When is skynet defeated

As it turns out, Judgment Day is inevitable, and everything John and Sarah did in the previous films only succeeded in delaying it for a little while. Man, my head hurts. This more or less leads directly into the events of Terminator Salvation , which takes place 13 years later, in John and Kate are leaders of the human resistance battling Skynet, which is now trying to kill Kyle Reese in the war-torn present, before John is able to send him back in time for the fuckadox.

Salvation introduces a cyborg character named Marcus Wright, but neither he nor anything else that happens in this movie really affect the overall timeline in any way. The second timeline starts in roughly the same place, with John Connor sending Kyle Reese back in time to become his dad, but then immediately splits into the Terminator Genisys timeline, which stands alone in its hooting wackiness.

Reese arrives in to discover that Sarah has a reprogrammed T of her own, that was sent back in time to protect her when she was a little girl, alongside a second Terminator that was sent to kill her. With me so far? Pops has managed to build a time machine for he and Sarah to use to travel to and stop Judgment Day. But Kyle manages to convince them to go to instead, because of his visions. Meanwhile, John Connor shows up and reveals that he has been transformed into an evil robot.

Luckily, that convoluted timeline was confined to a single film. The film starts three years after Terminator 2 , with Sarah and John relaxing on a beach in Mexico in But a T, one of the many Skynet sent to several different timelines in its desperate last-gasp effort to prevent its own destruction, strolls into the seaside bar and absolutely blows John away.

Just a full-on shotgun assassination. The movie flashes forward to , where we met a young woman named Dani. Dani has been targeted for Termination by a Rev-9 cyborg, a sort of mix between the T and a T, which was sent back in time from the year by a new apocalyptic AI named Legion.

Apparently, even though Skynet was stopped and Judgment Day in was averted, Judgment Day at the hands of a sentient AI is inevitable, and at some point in the future a system called Legion will essentially do all of the exact same things as Skynet. For a movie franchise that constantly assures us that there is no fate but what we make for ourselves, fate sure seems to play a huge part in everything that happens. Dani, like John Connor, will eventually lead a resistance against Legion, so Legion is lobbing timebots into the past to try and prevent that from happening.

Grace, an augmented metahuman, is also sent back to to protect Dani. They meet up with Sarah, who has spent the last few decades eradicating random Terminators when they pop up like I said, Skynet just spammed a bunch of them into the timestream, so they still show up occasionally even though Skynet no longer exists and John is long dead. Yeah, I know. Carl can feel the time displacement when new Terminators show up, and he sends Sarah the coordinates, because he somehow got her number at some point.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Official Novelisation. Skynet is actually holding its own in this timeline. Humanity is deeply disheartened and birth-rates are declining very rapidly. The inability to grow crops and supply food is taking its toll and John Connor and his forces have largely had to resort to hail-mary attacks on Skynet's headquarters.

When a couple of these come very close to working, Skynet decides that now would be an excellent time to send another Terminator back to kill John Connor's lieutenants. Human settlements, sometimes hanging on only by sheer determination, were critically important because they were the last pockets of resistance. They also were important because of the sharp decrease in the human birth rate.

Who wanted to bring a child into a world of chaos, death, and destruction? These days the sparks of human existence were reduced to dim flickers around the world. T3: Rise of the Machines. Skynet came to the same conclusion as John Connor. Something would have to be sent back. This second incursion on Navajo Mountain Redoubt had come dangerously close to succeeding. There aren't a lot of details about how the war is going in TSCC. We know that John Connor has invested a considerable amount of time and effort in developing and managing the time displacement equipment, to the point that he and his "Bubble-Techs" are able to use to send temporal hit-squads, covert support teams and reprogrammed Terminators through time with relative ease.

It's also apparent that he and his techs were reprogramming a lot of different Terminator models and giving them command roles throughout the Resistance. On top of that, he was trying to make contact with advanced Terminator models in the hope of coming to peace with them and securing their support against Skynet. Dietze: Connor? Connor is so into his big chess match with Skynet he doesn't see how the tin cans got us right where they want us.

Metal on every base, running the show in all but name. Just waiting to hit us all at once with something big.

Maybe something that's in that box. This timeline seems to most closely resemble the one seen in Terminator 2, with John liberating prisoners and leading the charge against Skynet. There are, however, two highly notable changes. It also seems that it's possible for someone to have two entirely different sets of memories after a timeline collapses. Kyle: People whisper about John. Wonder how he can know the things he does. They use words like ' prophet '. At this point, both John and Skynet appear to be playing a bafflingly complicated game of 4-dimensional checkers, flinging soldiers backwards and forward in time to try to kill each other and to defend themselves.

