Infiltrator
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Skynet developed Infiltrator terminators to mimic humans and infiltrate the human Resistance.
The T-800 was the first truly successful Infiltrator unit, consisting of cloned living tissue over a metal endoskeleton despite that the T-799 had living tissue too. Earlier attempts at Infiltrator units include the T-600, which used rubber skin over a metal endoskeleton, and the T-500, which was wrapped in a crude latex skin.
Later Infiltrator units were based on mimetic polyalloy technology:
- Series 1000: The mimetic polyalloy construction of the T-1000, T-1001, and T-1002 allowed them to replicate any object or person of similar volume that can be molecularly sampled by physical contact.
- T-X: The T-X Series used a liquid metal outer sheath of mimetic polyalloy to cover a metal endoskeleton.
Additional research was put forward into increasingly organic terminators able to more efficiently evade detection and infiltrate human organizations.
- TS-300: The TS-300 is a stealth Infiltrator that uses ceramic endoskeletons and personality transfer software to create undetectable one-off copies of real human beings.
- I-950: Unlike previous terminators, the I-950 was born rather than created with technological enhancements added over time; the I-950 starts out as a baby with a neural net processor attached to its brain, providing an uplink to Skynet. Because of I-950's almost purely organic nature it is harder to detect using metal detectors and is undetected by dogs.
Non-human Infiltrators
According to The Terminator: The Dark Years, Skynet tried a new type of infiltration network using rat robots in 2030. John Connor discovered that Skynet was not only studying rats but all sorts of animals, even humans.
In "Allison from Palmdale", from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a similar program may be in play with the reveal that Skynet has captive, small apes, bears, and tigers in an infiltrator interrogation and production facility on an aircraft carrier.
Quotes
- Kyle Reese: The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human - sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.
- The Terminator
