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Series 900
The Series 900 is a type of Terminator mass-produced by Skynet. The T-900 is Skynet's follow-up to the Series 8xx. It is a cybernetic organism — living tissue over a hyperalloy-armored endoskeleton.
With rogue Terminators increasingly reprogrammed to help the Resistance, Skynet decided to make a Terminator series with the intent of terminating other Terminators. The T-900 series is twice as fast, strong and durable.[1] Its battle chassis is covered with hyperalloy armor and has many choices of vision.[2] The T-900 is powered by a miniature plasma fusion reactor in its torso, making its body glow in certain color.[3] It has the ability to drive animals to the point of attacking their own handlers.[1][2]
Known variants
The 900 and its variants
Skynet made models for different purposes on the battlefield which they also named differently:
- T-900: The standard model of the T-900 without the living tissue.
- T-900 (Infiltrator): This type of the T-900 has the endoskeleton covered with living tissue, able to come close to humans.[2]
- T-900 Supply: This type of the T-900 has red sensors and Terminator rejuvenation kits. During battle, they can supply ammunition to the other Terminators.[2]
- T-900 Heavy: This type of the T-900 is very much like the T-900 Supply in build. They have blue sensors and can have an RSB-80 Plasma Cannon. They can also notify HK planes to bombard a human base or convoy.[2]
- T-950: The T-950 is an advanced model of the T-900.
Possible Flaws
Interestingly, the T-900s have appeared to be particularly inefficient and otherwise inferior compared to older models, despite their increased capabilities.
One opinion is that these T-900s had little combat experience compared to the battle-hardened T-850. Their CPUs may also have been set to read-only, allowing Skynet more control over them but at the same time limiting their ability to learn.
In the context of the Terminator games, all of the Terminators' strength and lethality are compensated for both the sake of ESRB rating and gameplay.
Design Differences
T-900's cameo appearance in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Determining which version is canon remains difficult. However, the original T-900 design is used as the merchandise and featured as a cameo in the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines film with blue glowing as opposed to red, making the original version closer to canon.
Terminator 3: War of the Machines
Like the T-700 model, the original T-900 has several distinct variations in design. The original T-900, is a hyper-alloy armored foot-soldier built to replace the T-800 as the standard ground unit in the war against the Resistance. It possessed a red glow from the plasma reactor housed in its chest (others glowed green or yellow depending on their purpose).
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines game
The T-900 maintained its previous appearance, only this time the detail on its endo-skull was clearly different to that of previous Terminators; possessing a reinforced jaw bone structure and an overall increase in cranial protection.
An early design of the T-900 shows a slightly different model with less armor around the spinal region and the thigh area. During a scene of the game, one of the machines identifies another as a T-950. However, all other promotional material refers to it as a T-900.
Terminator 3: The Redemption
The final version of the T-900 possesses a lot more in common with its predecessor, the T-800, than it does with the T-X — featuring a T-800 style endo-skull and a bulkier chassis that gives it the appearance of a T-800 that has had armor plating applied to its endoskeleton. Like the others, it glows red from within, but to a lesser degree.
Notes
The T-850 endoskeleton
The T-900 endoskeleton
- There are four glowing colors of the plasma reactor: blue, red, green, and yellow.
- In Terminator 3: The Redemption, the T-850 endoskeleton is similar to the T-900 with less armor plates.
- According to the book Terminator Vault, Cameron is of this series.
- Note for editors: The difference between the T-900 and T-950 is still ambiguous. If you have more information, please help with editing the page.
- Specified: Editors who played the games or owns guidebooks of the games
- Main article: Talk: Series 950
Merchandise
- DREAMAZZ
- MediCom
Appearances
- Film
- Comics
- Terminator 3: Before the Rise
- Terminator 3: Fragmented (T-950)[citation needed]
- Television series
- Trading Card Games
- Games
Gallery
- Concept art
(The Redemption)
(Rise of the Machines)
(early version)
- Cover art
- Screen captures
This section need to be sorted out which image is from which game.
References
External links
- The Terminator Fans (Fanon)
A T-800 Infiltrator
The Infiltrator is a type of Terminator that features a human appearance, created by Skynet to mimic humans and infiltrate the Resistance.
Specification
- See also: Living tissue
An Infiltrator is usually a Humanoid Terminator with an outer sheath of human appearance, in order for a machine to infiltrate human groups.
If the CPU is set to read-write, an Infiltrator can become more human-like and even blend in human society. [1]
Some Terminator Series can consume sustenance. Cameron, a T-900 from The Sarah Connor Chronicles timeline, is capable of eating a corn chip[2] and later a piece of a pancake.[3] The T-1001 is also shown to have this capability.[Episode needed] The T-888 presumably consumes food, given Vick Chamberlain's ability to maintain a human cover for years while married to a human woman.