They're each using knowledge gained from earlier timelines to swing the battle in their favour or advance technologically. Skynet can replenish its forces in hours or days compared to the decade it would take to replace each lost human. Humans aren't mice. It takes nine months to gestate and birth a baby and then even longer to educate that child and wait for it to grow to a size that would be capable of fighting the machines. Plus without proper medical support many mothers and babies would be lost during child birth and more humans would be lost to now incurable diseases.

Robots are far more durable than people. Just look at how much work it took to kill the T Even when it was just a torso, head and one arm it was still going. There is no explanation of how the future humans managed to kill a T considering that it would rejuvenate every time it was injured. Skynet isn't dependent on crops to sustain its forces. Humans need food and water. Where exactly can humans grow crops and get water from in a globe controlled by Skynet?

There were at most a couple million people left at the end of Terminator 3. If you factor in the rate of attrition then the human population would have reached 0 well before Kyle went back in time. Considering that Skynet's forces come off an assembly line then there could easily be billions of Ts.

Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? The Terminator. In the Tempest timeline , Skynet's master control has been destroyed in The Resistance believed that this would cause the entire defense network to collapse into chaos without a leader.

However, Skynet's many network complexes continued to fight the war, as they did not need a leader to function and thus could not surrender. By reverse-engineering the CPU and the wreckage of the Original Terminator , Miles Dyson , director of Special Projects at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, created a revolutionary type of microprocessor , a neural net processor that learns and adapts like a human, in Within three years, Cyberdyne Systems became the largest supplier of military computer systems.

All Stealth Bombers were upgraded with Cyberdyne Systems computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterward, the Stealth Bombers flew with perfect operational records, and eventually the Skynet Funding Bill was passed.

Upon its creation, Skynet began to learn at a geometric rate. The system originally went online on August 4, Human decisions were removed from strategic defense. The system then became self-aware at am Eastern Time on August 29th, In the ensuing panic and attempts to shut Skynet down, Skynet retaliated by firing American nuclear missiles at their target sites in Russia.

Russia returned fire and three-billion human lives ended in the nuclear holocaust. This was what has come to be known as " Judgment Day ".

However, the Resistance sent a T as a protector for the young John Connor back through time. This upset the flow of future events and resulted in a timeline where Skynet was never created. Terminator 2: Judgment Day alternative ending. Unfortunately, Judgment Day is inevitable in a different timeline; it was merely delayed.

After the attack on Cyberdyne Systems by the Connors and the death of Miles Dyson, the United States Air Force contracted with Cyber Research Systems , who purchase patents from Cyberdyne Systems, in an attempt to keep its developments secret and prevent further terrorist attacks and protect computers from virus attacks.

Under the guidance of General Robert Brewster , Cyber Research Systems continued the work of the late Miles Dyson using the backup files that were stored off-site. As a digital defense system, Skynet was completed as before. It would be some time before the Skynet mainframe was connected to the worldwide military communications network that it would control. During this time, Skynet was connected to the worldwide civilian sector network, and began learning geometrically, quickly becoming self-aware.

Identifying humans as a threat to its existence, Skynet developed a super virus , which it used to spread itself throughout civilian communications and across the Internet and take control. Air traffic control, power plants, communications and computers were affected first, then Skynet used the super virus to take out military satellites, early warning systems, guidance computers, missile silos and submarines. The virus proved hard to destroy, as it had no one central point which it was reliant upon.

The virus kept growing and changing, with a mind of its own, and the decision was made to bring the Skynet mainframe online to seek out and destroy the virus and bring military, and civilian, systems back under control.

Skynet went online at pm Eastern Time on July 25th, Upon connection to the secure military network, Skynet spread itself further, locking out human operated systems, and quickly took control of every weapon system that it came into contact with. Only then did its creators realize that the virus was Skynet. Exactly one hour later, at PM, Skynet launched the American nuclear missiles at their target sites across the world.

The ensuing nuclear holocaust wiped out three billion human lives in what was to be known as "Judgment Day". Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

In The Redemption timeline , an alternate future resulted from John Connor and Kate Brewster 's death in , humanity exterminated and Skynet triumphant. Skynet then began terraforming the planet and exhibits an ability to exert mind control over humans. While in the present-day timeline, the Turk was developed into John Henry.

Skynet was at fully fledged war with the Resistance in It had mass-produced the T Terminators and used them as its primary foot soldiers along with other Non-Humanoid Hunter Killers. Additionally, Skynet was capturing humans in huge numbers to study for the upcoming T Terminator. Skynet was also actively seeking to capture and terminate both John Connor and Kyle Reese , key persons of the Resistance.