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The explosive ordnance was much more lethal and dealt more battlefield trauma. That was unacceptable to the machine god. From the collected field data, SKYNET discovered that while its war machines were much more accurate with their outgoing gunfire, it was still only 67% effective at killing the human combatants.

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It was common in those early days, to see the early Terminators armed with 40mm grenade launchers and electric portable rotary cannons. While it armed the early Hunter-Killer drone and the T-200 and the T-300 early Terminator exoskeletons with heavier KEWs.

SKYNET turned to the classified Westinghouse R&D site in Tulsa and the General Dynamics research site in Austin, Texas. While effective, they were not 100% lethal and with the weak position of SKYNET in the early days of the war, it needed a more effective killing system. When SKYNET began engaging the early human resistance and raiders, its machines were armed with bullet-firing weapons and explosives. Much like that ancient horrific conflict between human nation-states, the machine-god introduced a whole array of new machines and weapons to reap untold slaughter on the human race, non-combatant and combatant alike.īut, why did SKYNET bother with developing phased plasma directed energy weaponry in the first place? Simply put, bullets are an effective kinetic energy delivery system that is proven and tested over centuries and SKYNET has access to all current and in-development military grade KEW.

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Some historians, who worked on the current research project to understand the machine side of the war via the SKYNET archive in Colorado, have compared the level of introduction of new battlefield technology to the First World War. It has to be ruled out to preserve the heart & soul of the Terminator: the first two films. I did enjoy the majority of T:SCC and the interesting world of the past and the future time settings, it is still a mess to make heads or tails of, especially when the shifting sands of the timeline, as the character, acknowledge themselves in the series.

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Then there is the matter of the TV show, the Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles. Much like Civil War surgery, you have to hack off the damaged and useless parts to save the whole, and FWS had to hack off these parts to save the core of Terminator franchise. Adding to the confusion is the massive amount of comic books by two separate companies that are not connected and the array of video games that also do not line up with anything else. All of the films to come after the 1991 sequel are garbage that pales in comparison to the first two films by the dynamic team of James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. Why FWS has limited the “accepted” plasma weapons to the 19 films? These are the only films that attempt to make sense of how SKYNET survived the destruction of its mainframe and the failed mission of the T-800 infiltrator unit to kill Sarah Conner back in 1984. The comics from NOW and Dark Horse are also not considered canon along with considering the vast amount of video games titles as well. We are pretending that Terminator 3, Salvation, and Genesis simply do not exist and their existence was wiped out by a T-800 wearing gargoyles. For the scope of this article, FWS will be considering the films of Terminator, Terminator 2 and their respective novelizations. For our subject, the plasma directed energy weapons of the Terminator universe, we have to limit ourselves to what FWS considers “canon”.

This, frankly, makes the Terminator franchise a mess for any discussion of canon. It doesn’t help that the Terminator franchise has too many masters and too many cooks that do not agree or consult with one another.

Due to time travel featuring heavily in the key moments of the Terminator universe, it screws with the integrity of this work or that work. When FWS begins the research phase of any blogpost, the question of canon comes up and it is always a minefield I have to consider and the Terminator universe is a loaded minefield. non-canon” is often heated and seemingly endless among the iconic franchises of science fiction. One of the most vicious debates among sci-fi fans is the question of the validity of works within a fictional universe that are considered correct and proper.