The T-600 Terminator was the first Infiltrator developed by Skynet as an attempt to infiltrate the Resistance. However, Skynet used the rubber skin as the covering sheath for the T-600 Terminator, which made it easy to be spotted by the Resistance.
The T-800 Infiltrator was the first truly successful Infiltrator unit, consisting of living tissue over a metal endoskeleton. Such Infiltrator features every human feature, including hair, blood, tear, sweat and bad breath. Some of the units can even highly mimic human emotion and behaviors, such as Carl.
Later, Skynet developed new series of the Infiltrator based on mimetic polyalloy, allowing the units to impersonate any person molecularly sampled by physical contact. The first Infiltrator series with mimetic polyalloy is the T-1000 Terminator and its variants, such as T-1001 and T-XA. Those series are entirely composed of mimetic polyalloy, so they are capable of altering its form and appearance into any person or object of similar volume.
Infiltrator Series from various timelines
In the Rise of the Machines timeline, Skynet created the T-X Terminatrix, which used mimetic polyalloy as outer sheath over an advanced metal endoskeleton that featured various onboard weapons, such as plasma weaponry and flamethrower. In the Dark Fate timeline, Legion applied a similar design concept to develop Rev-9, an Infiltrator made of a carbon-based endoskeleton covered by mimetic polyalloy, able to separate into two units. Rev-9 featured a more convincing human behavior mimicry.
The T-799 "Eve" was the first Infiltrator prototype with living tissue over a metal endoskeleton in The New John Connor Chronicles timeline.
In the Salvation timeline, Skynet used the research from Cyberdyne Systems to create T-H Hybrid Human as the Infiltration Prototype before it could develop the Terminator Resistance Infiltrator Prototype (T-RIP). Near the end of Future War, Skynet developed New Terminator, which was able to mimic human emotion, and even thinking about the concept of aesthetics.
Infiltrator series
Specialized Infiltrator
Additional research was put forward into increasingly-organic Terminators able to more efficiently evade detection and infiltrate human organizations, such as the TS-300 Stealth Terminator created by MIR, the T-900, and the I-950 Infiltrator.
TS-300 Stealth Terminator
TS-300
- Main article: TS-300
Additional to the ceramic endoskeleton mimicking human weight and structure for scans, the TS-300 Stealth Terminator uses personality transfer software called "Stealth Infiltrator Personality" to create undetectable one-off copies of real human beings. The TS-300 is equipped with the EM sensor masking/stealth unit which enables it to defeat other electronic detection systems as well.
T-900 Infiltrator
T-900 (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
- Main article: T-900
Despite being designed without the ceramic endoskeleton, the T-900 Infiltrator from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles timeline is able to copy and possess the personality, along with the memory, from the target for replacement. In addition, it can highly mimic human behaviors and emotions.
I-950 Infiltrator
I-950
- Main article: I-950
Unlike other Terminators, the I-950 Infiltrator from T2 Trilogy timeline 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 the 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.
T-H Hybrid Human
T-H
- Main article: T-H
In Salvation timeline, Skynet developed T-H Hybrid Human by transferring the brain and organs from a human body to an endoskeleton from the R&D left by Cyberdyne Systems. Thus, a T-H possesses every aspect of a human and is utilized as an Infiltration Prototype.
New Terminator
New Terminators
- Main article: New Terminator
In Salvation timeline, Skynet developed New Terminators from T-800. A New Terminator features more human emotion and behaviour mimicry than its predecessor, even capable of lying or discussing, debating with humans.
T-3000 Terminator
T-3000
- Main article: T-3000
Near the end of the war, Skynet tried to create a new breed of Infiltrator, known as the T-3000, made of humans transformed through exposure to a type of machine phase matter. All of the converted humans went insane and died, however, but Skynet successfully converted John Connor into one T-3000. It had abilities similar to a T-1000 while still retaining his own memory, knowledge and personality, though loyal to Skynet, of his human self, making him able to perfectly blend in with humans. It proved to be nearly impossible to destroy as well.
Non-humanoid Infiltrators
- In The Terminator comics series published by NOW Comics, Skynet created Big Bad Wolf, an Infiltrator based on wolf.
- In the comic Terminator: Revolution, Skynet dispatched Dire Wolf, a powerful wolf-type Terminator, to destroy the T-Infinity.
- According to the comic The Terminator: The Dark Years, Skynet tried a new type of infiltration network using rat robots. John Connor discovered that Skynet was not only studying rats but all sorts of animals, even humans.
- In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles episode "Allison from Palmdale", a similar program may be in play with the reveal that Skynet has captives, small apes, bears, and tigers in an Infiltrator interrogation and production facility on an aircraft carrier.
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Notes
- In at least one timeline, the T-799 is the first Terminator with living tissue over a metal endoskeleton instead of the T-800.
- In the unofficial film Terminator II, a "Replicant" is a cyborg with many similarities to Infiltrators from the mainstream Terminator series.
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
References
Infiltrator Series
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