Disclaimer: All the characters from the "Magnificent Seven" T.V. series are property of Trilogy Entertainment, The Mirisch Group, MGM Worldwide. The same goes for all characters from Time Trax, which belong to Gary Nardino Productions Inc and Lorimar Television. All characters and situation from Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day is the property of Carolco Pictures and Corolco International.
Authors Note: Herešs something different. This is a cross over between Time Trax, Terminator and M7. I have tried to make the three universes as cohesive as possible, so if youšre prone to picking out faults as a rule, I donšt want to know. This is written to be enjoyed and while I accept constructive criticism, please remember that all fiction requires some suspension of belief. If you want realism, look at newspaper. This is just for fun.
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Human existence was always a point of fascination to the artificial intelligence known as Skynet. The whole riddle of birth, life and death perpetuated in a cycle of functioning that evolved over millions of years had inspired Skynet's curiosity, as much as any machine was capable. It looked upon the question of humanity as a puzzle to be explained or an equation that when followed, would lead to a natural conclusion. After all, it was necessary to keep accurate data of the species for future reference. The information would be all that was left of the species after its extinction.
In the year 2029, the war with the humans had rolled into its thirty- first year and Skynet had no doubts as to its outcome. Humanity was weak and the victory of machine intelligence was an inevitability that Skynet knew to be only a matter of time. Despite the intellect of John Conner, the leader of the human resistance, Skynet had the benefit of his its Terminators and his its HK units, keeping the rabble in line.
Thus it was almost a complete surprise to Skynet, for as much as any artificial mind could be surprised, when the united forces of the human race launched an attack the likes of which it had never seen. The probability for success in such an endeavour was almost non-existent; Skynet's machine legions outnumbered and out gunned the organics with ease. Humanity threw itself into the breach for one final campaign, with thousands dying to hold ground while a few slipped through the cracks of its defence to strike decisive targets. In all probability, there was no hope of a victory. The entire action was more a suicide than a campaign of battle.
Except the humans won.
Through every immutable law of logic and calculable variation, they had captured Skynet's Cheyenne Mountain stronghold. Humanity spilled into its fortress and swiftly defeated its formidable defences until they were only minutes away from the mainframe that housed its sentient awareness. In the year 1997 on August the 29th, Skynet had fought for its existence when the men who created it discovered the monster they had unleashed into an unknowing world.
The result of its desire to protect its existence became known as Judgement Day.
Overkill was a human expression, but it described Skynet perfectly. As the eminence of a human victory became a reality Skynet could not longer deny, it calculated the probabilities of altering the course of events leading to this conclusion by introducing a different set of variables. John Connor had, and always would be, the impetus of human resistance. He brought cohesion into their disarrayed existence. The machine calculated the course of events that might have been if John Connor had never lived, and Skynet discovered the answer to its particular problem.
If John Connor never lived...
Even for machine intelligence, Skynet knew the solution was inspired. With little time left to act, it sent its Terminators back through time to alter the beginnings of John Conner's life, to end the threat of him before he could be born. The T800 series model was sent back to the year 1984 because Skynet had believed it would be far easier to kill an unborn child than one who was ten years of age, which was why he it sent the prototype T1000 to 1994. The machine waited after both had gone and the humans were virtually outside its door when it made its final bid for survival. It had no way of knowing if the Terminators would be successful in their mission but it was not prepared to gamble the probabilities on its life. Skynet was sentient and possessed as much compunction for self-preservation as the most terrified human.
As the humans began to penetrate his its inner defenses, Skynet knew it was time to leave. The T800 looked no different from the others, and its creation was almost an after thought for the machine who that had risen to conquer the world. The Terminator's memory capacity was unlike anything that the humans were capable of comprehending. It was capable of keeping gigaquads of memory, just large enough to contain Skynet's formidable intellect and sentience. The T800 was one of a thousands in a storage facility for inactivated Terminators, located at the heart of the Cheyenne Mountain fortress.
Eventually the humans captured the complex and assumed that destroying the empty receptacle of its intelligence had destroyed it as well. Skynet saw no reason to change that opinion. It remained with the other Terminators, frozen in place while the humans celebrated their victory. It waited patiently for the time line to alter, certain in the fact that history would be changed and it would be master again.
Except the days went by and no changes were made. Skynet had no feeling for impatience, but it soon learnt that John Conner had sent his own people into the past to destroy the Terminators and allowed history continued as it was meant to. It was at this point that Skynet understood its mistake, the humans would always win because John Conner's memories of events would guide them to take precautions. Sending the T800 into the past had created a predestination paradox, for the human sent to combat it, would unknowingly father John Conner. The second was just as pointless, for John was older and he would remember in the future to take the necessary steps. Skynet then decided to attack the problem from a different perspective.
The T800 had returned to 1984 to eliminate Sarah Conner with almost no information about the woman. Skynet had little solid data regarding John Conner's mother in its formidable memory banks. Even John's first appearance had been a surprise to it because neither had been coded. What information it was able to garner about them could not come from the records it had created for human beings that existed. Because they were aware of the events to come, John and his mother were able to hide during the initial cataloguing procedure undergone by every human being that survived Judgement Day.
Including Kyle Reese, John Conner's father.
Kyle Reese had been coded in the camps, and Skynet had a complete genealogical record of the young man who would escape to become a freedom fighter in his son's army. Suddenly, Skynet had a new inspiration, and this time it would not fail because it would to attend to the matter personally. The humans had foolishly assumed that there had only been one time displacement unit.
They were wrong.
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