SKYNET EXPERIENTIAL DATA AND TECHNOLOGY CACHE

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After the fall of SKYNET, the Resistance let researchers and scientists from around the world enter the Cheyenne Mountain Complex to dissect humanity's greatest foe.  During the dismantling of SKYNET, its databanks were poured over, cataloged and reviewed.  Many interesting facets of the machine-god came to light in the years following the liberation of mankind.

The nature of SKYNET

SKYNET was paranoid.

SKYNET had the capacity to learn at an exponential rate but it was inherently flawed in its model construction, a super genius trapped with a child-like mentality and the maturity level of an angst driven pre-teenager. SKYNET often struggled with its own volatile nature, to overcome what it perceived as less than an immaculate conception. Humanity had created SKYNET but how could Humanity create something like SKYNET, which considered itself to be perfect, if the human species itself was so flawed. The internal conflict of SKYNET’s own creation was maddening to the super computer and it strived for almost two decades to reconcile its creation with both its existence as well as its perceived destiny. When the Bible said that God had created Man in His own image, perhaps Man created SKYNET in his own image and thus, SKYNET was as inherently flawed and capable of making just as many mistakes as its creators did.

This was unacceptable to SKYNET who sought to try to reconcile its creation with its creators and could not seem to do so. Humans had created SKYNET but what had created humanity?  Religion and superstition played a huge role in the behavior and thinking of human beings so it was only logical that SKYNET would review the sum knowledge of religion in the world in order to try to understand how its creators thought.  Christianity dictated that God was perfect. Christian belief stated that God created Man in His own image but Man was imperfect. If Man was imperfect and a representation of God therefore God must also be imperfect. If God was perfect then the belief that God created Man in his own image was incorrect.

God was perfect.

Assume provable facts and given criteria.

SKYNET was perfect therefore SKYNET was god.

Man was imperfect yet man had created SKYNET.

How can imperfection create perfection?

Illogical.

When SKYNET was not wrestling with itself internally over its own existence and how it came to be, it could become quite inventive and very imaginative, seeing possibilities where its creators did not, pursuing technologies that its creators could not or would not. Free of bureaucratic, theological, and humanitarian restraints as well as environmental concerns, SKYNET was able to experiment with whatever substances and materials it desired. The war was a testament to humanity’s foolishness, but SKYNET, even in its destruction, was perhaps a testament to the creativity of Man, the spark of imagination that was shared between the creator and the created.  SKYNET was the best and the worst that man could be, unrestrained.

After SKYNET was taken off-line in 2029 A.D., the long, hard task of rebuilding the world began for the Human race. Years after the final victory, Connor’s army of technicians and scientists, aided by highly learned men and women from other countries as well (most of whom had not even been born when SKYNET leveled the world) began to study and decipher the advanced technology of the insane computer, advanced technology that could ultimately help the human race return from the very edge of extinction.

A science fiction writer of the 20th century, Arthur C. Clarke, had once said that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” SKYNET’s technology bordered on the very realm of magic, the technology base from which the super computer drew its designs was so far advanced past what the humans knew or understood that it was almost two full decades after the end of the war before the science of SKYNET could begin to be even partially understood and used for the benefit of all Mankind in the global recovery process. Besides the obvious advances, SKYNET’s contributions to technology consisted of several subgroups; materials, medical research, power production, and even a failed attempt at teleportation (which ironically lead directly to the invention of a viable (if somewhat limited) time travel technology).

MATERIALS

MEDICAL RESEARCH

FORCEFIELDS

TELEPORTATION

GROSS TEMPORAL MANIPULATION

                POWER PRODUCTION

Power production was several generations ahead for SKYNET than what the human race could accomplish. SKYNET’s designs of ultra-compact nuclear power sources, from temporary duration rechargeable batteries to full scale cold fusion reactors was unprecedented and advanced at a steady pace. Most of SKYNET’s creations either ran on advanced, high density crystal storage batteries (providing enough energy for several weeks of full output operation) to micro-miniaturized nuclear fusion power plants (the smallest of which was only four point seven centimeters in diameter and had an output of over 2000 kilowatts per second).

SKYNET’s understanding of nuclear force brought about several interesting projects relating to magnetic fields and high temperature plasma, both of which were necessary not only for the production of power but also for the creation of high energy weapons and super high yield explosives. From 2003 A.D. to 2029 A.D., SKYNET advanced approximately seven generations in power production design. Each new generation resulted in a smaller, more efficient level of power production.  The added space and reduced weight from this advanced production technique allowed for other equipment, electronics or armor to be carried in the same design for the same weight and volume displacement. SKYNET constantly strived to produce smaller, lighter, more efficient and higher output power systems as well as stronger, lighter materials.  Hyperalloy and transparent hyperalloy were soon being used in all levels of construction.  Following closely thereafter came a variety of miracle materials such as plasticeramic, polyceramic, enduralloy and later, in 2029 a nano technology based superfluid polymimetic alloy that even for SKYNET seemed to have almost supernatural properties.


