.      Annihilation Line

    

The resistance called it the annihilation line because of skynets armies that sweeped across its landscapes in huge numbers and wanted to  crush the humans by forcing them to retreat to the sea and then beat them there. It used to be California what was left of it. Skynets been trying to hunt down the remaining survivors with terminators, tanks, hunter killers, etc. The terrain, infastructure of the building have been turned to little more then ash and debris. Dr Mack, a scientist tried to slow down the machines march by uploading a virus  to them but has proven hard if not futile. Terminators have been moving into different locations to destroy more humans, etc. It was skynet playground to crush all resistance forces and pretty much everything that is living. They have been almost proven successful but was stopped by an unpredictable attack that stopped all the machines. Kyle Reese and Jacob Rivers managed to save some prisoners by destroying the factories and terminators. They were the only ones that survived. Not many survived but some were sent to skynet work camps to be incinerated or to do its labor as slaves. Alot of the human captives were greatly malnourished, dehydration, just bad environment. Skynet just uses what its available at its disposal and just wants to crush humans. It does keep humans for scientific work such as the collaborators which are people who work for skynet and teach terminators the psychology of human behaviour and anatomy. Many resistance soldiers and civilians died either by starving in skynet work camps, being killed by terminators or natural causes. There was an hk centurion lurking in California but Jacob Rivers destroyed it. A lot of humans don't make  it past the annihilation line because of terminators, hk tanks, hunter killers, and starvation even. 

How Skynet Almost Wiped Out Humanity

              Dr Miles Dyson

 Skynet knows what it knows. Its a super AI intelligence that became self aware. It saw humans as a threat to its survival and started the nuclear holocaust on humanity wiping out billions and infastructure. It only cares about its self preservation meaning its own survival and nothing else. It controlled the whole network, satellites, factories, etc. For a human to learn something it might take a day or two but it would take skynet to learn it within seconds. Miles Dyson was a scientist who worked for Cyberdyne Systems Corporation. He rose through the ranks to becoming the director of Special Projects and developed a revolutionary cpu called a neural net processor which would later be called skynet. He had to create a new cpu from another cyberdyne factory from two pieces of advanced technology. The terminator arm and cpu. He just used its parts to create the new cpu from it. Sarah Connor tracked down Miles by talking to the terminator from an unknown timeline to help her. Connor destroyed his prototype and then they headed to cyberdyne to destroy all his work so it doesn't get into enemy hands. Miles Dyson died in the cyberdyne building blowing him up and the technology. After the destruction of the facility, it was given over to the US military and named cyberdyne research systems. Dyson wasn't a bad person but I guess he went too far with his project. He thought what he was doing was going to aid humanity not try and destroy it. A machines that never gets tired, never sleeps, no food, water etc. Almost like no need to have a pilot.  Dyson bled out of his wounds and died in the movie terminator judgement day blowing up the cyberdyne facility in the process with a detonator in his hand.

 

Skynet makes peace with humanity

Skynet Made Peace With The Resistance 

                                    

 In the novel terminator salvation, Skynet was being under attack by Thomas Parnell. The serial killer was remade by skynet as TH terminator and was a good prize for skynet with his intellect and weapon proficiency. He later decided to control its terminators as well as wanting to put itself into skynet eventually being him as opposed to it being itself as an AI. His control over the machines was growing rapidly from 25 percent to 80 percent so he was becoming a threat to skynet and the resistance. He was manipulating skynet for his own ends. Its last resort was to contact John Connor and bring Marcus Wright back online in order to bring John Connor a message and to make skynet understand what it was doing wrong even though it doesnt have rational logic like humans can. Skynet made a truce to John Connor not to destroy each other but that they can rebuild humanity again. An AI super computer like skynet realized that humans were special and that they can create life and that machines all along were trying to replicate that. Machines and humans were fighting the same war but skynet could never understand what they were fighting for or what having purpose was. They just were looking out for there own self preservation. Parnell used a remote controlled terminator to kill Connors unconcious body he underestimated him. Skynet decided to transfer Connors personality into a terminator in order to stop Parnell from taking over and destroyed him. Parnell had the best technology that was built into him and still he lost.