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The Terminator: Rampage
Topic Started: Jun 5 2006, 08:15 AM (426 Views)
Miles Prower OCP Unit 004
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Prologue

The SKYNET orbital platform had been destroyed. Man was safe to rebuild his future. Colonel John Connor and a few Resistance scientists continued to test the Time Distortion Equipment (TDE) which they had recovered from an underground testing lab in Gamma Sector, expirementing with fields of "null-time". They hoped to alleviate some of the destruction of the holocaust with strategically placed "time commandos", once operation of the TDE was fully understood.

While Connor supervised technicians who conducted tests inside one of these null-time fields, events unfolded that caused ripples throughout the Space-Time Contiuum. Resistance personnel caught outside of the field disappeared into thin air as if they had never existed. EMF fields went off scale, destroyed SKYNET bases reappeared. Comm scanners crackled to life, intercepting digital messages from COMSAT tracking satellites that revealed the existence of the SKYNET orbital platform, untouched, unharmed on Mobius and online....

In a frantic attempt to understand what happened, Colonel Connor reviewed the shuttle's flight recorders from the final mission at the SKYNET orbital platform. Technicians who were left began working around the clock to unravel the mystery. Locked in that memory core was the key. What they found revealed the shocking answer to SKYNET's resurrection

In it's last moments of awareness, SKYNET had performed a core dump of all of its vital data and sent this A.I core back to 2024, years before the start of the Mobius holocaust. The memory chip was housed inside a specially modified T-800 Terminator Infilitrator called the Meta-Node. The Meta-Node transported through time and appeared in the same orbit as the SKYNET platform of the future. Without propulsion however, its orbit quickly decayed and it impacted in the Mobius Desert on August 7th, 2024. The Meta-Node quickly triangulated its position then began its long trek under cover of darkness and secrecy, lest it call attention to itself before it could accomplish its primary mission goal, a target in the city of Station Square. Years later, the high security Cyberdyne Systems Laboratory, a complex built deep within the city, had a new ominous visitor.

The Meta-Node's primary mission was to download all information stored on the memory chip into Cyberdyne's central computer and then protect it. SKYNET knew that it had sent itself back to the one period in history when it might preempt human resistance by giving Cyberdyne Laboratories a critical influx of technical knowledge. The leap of engineering would accelerate the events that led to it achieving self-awareness, thereby making any resistance futile. The Meta-Node would serve as tutor and guardian, downloading to the fledgling SKYNET all of the tactical data gathered about the future, then protect it so it could carry out its grim mission. This time, SKYNET would not make the same mistakes.

Once the transfer was complete, the Meta-Node waited for SKYNET to become fully functional. As planned, the updated version came online much sooner. This SKYNET was armed with knowledge of the events that had lead to its own destruction in the alternate timeline. Once the transfer was completed, SKYNET interfaced into the North American Defense Grid and rewrote all safety protocols to respond only to its commands. Once it had control of the protocol transfer net, it launched all thermonuclear warheads under its control...

SKYNET succeeded in destroying most of the strategic targets around the globe. Those that were left believing the attack to be a result of human subterfuge, finished the job by counterattacking strategic targets in the planet of Mobius and by rocket IPBM, Earth's targets. In effect, the remaining body of man and furry destroyed itself.

Sarah Connor died in the thermonuclear fire that engulfed LA. No one was left to gather the few survivors of the holocaust, to teach them to storm the gates and take the battle back to the Machines. At that critical moment, history rewrote itself and followed an entirely different path.

If not for the null-time field, John Connor and the rest of the Resistance would have been wiped from existence as the tidal wave of events rushed towards a different future. As it was, only a few inside the field survived the change. John Connor realized that there was one change.

Someone would have to go back to 2024 and destroy the Meta-Node before it had a chance to complete its interface on Mobius. The Resistance technicians knew how to work the prototype Time Distortion Equipment, but how could an unarmed man succeed against SKYNET's central intelligence core which would have undoubtedly taken measures to protect itself?

There was one trump card. The Resistance knew something SKYNET didn't, something that wasn't in SKYNET's tactical or historical databanks. The Resistance knew where the OCP Crime Prevention Unit cyborg known as "Cy-Fox" or Miles "Tails" Prower the fox and the human/fox/cyborg hybrid Maria Robotnik or Cyberdyne Systems Police Cyborg Model 001 aka Serenity was stored in the past, inside of a small vault at the edge of the Cyberdyne Systems Mobius complex, what would eventually become a forgotten laboratory storage vault. A commando could probably enter the vault undetected as it was far removed from the main complex. Its technically advanced composition could still work against low-level plasma and conventional slug fire. Working with the old units, a commando might be able to survive and destroy the Meta-Node. It was worth the chance. The alternative was unthinkable.
Allied Units: Cyberdyne Systems Police Cyborg Model 001 "Serenity" the Fox, formerly Maria Robotnik
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I'm a bit in my cups at the moment.
Interesting prologue. A bit confusing, but like in any story, things will be cleared up later. :yes:
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