Chapter 4: 2001

With the events of September 11th came much fear. Tensions between the United States and the Middle East grew much worse. The US military prepared for a potential attack, and a possible war. This would be the perfect time to put the war machines to the test. With the machines being individual, independent death drones, they may be dispatched easily, what with having no organizational skills. They will all be working on their own, so they cannot give or take orders from each other, and will rely on their human counterparts. At least they will be killing themselves off.

This can mean one of two things. Either the machines will go through some kind of upgrade after failing their first skirmish into the Middle East, or they will be removed from military service and scrapped like Cyberdyne's last failed idea: B166ER. We can only hope that the machines will disappoint the government. Instead of rising against us, they will terminate themselves before they have the chance. We can only hope.

At 8:45pm in Afghanistan on October 7, the first Air Strike was made, bombing pretty much the entirety of Afghanistan's air force and taking out their power. The bombers targeted air defense installations, defense ministries, airport-based command centers, airfields, electrical grids, and other energy production facilities. The mission was a success, but that wasn't enough for the vengeance-hungry leaders of the United States. They sent in ground forces, among those were the killing machine's they proposed to launch into action. Think of this as another Field Test for Cyberdyne.

They sent in escort machines known as T-20 Advanced Utility Server Robots which escorted their war machines in and repair damaged machines. So far the only war machines that they have built are the T-1 Terminator robots. This is it. This is the first Terminator. While still incomplete, lacking a Neural Net processor which allows it to learn, expand, and evolve, and also lacking a central military networking grid known as SkyNet, they are still the body for what will be, in the future, our predators. They better not last long enough to make our government proud.

The machines served the military well, but all of the fighting was in vain. The machines were almost completely taken out in short order. The disappointment sent Cyberdyne's research and development into overtime. The government was furious and took the war machines out of the battle. Cyberdyne would accept nothing but success, so they tried harder to perfect their machines. They knew what they had to do. They had to create a kind of network to connect their machines. Independency is suicide, cooperation is perfection.