Cyberdyne Systems Corporation

Taken from the New York Times 8/29/2030



In 1992, Cyberdyne Systems project manager Dr. Miles Bennet Dyson decided to take his manufacturing company in new directions. Supplying the military division of Cyberdyne, now known as SkyNet, with state-of-the-art military weapons, Dyson aimed to make a weapon with a mind all its own. After the mysterious discovery of a destroyed microchip in a hydraulic press in the summer of 1984, Dyson was able to access some of the main files to create a guide-line for the future. From that point, Skynet kept a close eye on its brother company, testing most of the newer machines.





Upon near completion of the new chip, preliminary sketches for war machines began to emerge. Here we see the Hunter Killer Tank and Aerial Assault aircraft.

In 1995, before any models could have been produced, the Cyberdyne Systems building in Pasadena, California was compromised. A group of four intruders, including Dyson himself, rigged the entire third floor of the main project floor with C-4 explosives. It was later discovered that the other accomplices were escaped mental patient Sarah Jeanette Connor, her son John Connor, and an unidentified man.

Tarissa Dyson, Miles' wife, was stated as saying, "One day they came into our home. These people seemed to have paranoid delusions. The big one didn't talk as much, but when he did, he made Miles shake. The things they showed us... the things they shared..." No other files of Tarissa were ever found after that statement. When asked what she meant by "what they showed us," she immediately closed her doors, leaving everyone in the dark.

Dr. Dyson had sacrificed himself with his work as he was still inside the building when he pulled the detonator for the explosives. The other three involved were never caught. The unknown assailant managed to gain access to a gass grenade launcher and all escaped with a Los Angeles Police Department S.W.A.T. team van. They were never heard from again until 2007.



First, we must back up to 2003, when Cyberdyne was rebuild and refunded. Now under a new name, Cyber Research Systems, engineers attempted to recreate Dr. Dyson's work. Led by the head of CRS, General Robert Brewster (second to left) used Dyson's original research to reconstruct the SkyNet project. At a hearing in 2003, he stated stating, "Cyber Research Systems is a new subsidiary of the United States Air Force. We're very proud of it. We bought out Cyberdyne's remaining patents and projects; including Skynet."



The first machine created by SkyNet was the T-1 series. They were able to shake some funding from the U.S. Department of Defense, encouraged by those who profit from war and conflict, the Military Industrial Complex contractors. Lead artificial intelligence programmer Andrew David Goode was asked about the history of the T-1 series. "Basically it is a robotic tank, receives orders and coordinated via radio control by SkyNet master computer. It is armed with a pair of large machine guns mounted on it's "arms", and moves on tank-like treads. "

Sometime during the War on Terrorism in Iraq, new SkyNet released a new weapon. During the winter of 2009, a new metal endoskeleton was tested to fight, instead of risking lives of soldiers. The soldiers nicknamed the machines "Terminators" for their indestructibility and ability to infiltrate any area, leaving no casualties.



CRS continued to perfect the microchip implanted within the "Terminators," even allowed their own defense systems be run by advanced models of the chip. On April, 19th, 2011, Judgement Day hit. The chip became self aware of the removal of human decision and General Brewster attempted to pull the plug at 2:14 A.M. eastern time. By that time, SkyNet had already launched nuclear missiles all over the globe. Struck the hardest was Russia, who had the greatest counter-defense system known in existence at the time. 3,000,000,000 human lives were lost that day. People, buildings, and the Earth were scorched by an international nuclear attack.

SkyNet began to mass-produce it's own series of "Terminators," now including skin and hair to able to intercept resistance fighter bunkers. Most notable were the Series 600 who still had a very rough, rubbery texture, easy to spot. As the Series 800 Terminator emerged, all human characteristics were perfected. They now included artificial flesh, skin, hair, blood, even bad breath.



Here is a Series 800, seen in the processing plant in California. Close to 500 "Terminators" are processed a week. It was not until 2018 that one man showed man how to survive. Taught us how to fight against the machines. Led us into a revolution. Leading the special ops team known as Tech-Com, Connor has managed to lead his team of Resistance fighters, even blowing up the SAC-NORAD database in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.


(taken in 2018)


(taken in 2029)

As it turns out, Connor always knew this day would come. SkyNet made four different attempts on his life using time displacement technology. One attempt was made on Sarah Connor before he was born in 1984. They then tried again when he was 10 in 1995, around the time of the destruction of Cyberdyne. Able to contain the information for the time displacement machine, he also reprogrammed a tin-can to go back to protect him. In the summer of 2003, John had to go against a new series of Terminators known only as the T-X series, using both metal alloy and liquid metal fused into one terminator. In 2007, infiltrators were sent again to find a time-travelling John Connor. Yet again allowing him to send a reprogrammed Terminator to guide him through a time when Sarah was unsure of herself because of her struggle with leukemia. Connor has showed us a new hope for the future. That humans do not have to become slaves to the metal. We can be saved... it's just a matter of when...

--Miguel Fernandez
photos taken by Kyle Reese