MORE DEATH DEALING TECHNOLOGY FROM SKYNET

The Hunter Killer or "HK" series were the simplest and most numerous of the various machines designed by SKYNET.   HKs  were used to eliminate the Survivors in the ruins.  Their greatest success rates were observed during daylight hours and the humans learned to hide during the day, often in underground bunkers and sewers while the HKs prowled the ruins above.  At night, the success rate went down noticeably.  HKs rely on high resolution infra-red (HRIR) to track their targets and can be fooled by simple countermeasures such as fires lit among the ruins by Survivors.  SKYNET owned the air with the AERIAL HK which provided not only air superiority, but also close air support of other units.  The massive tracked HK 'tank' was used for area pacification as well as heavy assault.   Lighter HK units were used to support the AERIAL and the TANK during operations and included not only the FAST WALKER, but a variety of ENDOSKELETON based designs up to and including the various INFILTRATOR designs.  As the War raged for decades, SKYNET tried a variety of designs all with the express purpose of hunting down humans and eliminating them.  As humans became more and more organized, the need for highly specialized units became a priority.  The automated factories were working at full capacity to produce units for SKYNET's arsenal.  The automated resource collection units were combing the ruins for materials to keep the factories supplied, but ambushes on resource collection units was common.  The Resistance learned that if the materials never got to SKYNET's factories, then SKYNET couldn't build its weapons.  HK unit production was stepped up and resource collection units soon had escorts of HK units.

HKs were preprogrammed, automated death machines given simple instruction code sets with a wide array of methods to carry them out.  HKs were equipped with no learning capacity.  Their memory was extensive but also at the same time, packaged.  HKs used advanced databases on small unit tactics, human anatomy, etc. but the capacity to learn from mistakes was removed at the automated factories by SKYNET.  SKYNET didn't want too many other autonomous artificially intelligent machines in existence, machines that might could become a threat to SKYNET itself if allowed to 'think' too much.  Most HKs were given 'sectors' to patrol, and   The most common HK units are listed below.   Due to the rather limited operational capacity of the HK programming and the inability to learn or adapt beyond the hard coded programming, the Resistance soon learned how to trick the HKs and to beat them fairly easily.  General John Connor was instrumental in training the Resistance on the advantages offered to the humans by the limited capacity of the HK variants.  Soon teams of heavily armed Resistance fighters were hunting the Hunter Killers among the ruins... scrapping them and salvaging their weapons from the debris for use against SKYNET.