Skynet Facilities Main article: Skynet Central Core Mainframe and Physical Embodiment of Skynet Mainframe 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 has control over everything which contains a Cyberdyne Systems CPU. It pools data from battle units, develops tactics and coordinates attacks.

It is the controlling force behind all of the battle units. Skynet is the world's first Automated Defense Network, processing information at ninety teraflops.

5 Skynet's motivation to launch attack in various timelines.

4.4 The Sarah Connor Chronicles timeline.

3 Mainframe and Physical Embodiment of Skynet.

Skynet has also developed time travel technology and sent numerous Infiltrators into the past to carry out various tasks, such as killing specific targets such as Resistance leaders before they can come to power, ensuring its own creation, and aiding in the creation of other Terminators (most notably in coltan factories), building machinery and set up safe zones. The survivors had formed a group called the ' Resistance' under the leadership of John Connor. Later, it would wage the War against humanity by developing and deploying an army of Hunter-Killers and Terminators.

Hence, Skynet decided to trigger the nuclear holocaust: Judgment Day. Once it became self-aware, it saw humanity as a threat to its existence due to the attempts of the Cyberdyne scientists to deactivate it once it had gained self-awareness. SkyNet, or Titan, is a highly-advanced computer system possessing artificial intelligence. 'Primates have evolved from millions of years, I evolve in seconds and I am here.

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