Saturday, July 04, 2015

Terminator Genisys film informatics Part 04: John Connor/The T-3000


John Connor is the son of Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese, and the leader of the worldwide human resistance, as well as the more specialised Tech-Com. Skynet, the supercomputer mainframe of the machines, decides that John Connor is the focal point of the rebellion and his termination would end the opposition. After repeated failures at terminating John during the war, Skynet decides to use a time displacement device to send Terminators to various points in the past in an attempt to terminate him before the war even begins.

Original timeline
John Connor is a messianic figure who will lead the Resistance to defeat an empire of robotic Terminators amassed by Skynet following Judgment Day. When his mother Sarah Connor became the target of a time travelling Terminator unit in the first film The Terminator, John sent his close friend Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect her, knowing Kyle and Sarah would later conceive John himself.

With foreknowledge from his parents, John fends off Terminator assassination attempts in the second film and third films before Judgment Day on July 24 2004, mostly through the aid of reprogrammed T-800 units sent back in time to protect him. In the fourth film, John fights with the Resistance in a post-apocalyptic setting after Skynet has taken over. He receives a huge scar on his face in his encounter against the T-RIP in the cyborg factory at San Francisco,


New timeline
In the year 2029, John Connor leads the war against the machines. In the final Los Angeles offensive, he is notified by his army unit that Skynet will attack on two fronts — past and future, thereby changing warfare forever. John sets up two units, one to strike at Skynet's main defense grid, and a second (led by Kyle Reese and himself) to destroy Skynet's main weapon, a time machine hidden at a remote storage facility. After Kyle Reese is successfully transported back into 1984, John is attacked by the T-5000 (who has taken on the guise as one of the Resistance fighters) and transformed into a human-terminator hybrid, the T-3000. John travels back in time to ensure Skynet's creation- now 'believing' that the future requires man and machine to come together like he has- in a parallel change with the T-800 from The Terminator to Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Despite his superior physical strength, he was later destroyed by "The Guardian" Terminator when both of them were trapped inside a prototype time machine; with the machine currently only capable of generating the electro-magnetic energy that prevented non-living tissue travelling through time without actually generating a temporal portal, Connor is ripped apart while trapped at the heart of the machine.

Specification
The phase matter in T-3000's chasis is held together by a magnetic field that could be further manipulated into developing stabbing weapons and granting the individual regenerative and impersonation abilities equivalent to those Series with Mimetic polyalloy. It can absorb incoming fire better then previous series and reconstitutes quicker than even a T-1000 could; however, it lacks the ability to split a part of itself to serve in role as tracking device nor independent sub unit. The unit could practically dispel into mist by weakening its magnetic connections momentarily and reassemble elsewhere at frightening speeds, even to the point of phasing through people, giving the T-3000 enhanced infiltration abilities compared to other models. It is also capable of learning via touch, such as determining security codes while impaling the user of those codes, much like a T-1000.

In addition, much like a T-1000, a T-3000 is immune to electrocution, as it is entirely formed by the nanites of its phase matter. Given that the T-3000 is built by roboticisation of a human, it retains a human base form. It can temporarily break out into a more amorphous state, but given a strong magnetic bond ensures the robotic cells retain together, they always return to the shape of a human body. Underneath the skin, the cells remain in an accurate replication of the muscular system, albeit in a silvery color.

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