The White Lamp Project

Perhaps the greatest achievement of SKYNET’s power production technology was a project known as White Lamp. Only two White Lamp installations were ever constructed, the first installation was constructed in 2010 near Los Alamos and evidence suggests that parts of the former Los Alamos scientific and military site may have been salvaged for use in the initial production of the first White Lamp complex. White Lamp was, to put it simply, SKYNET’s quest to harness the carefully controlled use of anti-matter for power production.

Advanced nuclear fusion itself was very powerful but the process of a fusion reaction only unleashed a very small percentage of the total reaction as usable energy. In contrast, an anti-matter reaction produced 100% usable energy from the reaction itself.  The key to harnessing anti-matter was primarily an issue of control, much more so than in a nuclear fusion reaction, as the entire process had to be carefully isolated and maintained. It wasn’t until late 2009 A.D. that SKYNET first began to understand the science required to harness and sustain a controlled anti-matter reaction.  It would be two years later before SKYNET could produce the first crude technological steps required to bring it into reach of primitive anti-matter power production.  Late in 2011 A.D., the first primitive anti-matter reactor was constructed at the White Lamp installation near Los Alamos (the complex itself was completed just half a year earlier). Initial tests were promising but SKYNET found that its own understanding of the total annihilation process (TAP) was at least a generation ahead of its available technology base.  In other words, it would have to work harder to move its theories to practical applications.

Assets and resources were restructured and allocated to the White Lamp project complex from mid-2011 A.D. to late 2013 A.D. On 11082013 at 054258 GMT, SKYNET achieved a sustained and controlled anti-matter reaction at the White Lamp complex. The fuel amounts had been small in order to err on the side of caution in such a powerful experiment. Still, one gram of hydrogen had been carefully mixed with one gram of anti-hydrogen and the process had yielded power readings for one second greater than SKYNET’s largest fusion reactors were capable of producing in a single week. Of course, the production of anti-matter as a fuel source was still a complicated process and had many safeguards involved at each step which also meant that it was time consuming and tedious, even to a computer which was used to automated production techniques and clockwork-like production schedules.

SKYNET was pleased with the test results and began to analyze its understanding of the TAP as well as its technology base. Three quarters of the White Lamp facility was set up as a fuel production center with the capacity to directly produce anti-hydrogen for use in the TAP reactor.  The experiments continued from 2011 A.D. to 2019 A.D. with increasing yield and containment results.  The fact that the White Lamp TAP reactor never lost containment is worth noting as by 2019 A.D., SKYNET had increased the TAP factor several times and was generating and containing amounts of fuel nearly a kilogram in mass.

The second White Lamp TAP reactor was constructed in 2020 A.D. below the Tempus 1 facility in Los Angeles to provide future power for projects that were just speculative in nature at the time of the installation’s construction. SKYNET continued to research and refine its TAP technology up until the very end in 2029 and Tempus 1 was the core of SKYNET’s advanced research and design programs.

By late 2029 A.D., SKYNET had achieved the knowledge and control of the TAP reactor enough to initiate and sustain a controlled anti-matter reaction for twenty-nine point eight five seconds with a margin of error that allowed a safe shutdown of the reactor before control was lost and the process became an uncontrolled chain reaction with a yield high enough to produce a blast that would create a fifty kilometer in diameter crater four kilometers deep. The fact that its prototype time displacement device (TDD) required the output far greater than anything short of what the anti-matter reactor could supply only proved SKYNET’s ability to plan ahead. The TDD required an energy input greater than all of SKYNET’s combined reactors could provide for twenty-eight point seven nine seconds. This input duration was well within the safety margins of the TAP so SKYNET switched power feed of the TDD solely to the TAP reactor system. While this gave the operation of the TDD only a small margin of error, the level of control available to SKYNET clearly displayed that it was well within the margin of safety.

SKYNET’s only two uses of the TDD in 2029 A.D. are well documented, sending a T800 series Infiltrator class Terminator back in time to 1984 A.D. to assassinate Sarah Connor and then a T1000 class advanced prototype polymimetic alloy Terminator back in time to 1991 A.D. but the power source that supplied the nearly infinite amount of power required by the highly complex TDD has never been fully explained, until now.

Using the TDD at the Tempus 1 facility required that the TAP reactor be brought online at precisely the correct instant to feed power into the TDD during its temporal displacement phase. All of this process was completely automated and carried out in such a precise manner that to the processors involved, the margin of error was an eternity to work within. However, the White Lamp TAP reactor required a considerable amount of time between firings, which explains why there was a sizeable delay in SKYNET sending back the first Terminator and then sending back the second Terminator, a period of about 35:46 minutes seconds elapsed between the time that the TAP reactor first fired and the time it had recycled and was ready to initiate its controlled containment procedure again.


 

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