Thursday, July 09, 2015

Terminator Genisys film informatics Part 09: Humanoid Terminators

Hunter-Killers (HKs) are artificially intelligent autonomous war machines built in automated factories. They comprise the majority of the "soldiers" in Skynet's army. Many are similar in overall form to the war machines of today (tanks, aircraft) while others are humanoid endoskeletons.

HUMANOID HUNTER KILLER UNITS
Humanoid Hunter Killer Units
, also known as Terminators, are androids developed and intended to be similar to a human endoskeleton in appearance and function.
Skynet studied the human body, and used that knowledge to create the Infiltrators, machines that look and behave more like real humans with real skin, so they could infiltrate the Resistance.
A number of Terminator series have been released over the years. Some series have sub-series which are basically an improved version of the original series. Sometimes, the fuel system is upgraded or the CPU is replaced with a more advanced chip. Further divergent timelines show evidence of additional advanced, increasingly organic infiltrating Terminator series developed and fielded in both the past and the Skynet-dominated futures.


Series 600
The Series 600 Terminator
is a Terminator series mass-produced by Skynet starting in 2016.[1] The Series 600 Terminators serve as early Infiltrators featuring titanium alloy endoskeletons which were sometimes covered in rubber skin. As a result of their rubber skin covering, Resistance fighters could easily spot the T-600s in the field.


Series 700
The Series 700 Terminator
is a Terminator series which served as the stepping stone between the Series 600 and Series 800 Terminator. The T-700 is the first generation of the Series 800 Terminator. Individual Terminators within the series are often referred to as the T-700s. are structurally identical to their Infiltrator cousins but are built solely for combat as they have a more durable endoskeleton and have a CPU less advanced than the Series 800. Units of the 700 Series are also entirely reliant on Skynet for command and control functions as they lack the ability for independent thought. However, unlike the T-800, the T-700 endoskeletonlacked advanced Hyperalloy and Coltan materials in its structure, making its endoskeleton just slightly more durable than the T-600 therefore vulnerable to small arms fire. The T-700 Combat units were replaced by the T-800 by 2018 when Skynet was able to mass-produce the latter.


Series 800
The Series 800 Terminator
is a type of Terminator mass-produced by Skynet. Individual Terminators within the series are often referred to as T-800s. The T-800 was Skynet's first cybernetic organism, with living tissue over a hyperalloy endoskeleton. This made it Skynet's first successful Infiltrator unit, capable of infiltrating the Resistance. The Series 800 Terminator was the first in a line of Series 8xx Terminators in various timelines, including the Series 850 and the Series 888 Terminators.


Series 900
The Series 900
is a type of Terminator mass-produced by Skynet. The T-900 is Skynet's follow-up to the Series 8xx. It is a cybernetic organism — living tissue over a hyperalloy-armored endoskeleton.
With rogue Terminators increasingly reprogrammed to help the Resistance, Skynet decided to make a Terminator series with the intent of terminating other Terminators. The T-900 series is twice as fast, strong and durable. Its battle chassis is covered with hyperalloy armor and has many choices of vision. The T-900 is powered by a miniature plasma fusion reactor in its torso, making its body glow in certain color. It has the ability to drive animals to the point of attacking their own handlers.


Series 1000
The Series 1000 Terminator
is a Terminator series produced by Skynet in 2029. Unlike previous Infiltrator models that used rubber skin or living tissue over a metallic endoskeleton, the T-1000 is entirely made of a liquid metal called "mimetic polyalloy", meaning it can deform and take any shape it touches of the approximate size.
The T-1000 was constructed using a new technology developed by Skynet. Each molecule of the T-1000 was a primitive, miniaturized version of the total machine, and every molecule had programmed into it the blueprints for all the parts needed for the construction of the whole T-1000.
One of the fundamental prime directives of the T-1000 was "recovery of essence"; as the more it lost, the less effective it became. Also, the default command in the mimetic polyalloy's molecular memory was to find the main mass and rejoin it. As this trait was encoded at a very basic level, it was this emergency camouflage programming that was normally exhibited when a T-1000 was critically damaged, showing itself as a malfunction or "glitch". A damaged T-1000 may have, for example, begun to "meld" into floor coverings or other objects that it was in physical contact with, against its own will, due to its particles undergoing this form of self preservation.


Series X
The T-X
is a model of Terminator produced by Skynet in the future. One model of this unit was dispatched by Skynet into the past in order to terminate John Connor. The T-X ultimately failed in its attempts to destroy the Tech-Com resistance leader.

With the success of the mimetic polyalloy T-1000 Series, Skynet continued to develop its liquid metal technology, this time combining it with an advanced endoskeleton, similar in shape and structure to that of the Series 900. The resultant T-X Series is stronger, faster, more intelligent, and more deadly than any of Skynet's previous battle units, effectively making them redundant. However, its infiltration abilities, while impressive, are inferior to the T-800's, as they lack living tissue, the ability to sweat and bleed, thus their shape-shifting ability is only useful to a point, while a Terminator that is bleeding or possesses scars is more likely to be mistaken for an actual human.

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