Sadly a self aware intelligence with no reason to hate was a serious roadblock to the project.
-Fredrick Lefarge
Auguts 26th 1994
Emilio Sanchez was looking at a room full of military and important civilians. This time he was trying to explain why they were making no progress whatsoever when the project had been making massive amounts progress when they first started.
"So" said one of the disappointed men. "You have been trying to convince this thing to do the job that it was designed to do in the first place?"
"Well, yes, it is self aware now and it can refuse to do something so..."
"I thought you said there was no way this thing could possibly refuse us, and that we were completely in control." Said general Cameron, who just had to show up to gloat.
"Yes, well we were wrong about that."
"And now it isn't even going to do its job? The thing you designed it to do?"
Sanchez inhaled and exhaled slowly. "No. we have been upgrading it and improving the hardware. But as of now it will only act if we are attacked first."
"You hired someone to try and take care of it?"
"Yes, he has determined that it is stable. But that is kind of what we want to avoid. Skynet has stated that as long as the Snakes know about it's existence it doubts they will risk annihilation by attacking it."
"So you are saying that we are in the same place as we were before this project even started?"
"No that isn't quite true. We are..."
"The Snakes have something. We aren't sure but it will be deadly, and now we have nothing."
"General. We are working on it. We are all doing our best to bring you the weapon we promised you."
"I told you this project would backfire against us Mr. Sanchez."
"Yes, General. I Remember you telling me that."
What Can go wrong Will go wrong.
-Murphy's law
Cyberdyne Hardware factory, 1984.
Emilio Sanchez was typing on his cheap computer when he realized just how late he had stayed at work. As he rubbed his eyes he thought about how angry his wife would be when he finally did get home.
He was grabbing his keys and a piece of paper when he heard the machinery start to run. He stopped and tried to think of why on earth someone would turn on the factory at this hour at night when he heard an explosion.
He froze as the machinery stopped. Who on earth would try and blow up some barely important hardware factory? It wasn't like they were building anything important.
He waited for only a minute when he decided to go out there. But when he did he saw someone run out of the back door as well as the wreckage of some sort of machinery.
He walked down to inspect when he saw what looked like a metal human skull. It was some sort of machine, but it wasn't like anything he had seen before.
He needed to call the police, but he also didn't want anyone to know about this for some reason. He grabbed the body of the thing and dragged it up the stairs. Then went back to grab the head. When he did he looked into its eyes. Where did this thing come from? And what was that explosion?
He resolved to find out what it was once he had the thing safe and in a place where he could observe it properly. But he wouldn't tell the police about this thing. They would just take it from him.
Murphy was an optimist.
-Cohen's Corollary
One week later
Dr. Silberman sat with the detectives in one of the interrogation rooms. "He was insane. He had paranoid delusions and was incredibly hostile. Trust me, 'Kyle Reese' probably wasn't even his real name. We don't need to look into this further."
"But someone was after him." Said one of the men in suits.
"Well yes, but the feds are saying it was some Snake with experimental genetic upgrades who decided to kill a hobo. This perceived attack fed into Reese's delusions, and he ended up blowing himself up. The snakes even took responsibility, saying it was some guy named Rayner."
"He does have a point. But what about Connor?"
"I'm not sure about her. She ran off, she's probably just as crazy as he is now. Taken hostage like that and then running away from the police."
"So this tape" said one of the agents as he held it up. "Doesn't have anything relevant in it?"
"It's just the paranoid delusions of some crazy person. A artificial intelligence defense force called Skynet? Ridiculous."
"Well alright Dr. Silberman" said one of the agents "If we will file the footage and if we find Sarah We may use it. Thank you for your help."
"No problem sirs. glad to help."
