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Kaliba Group

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The Kaliba Group is a foreign company with direct ties to the modern day Skynet. It is a shady organisation with decidedly nefarious motives that further Skynet’s goals in the past and possesses contact with the future, for it has agents working for it from the year 2027 (including Greys and T-888 infiltrators).

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The Company

How the Kaliba Group started and who founded it has not been revealed, though it is possible the company was created by Greys sent back from the future by Skynet to ensure its creation. However it started, the Kaliba Group operates in foreign territories and its exact location is unknown. The company has control over (or is controlled by) the modern day Skynet, whose base code matches that of the original program created by the late Miles Dyson of Cyberdyne Systems.

Skynet may not have been created until very recently, for the disappearance of Daniel Dyson (Miles’s son) occurred three months prior to the arrest of fugitive Sarah Connor. It is therefore possible that Skynet is the creation of young Dyson, or he at least serves as an advisor on the project. Skynet in this time has wired itself into the internet and is gradually seizing control of valuable assets, much like it did in the T3 timeline.

Employees of the company are bound by contracts of secrecy and are forbidden to ever discuss their employers or their jobs to anyone, even family. Failure to comply with these rules often results in the immediate termination of the employee by their peers. Those who believe in their work are shown to be fanatical and amoral, capable of performing heinous acts with little regret and twisted justifications.

Their largest base of operations in the United States so far is located in a town they themselves founded, called Charm Acres. Most of the residents are unaware of Kaliba’s presence, but those whose family members work for the company live under the constant shadow of secrecy. The employees operate out of “Desert Canyon Heat and Air”, which to the outside world is exactly what it sounds; but is in actuality an HK R&D facility.

Season Two

Derek Reese followed a Kaliba Group lawyer, intending to kidnap him and extract information out of him with Jesse Flores' assistance, but Flores didn't show.

Shortly afterward Kaliba was able to hack itno the computer systems of Zeira Corporation's prototype Artificial Intelligence John Henry. During the data download, John Henry was able to discern that he had been hacked not by a person but rather by another artificial intelligence (Skynet) that was based upon the work of Cyberdyne Systems - specifically Miles Dyson. Further, John Henry was able to determine that the Kaliba AI had taken over greater than 60% of the civilian internet.

Kaliba representatives, posing as employees of a water company, then were assigned to locate and terminate key targets to their operations including: Catherine Weaver, Savannah Weaver, Derek Reese, John Connor, Sarah Connor, and - specifically - Cameron. A Series 888 infiltrator was known to be operating alongside them posing as a Water Delivery Guy.

Activities

"Complications"

  • Charles Fischer is sent back to 2008 with the objective of planting backdoors in the military mainframe, allowing Skynet to seize control of its systems over time.
  • Fischer is captured, tortured, and executed by AWOL Resistance Fighter Jesse Flores and Derek Reese.

"Earthlings Welcome Here"

  • Kaliba locates former employee Alan Park, now living as a woman called Eileen, by tracking the activities of Sarah Connor and recovers a piece of hyper-alloy he'd stolen from them.
  • A faceless assassin murders Alan and attempts to remove Sarah, but is unsuccessful.
  • Using information gathered from Alan, Sarah locates "Desert Canyon Heat and Air" and breaks in, resulting in a confrontation with Ed Winston (the on-duty guard) that leaves both parties with gunshot injuries.
  • Sarah crawls back to her vehicle and escapes, but witnesses the HK Drone flying overhead.
  • Ed Winston is tended to by Kaliba surgeons.

"The Good Wound"

  • Kaliba begins an immediate evacuation of the facility. A transmission giving this order is picked up on an unsecure line by AI John Henry, who informs Catherine Weaver of their activities.
  • Weaver, a T-1001 renegade, assaults the facility and murders its occupents, destroying everything inside in the process.

"Desert Cantos"

  • Kaliba funds a funeral and grants compensation to the families of all 32 employees who died in the "accident". No one from the company attends to represent them, however.
  • George McCarthy, believed to be dead by all but his wife and daughter, works in secret to clean up the mess made by Weaver.
  • Weaver assigns Mr Walsh the task of locating George, but George lures him into an underground passage and murders him, placing his body beside the pool that the HK Drone hides in.
  • Sarah Connor discovers Kaliba's control over the town, which Derek Reese describes as resembling a Skynet workcamp.
  • Sarah, John, Derek, and the cyborg Cameron witness the Drone as it rises from its hideaway and flies into the distance.
  • George collects the Drone inside a transport truck and drives it to a new location.

"Some Must Watch, While Some Must Sleep"

  • Ed Winston captures Sarah Connor outside a Kaliba office building and takes her to an undisclosed location (a warehouse).
  • Ed interrogates Sarah with drugs and learns of her son, then plants a tracking node under her right breast.
  • Kaliba orders her immediate termination, but Sarah breaks free and kills Ed with a gunshot to the head at close range.

"Ourselves Alone"

  • A Kaliba lawyer is targeted by Derek Reese, but leaves the city before he can be captured.

"To the Lighthouse"

  • Skynet hacks into John Henry and probes him; discovering his purpose, the location of Zeira Corporation, and identifies Savannah Weaver.
  • Kaliba tracks the Connors to a lighthouse location and sends a Grey to assassinate John, resulting in the death of the Grey involved and Charley Dixon. John escapes.
  • Another Grey attacks Sarah at a clinic after she discovers and disables the tracking device in her body. The Grey is incapacitated. Sarah escapes.
  • Two more Greys capture Derek and take him to a warehouse, one of them being killed by Cameron in the process. The other attempts to deactivate Cameron with intruction from Skynet when she finds the warehouse, but is likewise killed before he can remove her chip. Derek is liberated.
  • John Henry is reactivated and informs Weaver of Skynet, Kaliba, and Dyson's involvement in the project.

"Adam Raised a Cain"

  • A T-888 is sent to terminate Weaver and her daughter, Savannah. The girl is saved by Sarah, John, and Cameron. However, Derek Reese is killed by the Triple-8 before it's disabled.

"Born to Run"

  • The T-888 purchases silencers and assaults Zeira Corporation, killing a guard.
  • Weaver confronts the Triple-8 and removes its chip, terminating the machine.
  • Sarah Connor is informed of Daniel Dyson's disappearance.
  • The Connors and Weaver meet for the first time to discuss an alliance.
  • Kaliba orders the HK Drone to crash into the Zeira building in an attempt to destroy Weaver. It fails.

Known Affiliates

Notes

  • Operatives of Kaliba commonly wear grey track suits, including their Terminator agents. This could be what coined the name "Grey" for human traitors in league with Skynet.
  • It is a popular theory that Kaliba is based out of Canada, as hinted at by Cameron's nonsensical suggestion to move there instead of remaining in Los Angeles where Skynet was supposed to be created.

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