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The T-600 from The Terminator: Future Shock
The Terminator, Series T-600[1] (sometimes T-600 Model[2] or 600 Series[3]) is a Terminator series mass-produced by Skynet starting in 2016.[4] The Series 600 Terminators serve as early Infiltrators featuring titanium alloy endoskeletons which were sometimes covered in rubber skin.[3][2] As a result of their rubber skin covering, Resistance fighters could easily spot the T-600s in the field.
Specification
The T-600 is a human sized Infiltrator that heralded Skynet's shift from the use of Non-Humanoid Hunter Killers to the Humanoid Hunter Killer Unit that would become known as a Terminator. "Dungeons & Dragons"
They were mass-produced humanoid battle units manufactured by Skynet from the original designs and test models constructed by Cyberdyne Systems Corporation. Standing almost six feet tall and weighing almost 800 lbs, the T-600's endoskeleton is very powerful and can lift objects almost five times its own weight or punch through concrete and metal with no damage to its reinforced servos. The T-600 Series is capable of running at a constant speed of almost 60 km/h (37 mp/h), with short bursts of up to 75 km/h (46 mp/h). However, these bursts of speed tax the servos and the joints of the leg assemblies.
Due to the lack of technological advancement at the time of their conception and the nature of Skynet's logic, the Series 600 Terminator is fabricated with a smooth latex rubber skin to hide its mechanics rather than the living tissue that would be used by the successor Series 800 Terminator. This fact makes the Series 600 Terminators easy to recognize and thus disable. However, the rubber skin was certainly effective in cases of limited visibility.
The Series 600 were the Infiltrators that triggered the design of the Series 700 Terminator which evolved into the Series 800 Terminator.
Design
Essentially the Series 600 Terminator can be considered a streamlined and lightweight version of the T-500 Terminator, with improvements to its CPU and a complete redesign of the head to allow for a near human look and working jaw. This design carried over to the successors of the unit, such as T-800. This was probably because the human-like endoskeleton made it easier for the living flesh covering of later Terminators to actually look like there was actually a human skeleton beneath, unlike with previous, bulkier models which might make the covering bulge or droop in improbable places.
Notes
Due to the general fluidity of timelines when time travel becomes involved, the chronology differs between the various Terminator storylines.
For example, in the original timeline of The Terminator, Skynet was activated in 1997, where as in the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Terminator Salvation timeline, the Judgment Day was delayed due to which activation of Skynet was moved to post-2000 period (such as 2004 or 2011), albeit with a compressed rate of Terminator development. Thus, the difference between the T-600 in the original timeline, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the Terminator Salvation could be a result of the alternation of the timeline.
Behind the Scenes
- Both The Terminator and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles mention the T-600, with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles episode "Dungeons & Dragons" actually showing a T-600[5] in the films or television series for the first time in Terminator franchise.
Known units
Appearances
- Films
- The Terminator (Mentioned only)
- Comics
- The Terminator: 2029 (Mentioned only)
- Games
- The Terminator: Future Shock (First appearance)
- The Terminator: Dawn of Fate (Mentioned only)
- Novels
- T2: Infiltrator (Mentioned only)
- Dark Futures
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (novel) (Mentioned only)
- Terminator Dreams
- Terminator Hunt
- Television
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Season 1
- "Heavy Metal" (Mentioned only)
- "Dungeons & Dragons"
- Season 2
- Season 1
Quotes
The Rubber Skin in The Terminator Collectible Card Game.
- 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
- John: That's coltan; if that's what you're made of, no wonder you're so dense.
- Cameron: Not density, heat resistance. T-600 models had a titanium alloy endoskeleton, but it was vulnerable to heat. Coltan alloys have a much higher melting point.
- "Heavy Metal"
References
- ↑ The Terminator: Future Shock
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Heavy Metal"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Terminator
- ↑ The video game tie in for Terminator Salvation takes place in 2016 and states that the T-600 is new.
- ↑ Confirmed by one of the producers.[citation needed]
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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