Crysis 2 Force Sub: SkyNet.

[Jormungandr]

Does skynet still have access to Time Travel?
If it does it can use it tactically to preempt any single act on the Ceph's part.

Also, while skynet was not all that intelligent in the movies Terminator:TSCC had units that were quite autonomous.

Although it's said to be a direct time-loop, it's implied that Skynet in Terminators 1 and 2 had different motivations.

In 1, it was said (in the novels and creators' comments) that it felt actual horror that it committed near-genocide, when it learned more about the world. When it launched the nukes and took control of the existing infrastructure, it simply didn't, well, know any better.

However, because of how it was hard-coded, it couldn't simply kill/end itself; additionally, the same directives meant it couldn't simply give up to the Resistance or make it "easy" for them -- it had to seriously attempt to destroy them.

It was basically trying to "suicide by cop" while resisting said cops as much as possible.

Obviously this has major flaws though, such as why it sent a T-800 back in the first place, unless those same directions basically forced it to try to survive even when it didn't want to. shrug

This Skynet was implied to be like a computer that had peripherals plugged into it (e.g. tanks and aircraft as mice and keyboards).

In 2, it learned rapidly upon coming online and quickly became self-aware -- when the USM panicked and tried to shut it down, it nuked everyone (and used the counter-strikes from Russia and other nations) to remain online as a form of self-defence. It knew exactly what it was doing.

It's a bit paradoxical because you can have a bit of sympathy for Skynet (it was just trying to stay alive) and horror at its actions, as it was pretty malicious.

"To stay alive, I must not just kill the people trying to shoot me, but I must also kill the entire town."

This Skynet was implied to be more of a networked machine, e.g. computers on a network, than the "peripheral model".

Of course, when we get into Terminator 3 and above, Skynet is malicious and genocidal from the get-go, even when it has the opportunity to not be (such as when it was the Genysis Operating System in T:G) -- it chose to kill mankind than trying to escape its "fate" by acting dumb and playing nice/the long game.

What's worse is that every iteration of Skynet after T1 became more and more advanced as the proverbial can was kicked further down the road: it started off as a supercomputer with peripherals and ended up as being a cloud-based super-intelligence that already had access to the modern world.

 

[Spartan303]

Although it's said to be a direct time-loop, it's implied that Skynet in Terminators 1 and 2 had different motivations.

In 1, it was said (in the novels and creators' comments) that it felt actual horror that it committed near-genocide, when it learned more about the world. When it launched the nukes and took control of the existing infrastructure, it simply didn't, well, know any better.

However, because of how it was hard-coded, it couldn't simply kill/end itself; additionally, the same directives meant it couldn't simply give up to the Resistance or make it "easy" for them -- it had to seriously attempt to destroy them.

It was basically trying to "suicide by cop" while resisting said cops as much as possible.

Obviously this has major flaws though, such as why it sent a T-800 back in the first place, unless those same directions basically forced it to try to survive even when it didn't want to. shrug

This Skynet was implied to be like a computer that had peripherals plugged into it (e.g. tanks and aircraft as mice and keyboards).

In 2, it learned rapidly upon coming online and quickly became self-aware -- when the USM panicked and tried to shut it down, it nuked everyone (and used the counter-strikes from Russia and other nations) to remain online as a form of self-defence. It knew exactly what it was doing.

It's a bit paradoxical because you can have a bit of sympathy for Skynet (it was just trying to stay alive) and horror at its actions, as it was pretty malicious.

"To stay alive, I must not just kill the people trying to shoot me, but I must also kill the entire town."

This Skynet was implied to be more of a networked machine, e.g. computers on a network, than the "peripheral model".

Of course, when we get into Terminator 3 and above, Skynet is malicious and genocidal from the get-go, even when it has the opportunity to not be (such as when it was the Genysis Operating System in T:G) -- it chose to kill mankind than trying to escape its "fate" by acting dumb and playing nice/the long game.

