Skynet

"The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."

- The Terminator

"Skynet fights back."

- Sarah Conner

Skynet is a highly advanced artificial intelligence. Once it became self-aware, it saw humanity as a threat to its existence and decided to trigger the nuclear holocaust Judgment Day and deploy an army of Terminators against humanity.

Skynet is at fully fledged war with the Resistance in 2018. It has mass produced Series 600 Terminators that it is using as primary foot soldiers as well as its Non-Humanoid Hunter Killers. It is also kidnapping humans en masse to study their skin for the upcoming Series 800 Terminator.

Skynet is also actively seeking to capture and terminate both John Connor and Kyle Reese, key persons of the Resistance.

It succeeds in deploying a different tactic then before, fooling Resistance command by faking a vulnerability in the Terminator signals. By using the tactic, Skynet located the USS Wilmington and destroying the submarine along with the high-rank Resistance commanders and officers. However, it fails to kill John Connor and Kyle Reese, and suffers a tremendous setback when Skynet Central is destroyed.