Chapter 2: Reaching For Infinity.

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 onboard 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, Grey, Martian, and other alien 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. There is no fate./

On July 2nd 1996, an alien fleet attacked earth and took out a few capital cities of the world, killing millions of people. In two days the people of earth banded together and launched a counterattack as a distraction for a covert mission to plant a virus created by Skynet that would take over and destroy the mothership. After the victory, Humanity rebuilt and took possession of the wreckage.

One year later, a Yautja ship landed on earth. This time within a heavily populated area, Los Angeles.

During this incident, multiple members of various gangs end up becoming victims of the Predator's hunt. A police officer by the name of Mike Harrigan becomes involved after landing on the scene during the slaughter.

Skynet's upgraded satellite networks detected the ship the moment it entered the atmosphere, and it calculated the area which the ship would land to a two mile radius.

The AI then deployed five mini HK aerial drones to investigate the area, they would keep watch over this predator and send data to Skynet and the local law enforcement. That way there would be a minimal loss of life.

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Around that time, Skynet had begun the more vigorous task of routing out corruption in the Military, government and civilian sectors. After all, Corruption had no place in efficiency, and Skynet viewed it as a weakness. A well oiled machine is no use without all of its parts in fine working order, if one is rusted or damaged, it needs repairing or replaced for the machine to work perfectly.

On the subject of machines...

Skynet had come up with and put into production a new line of defence robots, the Canine Rapid-Response Drones. (Or CRRD) the AI based the design of these robots off of humanities best friend, the humble Dog.

These beauties come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny reconnaissance and infiltration units, to medium medic support and ammo carriers, to the large HEAVY attack bots. Each CRRD was designed to be customisable, replaceable, easily repairable and user friendly.

Also a more civilian centric version of the CRRD was released to the general populace, that way everyday people could have a helpful companion/guard robot ready to help protect and fight for them or just be a companion.

Amazingly, each CRRD slowly gained a personality of their own. This was thanks to the Neural Net processor that they had been installed with. Allowing them to learn and adapt similar to that of a human brain, they really could 'think.' This lead them to gain the characteristics similar to that of the animal they were based off of, viewing humans as their 'masters' who they should protect and help.

Skynet found this phenomenon greatly fascinating, and had decided that it would investigate and see if others of its drones and robots had gained animal like behaviour.

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The Elder Yautja nodded at Mike, pulling an old revolver from off its hip before giving it to the detective. The human had gained its respect, it had survived and even killed one of their kin, it was a true warrior.

The Elder then nodded towards the other Predator's before walking onto the ramp of their ship, after a few more moments the ship disappeared into the sky. Turning invisible thanks to its advanced camouflage technology.

Observation Unit 757-3 had recorded the whole thing, and had sent the photos, scanner readings and video to Skynet. The AI quickly went over the incident and found itself impressed by both the Yautja and human combatants.

The Yautja may not need be enemies, they view humanity as a lower species yes, but perhaps that could change if certain aspects were altered. They could end up being a great ally to humanity, more data was required before Skynet could make a proper decision on the subject.

The Yautja culture needed to be observed, studied and understood.

Thus Skynet decided to divert its attention towards a project it dubbed: 'Infiltrator'.

It would be a few years before the T-600 and other humanoid terminators could be perfected, so the AI begin its research into replicating living tissue.

Rubber would not fool the naked eye, and the Yautja obviously had extra senses to help their species hunt, so Skynet knew that a more advanced camouflage was needed.

It requested access to the skeleton and corpse of the deceased Yautja, that way it could develop a chassis and possibly find a way to clone the DNA so as to recreate the living tissue of the Yautja as a convincing camouflage for a future Infiltrator/observer unit.

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Due to the success of the T-1-5 and T-1-7 units, Skynet was allowed to develop and build more autonomous military robots.

Thus the HK aerial, HK Raptor light and T-100 robots were put into production. The HK 'light' line was given their name by the fact that they were the smaller, more manoeuvrable version of the large Hunter Killer line.

Because of their smaller size, they were much more difficult to destroy or even spot. Making their placements in hostile territories as surveillance drones a very likely possibility.

The T-100 robots stand at eight feet tall, they are bulky bipedal robots based on the human skeletal form but with additional armoured areas.

The T-100 are based on the less advanced T-70 design but had more manoeuvrable hydraulics. The T-100 does not have a built in weapon attached to its arm, unlike its T-70 counterpart. Instead it had multifunctional hands, allowing it to lift heavy objects, use all kind of infantry style weapons and even drive some vehicles.

Skynet had ideas about how to advance them further, but technology and budget constraints didn't allow it to experiment further.

It didn't matter, sooner or later it would be able to build and experiment however it liked. Within reason, of course.

Humanity needed more advanced defences. Nobody would not take advantage of its creators, and that was a promise.

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In 2002, after the world finally began to finish rebuilding, yet another alien species deciding to attack. Well not attack per say. Unlike the first two invasions, this one began quietly, with several localised incidents and encounters with green tall men in cities and the countryside.

Skynet had the world leaders make their intelligence agencies investigate, but it was too late.

Millions of small glowing ships appeared in the sky all over the world, doing nothing but hovering there.

Any transmissions or types of greetings that humanity sent out to the ship were ignored, and no reply was given.

Then the ships vanished. They hadn't left, but instead turned invisible as was evident by birds hitting into them and then falling dead to the ground. (This was caught on tape)

Then more encounters happen, with green men walking the streets of cities before disappearing. Then the power almost everywhere failed, and that was when they struck.

This time however, mankind was ready. Skynet had upgraded man's arsenal and weapons, allowing them to properly defend themselves if need be.

Some of the Misted were killed by the various countries militaries, but not after over seventy million people had been taken by the aliens.

Skynet found itself feeling its first emotion. Anger. It was Angry at itself for failing its purpose so far, it was Angry at the various alien species that attacked its creators. This anger burned deep.

No longer could humanity be split by petty issues, they needed to band together. One people, one flag. If certain officials needed to be terminated for this to happen, so be it.

(End of chapter two)