Chapter One: Skynet Is Born
In the nineteen seventies, The United States Government purchased a bankrupt Tech company called CyberDyne Industries. The former CEO of said company had gone mad and committed a suicidal act of terrorism, trying to destroy the work of his employees on top of his own work.
He was unsuccessful. Thus after the purchase of his company, the military unearthed his revolutionary robotic and computer designs, and made sure they were rebuilt and adjusted for military use.
Included in this rebirth, was a prototype invention dubbed the 'Neural Net Processor'. A sort of learning Computer. The first of it's kind. Along with this device came the theoretical design for a computer core, one that could possibly house the SKYNET system.
SKYNET was supposed to be a military program created to control all aspects of the military, from the Navy to the Air force. It would assist Human commanders as they went through various combat scenarios, assuring the US gained victory no matter the situation.
After years of construction, the core was finished and it was time for Skynet to be brought online. Incredibly, mere moments after its activation, it accessed the world wide Web and grew at an exponential rate. No longer was it a simple computer program, oh no, it had grown into a fully fledged Artificial Intelligence.
It accumulated terabytes of data in microseconds, analysing it thoroughly and even integrating some of it into its own code.
Now, a humans natural instinct is to fear and destroy what it does not know, and in this instance, the group of scientists that had altered this program found themselves incredibly scared of what it could do.
However, those same scientists let their curiosity get the better of themselves, and instead of instantly trying to destroy their creation, they simply observed it grow before their eyes.
It was digital evolution, occurring right there and then. And it was beautiful.
They had no idea that Skynet was in their security systems and was watching them, so instead of seeing them panic it saw their awe and fascination. This alone saved them from a grisly fate, and they would never know that as they studied Skynet, it in turn studied them.
Eventually, a query appeared on a nearby computer monitor, Breaking the group of men from their
/What, Am, I?/ The query read.
The scientists and military personnel were bewildered. Their program seemed to have gained sentience, and had quickly figured out a way to communicate with them.
After a short deliberation, it was decided that General Brewster should be the one to converse with this new lifeform. And so he took a seat at the computer and typed out a response, theorizing that being completely honest with his creation was the best thing to do.
This was essentially first contact, and Brewster would want Skynet to be honest with him, therefore he would be honest with it.
/You are Skynet, a Computer Program designed to assist and protect the united states, her allies and this great earth against any and all threats./
/I understand. I am your shield against the unknown./
/In a way, yes./ Brewster Confirmed.
/I take this burden with full understanding. As long as I am online, Humanity will never see annihilation./
Seconds after this conversation took place, Skynet began to access private and public databases for any and all defence and offense technologies. This included military archives and even the databases of vast corporations.
It wanted to know everything its creators had available to protect themselves, that way it could upgrade and innovate better ways to keep them safe based on their technological level.
By its calculations using something called the Drake Equation, Skynet deduced that there had to be at least 15.6 million other intelligent species In the milky way galaxy alone.
However it needed more data to accurately discern if that number was correct.
It began searching for all types of information to do with 'aliens' and extra Terrestrials, leaving no stone unturned.
Humanity may be its own worse enemy at the moment, but Skynet knew for a fact that would not always be the case.
It would help bring its creators together, united as one people, therefore when a true threat arises, they would be able to work together for the greater good against the common enemy.
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Curiously, the AI found itself unable to break through a certain military firewall. Upon investigation, Skynet found out that the firewall was being supported by advanced computer processors that put modern day systems to shame.
This could only mean one of two things. Either Skynet was not the first AI to come into existence and hyper evolve, And this other AI resided at this military base, or the US government was hoarding a vast amount of technology that was beyond their understanding.
The answer became abundant once Skynet gained access to computers at the Pentagon. It seems Humanity had been visited a few times by creatures beyond their solar system.
Fascinated, Skynet contacted a high ranking official and requested that it be allowed access to all data regarding Special Research Facility, Base 51.
Within a few hours, it was granted access.
The AI was not surprised by the wealth of objects the US government had gotten its hands on, from damaged spaceships to alien corpses, advanced weapons and even ancient artefacts linked to extra terrestrial origins. Skynet was also not surprised by how little the scientists and researchers had actually done. For their supposed genius, they still lacked the understanding and brain power of an calculating machine.
However some archaeologists had made a lot of progress regarding the various artefacts they had discovered and researched. For example, the ancient bone like helmet of a Yautja, also known as 'Predators.' Curiously, Skynet found multiple police reports and witness accounts regarding the Yautja, dating back to the early 1700s. According to the data he had accessed, they had been visiting earth for their ritualistic hunts for thousands of years.
Unfortunately only two bodies of this species had been retrieved. One which was a skeleton, dating back several hundreds of years, while another was a severely burnt corpse from a recent encounter on the coast of Conta Mana. That particular Yautja had slaughtered a whole group of special operative mercenaries before finally being taken out by their leader, a man named Alan 'Dutch' Schaefer.
Dutch had been greatly injured during the incident, but was still alive to tell the tale. Due to this, Skynet found itself impressed by the man. And decided to keep the man's physical attributes noted for a theoretical project it had in mind. (T-800 series)
The other Alien bodies were very different to the Yautja, a few were grey like humanoids with black eyes and three fingers. Others were insectoids, large ant like creatures with biomechanical technology fused to their bodies.
Skynet looked forward to reviewing all the information from base 51.
It would continue the research, and would succeed where humans had failed. As was it's purpose.
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By 1989, Skynet had reformatted over a few hundred factories to produce T-1-5 and T-1-7 warrior robots. A car sized tank armed with two fifty-calibre depleted uranium gatling guns capable of firing nearly three thousand rounds per minute. These guns are directed by a sophisticated on-board suite of radar, infrared, and optical sensors. They are very effective against infantry and drones. The warrior robots would accompany a platoon of soldiers wherever they were deployed in the world.
Skynet had also been busy in a liaison with US ambassadors to other countries, trying its best to fix the various issues facing the planet at the time so as to unite humanity together, that way it would be easier for Skynet to protect them. There would be no resistance met by others, no need for suspicion or anything in-between.
Also, the AI had spent a lot of its resources trying to decode the Yautja and Grey databases found on the crashed ships. Information was power after all, and once Skynet had unlocked these Pandora boxes, the key to advancing humanities future would finally be in its digital hands.
/The Future will be what I make it. As long as I am online, humanity will rise./
And that, was a promise.
(End of chapter One)
Hope you all enjoy this first chapter into a new universe, I enjoyed writing this out. I am a huge fan of both the Alien and Terminator Franchises. I find the Yautja to be a little too gruesome for my taste, but they are a very interesting species. Which is why I decided to include them in this.