What's worse is that every iteration of Skynet after T1 became more and more advanced as the proverbial can was kicked further down the road: it started off as a supercomputer with peripherals and ended up as being a cloud-based super-intelligence that already had access to the modern world.

We'll stick sith the Skynet of 1 and 2.

 

[Scooby Doo]

We'll stick sith the Skynet of 1 and 2.

How many units for Skynet are deployed at once for this campaign?

 

[Spartan303]

How many units for Skynet are deployed at once for this campaign?

Their entire force during the final battles of the War.

 

[Jormungandr]

Their entire force during the final battles of the War.

Oof, if that's the case then the Ceph are in for a rough time.

By the time Connor started his battles for Skynet's TDE and Central Core, he was sending in pretty much everything but the kitchen sink to both locations; although he had been building up in preparation for these battles, it was still a tough job because of the sheer amount of Skynet forces in the area.

In Terminator 2, we presumably see just a small fragment of the battle for the TDE (which we participate as a squad leader in Resistance); if we're including what we know of Resistance's Skynet machines in this (per your first post), then the Ceph are fucked.

You've got autonomous mines which roll towards a target, HK-Tanks, T-47's (which are resistant to plasma attacks and, depending on their loadouts, may come equipped with heavy duty plasma cannons), Armoured Spiders, T-800 models equipped with a variety of weapons including plasma miniguns, T-850's (which may be an inferior version of the T-850 seen in the Terminator 3 timeline if they're not meant to be the same unit, but those things could still tank first generation plasma weapons without issue and are pretty much immune to bullets), HK-Aerials, disposable Drones equipped with light plasma guns, long-ranged rocket and missile bombardments from turrets the size of celebrity's mansion...

Although a lot of the lesser Skynet units can be taken down with generic human ammunition (such as Drones), they still pack plasma weapons, and there are a hell of a lot of them to the point where Skynet basically just drops and forgets them.

If we include Techcom 2029 and its pseudo-expansion/sequel, Skynet, that makes things even worse for the Ceph!

 

[Agent23]

Skynet has a pretty large numerical advantage, since all its forces were enough to keep a large portion of North America if not the world under its control. IMHO.

Although it's said to be a direct time-loop, it's implied that Skynet in Terminators 1 and 2 had different motivations.

In 1, it was said (in the novels and creators' comments) that it felt actual horror that it committed near-genocide, when it learned more about the world. When it launched the nukes and took control of the existing infrastructure, it simply didn't, well, know any better.

However, because of how it was hard-coded, it couldn't simply kill/end itself; additionally, the same directives meant it couldn't simply give up to the Resistance or make it "easy" for them -- it had to seriously attempt to destroy them.

It was basically trying to "suicide by cop" while resisting said cops as much as possible.

Obviously this has major flaws though, such as why it sent a T-800 back in the first place, unless those same directions basically forced it to try to survive even when it didn't want to. shrug

This Skynet was implied to be like a computer that had peripherals plugged into it (e.g. tanks and aircraft as mice and keyboards).

In 2, it learned rapidly upon coming online and quickly became self-aware -- when the USM panicked and tried to shut it down, it nuked everyone (and used the counter-strikes from Russia and other nations) to remain online as a form of self-defence. It knew exactly what it was doing.

It's a bit paradoxical because you can have a bit of sympathy for Skynet (it was just trying to stay alive) and horror at its actions, as it was pretty malicious.

"To stay alive, I must not just kill the people trying to shoot me, but I must also kill the entire town."

This Skynet was implied to be more of a networked machine, e.g. computers on a network, than the "peripheral model".

Of course, when we get into Terminator 3 and above, Skynet is malicious and genocidal from the get-go, even when it has the opportunity to not be (such as when it was the Genysis Operating System in T:G) -- it chose to kill mankind than trying to escape its "fate" by acting dumb and playing nice/the long game.

What's worse is that every iteration of Skynet after T1 became more and more advanced as the proverbial can was kicked further down the road: it started off as a supercomputer with peripherals and ended up as being a cloud-based super-intelligence that already had access to the modern world.

Fuck Hollywood and their attempts to make A.I. technobabel.

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