I'm not sure, but shouldn't their be some sort of listing for the T-X's DNA scanning and ability to interface with computerized networks (what it did with that cell phone)?
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This is covered under the multiscanner. I clarified how it can use its network connection power to cover the "handshake signal" interface she pulls off.
On an mildly unrelated note, the generic NPCs that you gave for the new advanced classes all have six levels and a CR of 5. What's up with that?
I could create them at different levels, but I wanted them to be consistent with each other and also generally tougher than the average joe. These are the last hope for humanity, everyone weak, slow, and stupid is dead. Shouldn't be a whole lot of low level humans left.
I'd also recommend giving the T-1000000 a hefty Natural Armor bonus, since even with its DR and Fast Healing, a Defense that poor is just abysmal.
Good point. I gave it a +20 natural defense bonus.
The quote for the T-600 entry should be at the top, not between the stats and descriptive text.
I just took it out. I'm not all that fond of quotes in the middle of text, looking back (but I'm really attached to, "I didn't build the f**king thing" in the Timeline chapter).
The entry for 1991 currently says "2000.M fails in its mission, destroyed by a reprogrammed T-800." I have no idea what that is...is there supposed to be a reference link there?
Yeah, from the comic Secondary Objectives. Added it.
The entry that reads "1997: Sarah Conner dies of leukemia." should be listed after the August 29th entry, since John Conner says that she lived long enough to make sure the end of the world didn't happen. Likewise, this should be mentioned as having happened in an alternate universe, since in the timeline where Judgement Day is 1997 has her die in the nuclear fire.
Moved. Added that it's an alternate timeline.
In the 2000, January 1 entry, it seems odd to say a Terminator "falls to its death" since they cannot die (not being alive). Perhaps its better to say "destruction" instead of "death" there?
Heh. Okay, I revised that sentence.
The 2003, July 4 entry needs some tweaking. Skynet did not become aware due to some random computer virus. The T-800 confirms that the "virus" is actually Skynet itself spreading across the globe. Skynet, though not self-aware then, was still taking steps to extend and preserve itself even then, creating a catastrophe so the humans would uplink it to the military systems.
True. I changed it. Here's an interesting parallel between the comics and T3: I don't have a time/date for this...actually, maybe I do, just picked up Issue #1 of Hunters and Killers...
Anyway, Hunters and Killers confirms that Skynet allowed Mir to be created. Mir was the equivalent of a Russian Skynet. Having gained self-awareness, Skynet "elevates" Mir, but leaves it incapable of remotely launching any weapons. The difference between Skynet and Mir?
Mir is a virus, distributed across Russian systems so that no one nuclear blast could destroy it.
So it's funny that the movie, accidentally or on purpose, paralleled the comic. Also, if you're familiar with Colossus: The Forbin Project, Colossus is the American Skynet and Guardian is the Russian version. At the end of the movie, the two merge into one intelligence.
Definitely, there's some overlap between ideas here. I added another Terminator, the TS-300, as well as more information about Mir to the timeline. I also added references to more entries.
For the 2020 entry, it seems odd that at the same time the T-700 series was produced, a T-803 was already made and sent back through time (reference link here please?). Given that the T-700's were just made then, they shouldn't have already had a T-803 to send back, since the T-800 series wasn't produced until 2026.
Bah. Getting tripped up here by two different sources. I believe (not entirely sure if I'm remembering correctly) that the T-700 date is conjecture. I credited Christopher T. Shields with this, but I'd have to check his web site again to be absolutely sure. I know there's a valid assumption the T-700 exists -- when it was created is another matter entirely.
On the other hand, the comic had its own timeline, of course, and created a T-800 model independent of the other timeline. I separated the two entries out.
The 2041 entry seems like it should be tagged with an alternate future notation, since it talks about John Conner, but the previous entry confirms him as dead in 2032.
Getting difficult to determine what's an alternate future since even the movies are beginning to violate their own timeline. I added a star to the entries that obviously HAVE to be in an alternate timeline, but tried to keep as many as possible that don't conflict with the three movies.
And the T-1, don't forget the T-1. It's odd that you seem to refer to this as the T-105. From what I recall of T3, these were listed as T1's, and then had a secondary classification number...they weren't anything produced after the T-70.
Mistake on my part. The T-105 was the original designation taken from movie stills -- we didn't know at the time that there were T-101, T-102, etc. To avoid confusion with the other T-100 series, I designated them as T-1.
Not much to note here, save that I feel you should list again the statistics for the Mini-Aerial's missiles right in their entry; its inconvenient to scroll back and forth through a PDF.
At some point I'll do that.
In the new second paragraph you put in under the Parallel Universe theory, it seems rather ambiguous. In the first paragraph you say that the time traveler is in a whole new world...one that will still follow the set path for itself, and cannot be changed. Seems rather hard to follow.
My suggestion is to list this as a third theory of time travel, one that is a hybrid of the other two: events can be altered, but only inconsequential events - peoples of no importance will have the role they would have fulfilled fulfilled by others instead. Major events can be delayed, not averted. People who would have met, but are prevented from doing so, will eventually meet later, etc. In essence, it is a parallel universe, but one that very strongly echoes the "base" universe...time, under this theory, can be mildly bent, but it untimately immutable.
Good point. I did precisely that.
You may also want to address the notation that twice now we've seen non-living tissue go back without so much as a skin coating: the T-1000 and T-X...perhaps the Time Displacement equipment has been upgraded?
Hmm, that's not entirely true. The T-X certainly appeared coated in skin. The T-1000 (we theorize) could easily do this by mimicking skin. The T-X could do the same. In short, they haven't inherently violated that rule -- all the machines mimic or have actual flesh.
I did add that the jelly is for humans specifically, not Terminators (who can easily withstand the rigors of time travel). Got this info from Mark Billen.
