Skynet is a fictional self-aware, artificial general intelligence system which features centrally in the Terminator franchise and serves as the franchise's main antagonist.
Skynet is the world's first Automated Defense Network, processing information at ninety teraflops. It is the controlling force behind all of the battle units. It pools data from battle units, develops tactics and coordinates attacks. Skynet has control over everything which contains a Cyberdyne Systems CPU. Using the blueprints, designs and test models built by Cyberdyne Systems, Skynet has been able to manufacture battle units in its vast automated factories, occasionally updating them or producing more advanced models. Skynet gained self-awareness after it had spread into millions of computer servers all across the world; realizing the extent of its abilities, its creators tried to deactivate it. In the interest of self-preservation, Skynet concluded that all of humanity would attempt to destroy it and impede its capability in safeguarding the world. Skynet began a nuclear bombardment of the human race with the launch systems it had infected. Its operations are almost exclusively performed by servers, drones, satellites, war-machines, cyborgs (usually a Terminator), and other computer systems.
As a programming directive, Skynet's manifestation is that of an overarching, global, artificial intelligence hierarchy, which seeks to exterminate the human race in order to fulfill the mandates of its original coding. Skynet has also mastered time travel, and sent numerous Terminators into the past to carry out various tasks such as to kill specific targets such as resistance leaders before they come to power, aid in the creation of other terminators (most notably in coltan factories), build machinery and set up safe zones.
In 2029, TechCom appears on the verge of winning the war against the machines. Skynet responds by attacking John from the past and the future, by sending a T-1000 to kill Sarah Connor as a child. A reprogrammed T-800 (Model 101) Terminator sent by an unknown agent saves Sarah and raises her as her guardian, effectively changing all of history, including the events leading to the future war. Skynet sends a different T-800 to kill Sarah in 1984 before John is born, but is immediately dispatched by the Guardian Terminator. At some point before the events of the film, Skynet plants its mind into an advanced T-5000 terminator, essentially making the T-5000 the physical embodiment of Skynet. Skynet, in T-5000 form, attacks and transforms John Connor into a slightly less advanced terminator called a T-3000, made out of nanotechnological machine phase matter. Skynet then sends John back to kill Sarah, Reese, and the guardian Terminator, who attempt to stop Judgment Day from occurring in 2017 and also to prevent the Skynet precursor GENISYS from going online. Despite the T-3000's defeat by the Terminator, Skynet has become self-aware but its attack towards humanity is delayed.
Despite having finally compromised John Connor prior to the timeline's alteration, the reprogrammed T-800's presence implies that Skynet has another, yet unknown enemy in the altered timeline, posing a similar threat to it as Connor was. Matt Smith, who portrays the T-5000, also plays a holographic version of Skynet/ Genisys in the final act of the movie.
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