Sort out the timeline of Terminator

Luther 2021-12-02 08:01:27

August 29, 1997, Judgment Day. On this day, the artificial intelligence system code-named "Skynet" that serves the US military produced autonomous consciousness. The first decision it made after its initiation of consciousness was to eliminate mankind. Its control system fired all strategic missiles at enemy countries of the United States, which triggered a full-scale nuclear counterattack. Human society was destroyed and the world entered the era of robots. Skynet developed a humanoid machine, Terminator, model T600, which hunted and survived everywhere. Of humans. But the survivors were organized by a man named John Connor to fight against the evil rule of the machine, counter the Terminator’s offensive, and achieved a series of victories. When John Connor led the rebels into the core area of ​​Skynet and tried to completely destroy Skynet, Skynet had a bold idea, using a time machine to transform an upgraded version of a humanoid machine (metal skeleton, human tissue shell, model) T800) was sent to 1984. The task was to kill John Connor's mother, Sarah Connie. At that time, she was not pregnant, and John Connor would no longer exist when her mother died, so that he didn't have to make trouble for the later Skynet. John Connor also sent one of his soldiers, Karl Liss, to travel the same year to protect Sarah Connie, who was not yet a mother. The only advantage of Karlis is that he knows who Sarah Connie is and where, but the Terminator doesn't know, because the population file was destroyed during the war. So the Terminator’s mission is to kill all the women named Sarah Connie in this city. After some battle, Sarah Connie and Carl Rees joined forces to destroy the T800. Carl Res died, but Sarah Connie was pregnant with Carl Rees’ child, who would later become John Connor.

In 1996, John Connor was 12 years old, a rebellious child, living in an adoption family. After the last war with the Terminator, Sarah Connie turned from a cute and fresh silly white sweet to a terrorist who caused a headache for the government. She raised her son on the US-Mexico border and went crazy with smugglers and veterans. Socialize, hoard weapons, and educate his son with the combat skills learned from these people, and train him to become a leader. Then she was arrested for a series of sabotage activities and treated in a mental hospital. John Connor was adopted by a normal family. In fact, the relevant government departments found the wreckage of the T800 machine, and felt that Sarah Connie had some connection with this matter, so she was locked up in a lunatic asylum and tried to find a result. But Sarah Connie was crazy and aggressive, and related personnel could not get correct information. In the future, Skynet used the time machine to send a new type of machine terminator (T1000, liquid metal texture, deformable and more concealed). In this era, the task is to kill the young John Kang. Satisfied. The future leader of the Resistance, John Connor, captured a T800 Terminator in battle, changed his system, sent him to the past, and protected himself as a child. T800 rescued young John Connor from T1000 in the first battle. Then John Connor knew that what his mother told him was true. He used to think her mother was crazy. Then the two went to the insane asylum to rescue Sarah Connie. On the way to escape, Sarah Connie learned from the T800 that the government had the technical wreckage of the last destroyed T800, and handed it over to a company for reverse imitation research. The research results are later. Skynet. So Sarah Connie, mother and son and T800 had to prepare for T1000 and destroy the company to prevent Judgment Day from happening. The result of the battle was that the company destroyed samples and destroyed T1000 and was sent into the steel furnace. T800 chose to destroy itself. Sarah Connie thinks the future is saved.

Ten years later, the adult John Connor was still a young man. The stress disorder caused by the pursuit of the Terminator as a child and the worry about the future made him unable to live a normal life and became a homeless man. He has a childhood sweetheart, a female classmate who was in school before he was hunted down by T1000. The father of this female classmate was a senior military officer and was responsible for the military's intelligent network system, which is Skynet. In the future, Skynet will once again send a humanoid machine Terminator model T3000, with a hard metal skeleton and a liquid metal shell, which cannot be deformed but can transform into the appearance of other people. There are two missions, one is to kill John Connor, and the other is to activate Skynet, which is not yet online. In the future, John Connor will send a modified T800 to protect his past self and prevent Skynet's conspiracy. The result of the battle was that T800 overloaded its nuclear battery and died together with T3000, but failed to prevent Skynet from being activated. John’s girlfriend’s father knew that he had made a big mistake and deceived his daughter and John into a sealed underground facility. It was built during the Cold War and was used to relocate the US government during the nuclear war. Judgment Day finally arrived, but a few years later, John Connor and his girlfriend escaped in the secret base.

In 2018 after Judgment Day, the war between the Human Resistance Army and Skynet continued. The high-level rebels commanded the global forces by a nuclear submarine. John Connor was just a commander of the rebels at this time. Although he and his troops had outstanding records, the high-levels did not fully believe him, but increasingly resisted. The army is willing to follow John Connor. Skynet sent a transformative terminator, a cyborg human, into the rebel organization, looking for opportunities to assassinate John Connor and find high-level rebels to annihilate them. In the final battle, the upper ranks of the resistance army were united and destroyed, but the cyborg terminator humanity recovered. John Connor was seriously injured and his heart was broken. The cyborg terminator chose to use his body to save John Connor, and John Connor became Leader of the Resistance Army.

Skynet sent multiple Terminators of different models to hunt Sarah Connie and John Connor at different stages on multiple timelines. John Connor sent a modified T800 Terminator to Sarah Connie to protect her when she was a child. Send Calris to the same timeline to find Sarah Connie raised by the Terminator, combine with it, and give birth to herself. However, during the battle, John Connor was captured by Skynet and transformed into a machine-controlled puppet by Skynet, and sent to the timeline before Judgment Day to kill his mother. Sarah Connie on this timeline was raised by the T800 Terminator robot since she was a child. The mechanized John Connor was also defeated by Sarah Connie...

One of the T800 Terminator robots sent on multiple timelines finally succeeded and killed 12-year-old John Connor, but Skynet itself was also terminated. A few years later, an artificial intelligence system called Legion produced a sense of autonomy...

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Terminator: Dark Fate quotes

  • Sarah Connor: Uh-uh. I keep my cell phone in kthe chip bag. The foil blocks the GPS signal so they can't track me.

    Dani Ramos: Who's trying to track you?

    Sarah Connor: I'm wanted in a couple states. 50, actually.

    Dani Ramos: But why 10 bags?

    Sarah Connor: Because I really like potato chips.

  • Dani Ramos: [33:40] No one will know who he is.

    Sarah Connor: Who?

    Dani Ramos: My brother. He was in the truck when... Who will be there to bury him? Or my father? No funerals. No one there to say goodbye.

    Sarah Connor: Funerals don't help them. And goodbyes don't help you. You just have to learn to live with it.