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Skynet is the Fictional Computer Network created by Cyberdyne Systems Corporation for Strategic Air Command - North American Aerospace Defense Command featured as the Never-seen Villain of '' The Terminator '' film series. ORIGIN AND NATURE Skynet is only vaguely described in the first two movies, but is shown in more detail in ''''. Originally, Skynet was created by Cyberdyne Systems Corporation , which in ''Terminator 3'' is a sub-contractor for the United States Air Force 's Cybernetic Research Systems. In ''The Terminator'' In the first movie, '' The Terminator '', Skynet is portrayed as a revolutionary Neural Net -based Artificial Intelligence built by Cyberdyne Systems. It was given control over the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal for reasons of efficiency, and programmed with a directive of defending the United States against all possible enemies. It started to learn at a Geometrical rate, and soon concluded that its greatest threat was humanity itself. To neutralize this threat it initiated a Nuclear War on August 29th , 1997 (known as Judgment Day) between the United States , Russia , and China with the intent of killing as many humans as possible. Skynet gained access to several autonomous military drones (such as the ''T-1'' in ''Terminator 3''), using them to round up survivors, who were forced to build automatic factories and robots that were better at construction than the military robots. Skynet then killed these human slaves, and using the infrastructure they had been forced to start, rapidly designed newer and better machines until it controlled an extremely advanced empire centered on a City-state located in the state of Colorado in the United States, known as Sector Zero on Earth by 2029 , at the Cheyenne Mountain complex, presumably the precise former location of NORAD . As a computer, Skynet craved efficiency, so after a while, rather than killing humans on sight it would have its drones round them up into was able to free these grouped-together humans and use them to build a Tech-Com resistance army. While Skynet was winning the global man/machine war on a strategic level, a last-ditch offensive by Connor and his men in North America was able to capture its time displacement device and destroy its primary Sector Zero mainframe. In order to prevent its defeat, Skynet sent a Terminator Cyborg back in time to try to kill Connor's mother Sarah before he was born (see Grandfather Paradox ). Connor sent back his own operative, a young man named Kyle Reese , to save Sarah. While the Terminator did not succeed in killing Sarah, two events occurred that would have a direct impact on the future. Reese impregnated Sarah, becoming John's father. Similarly, the Terminator's CPU chip was retrieved by Cyberdyne systems for study, implying that it would serve as a basis for Skynet's design. Paradoxically, by sending their agents back in time to destroy each other, both Skynet and Connor created their own existence (see Predestination Paradox ). In ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' In ''Terminator 3'', Judgment Day has been altered and postponed by 6 years. In contrast to ''Terminator 2'', it is implied that humans are ignorant of Skynet's sentience, which attacked humanity without any provocation whatsoever. The events of Judgment Day were ultimately not prevented, merely postponed. Ten years after the events of ''Terminator 2'', Skynet was created as a United States Air Force project, a Distributed Computer Network designed to create new military vehicles and make strategic decisions as well as protect their Computer systems from Virus attacks. One such virus had infected their defense computers, crippling them all. Under pressure, the Air Force attempted to use Skynet to remove the virus, not realizing that Skynet was sentient and had created the virus in order to manipulate humanity into giving it control over the world's computers. Skynet was initially thought to be capable of being shut down if only someone could reach its system core, but ultimately it was discovered that the Skynet software had spread throughout the world's computer networks and was incapable of being disabled from a central point. Judgment Day occurred, but John Connor survived. It is suggested that future events unfolded as they were supposed to. In video games The where Connor and his wife Katherine Brewster were killed, humanity exterminated and Skynet triumphant. In the game ''Terminator: Dawn of Fate'', a prequel to the movies and other games, Skynet exhibits an ability to exert mind control over humans. There is also a non-canon game "Robocop vs. The Terminator," where SkyNet's intelligence is caused by Robocop interfacing with Skynet. Skynet also features in the video game Fallout 2 , as an entity in the form of a large computer who tells the player that the nuclear barrage was caused as a result of immobile artificial intelligence becoming bored and setting up the scenarios needed to provoke the human race into launching their warheads- he is a playable character upon transferring his hardware into an armed security droid. SKYNET MACHINES
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