- Building the time travel displacement equipment.
- Making t-1000 terminators because they can go rogue and overthrow skynet.
- Allying with collaborators.
- The t-800s because they can be reprogrammed and they are able to learn.
- Catherine Weaver was a t-1001 who hated skynet and decided to make a supercomputer called the turk to try and destroy it.
- Being a logical cpu, has it's malfunctions and is not that bright vs humans creativity and unpredictableness.
- It was losing the war so it made a last stand effort and put its consciousness into a satellite in orbit but John Connor destroyed it with a missile ending skynet once and for all.
- Humans prove too cunning and unpredictable while skynet is not.
- While it can think geometrically, every computer has it's flaws or weak points.
- It's worst nightmare is if the machines learn how to fight back against skynet and doesn't want to be overrun with rogue machines.
- Humans have been able to reverse engineer skynet's advanced technology such as the plasma weaponary, study the terminators and control the machines giving them a big advantage.
- Skynet needs networks, factories, power plants, satellites, and other industrial assets to progress but if all destroyed or most of it, then there won't be much to work with.
