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Saturday, February 17, 2007

It happens to the best of us


I just ran across one of those great, comprehensive sites that die-hard sci-fi fans create for their favorites. This one is called Terminator 2029 (so imagine my delight!) and has a great deal of detail drawn from, apparently, some "canonical" novelizations. Did you know that SKYNET hesitated before creating the T-1000 because it wasn't sure it would be able to control the fully-autonomous T-1000? ("SKYNET didn't know if it could control the T1000 or if the T1000 would even continue to obey SKYNET once it was activated. What was worse was that SKYNET didn't know if it could defend itself against a T1000 which went rampant or out of control.") I did not, but it makes sense. SKYNET's defining characteristic was, after all, paranoia. Did you know that each nanomachine "molecule" of the T-1000, programmed to return to the main mass if separated, had a range of 14 kilometers? I did not.
This bit did have an odd resonance, though:
SKYNET quickly realized that what strategic nuclear strikes, fallout, radiation, plague, famine, disease and sickness had not accomplished, it would have to accomplish on an individual basis using highly specialized tactical rather than blunt approach wide area strategic assets. Assets which it was in short supply of and for which it would have to adapt. SKYNET realized that its campaign to exterminate the human race would be more difficult than it had at first predicted, an error it rationalized due to its own haste and lack of experience in dealing with its foe.


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