battle for the future would not be fought
here, now, but across time itself.
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