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Originally Posted by Sumac
Stop this redneck fear-mongering.
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I don't think Barkworm is that at all. He's on the other side. But maybe he's learned a thing or two over the years.
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Originally Posted by Sumac
Funny thing - to my knowledge, NO fiction set in Terminator universe had ever elaborated how the **** Skynet got his cyborg army in a post-apocalyptic world, with infrastructure ruined.
Come to think of it for more than two minutes - in original canon, Skynet starts his nuclear attack almost immediately after gaining sentience. At this point he only has generic tanks and jet fighters and maybe some other non-humanoid machines at his disposal.
Nuclear attack destroys not only majority of human militaries (which is debatable, but whatever), but also powerlines and power plants, supply routes, factories and the like, essentially leaving Skynet with no power and materials to build ANYTHING.
How he is gonna rebuild all of it? No-one knows, since tanks and jet fighters are maybe good for killing remaining humans, but they can not build factories or repair power plants (not to mention, where Skynet will get energy, assuming nuclear attack shutdowns most of the power grid and destroys major power plants, meaning they need to rebuild for scratch, which means you need materials and supply routes to deliver them).
Effectively Skynet nuclear attack will hurt Skynet much more than humans, ironically since it will leave Skynet with no means to wage a further war, no energy or materials for it, while humanity will continue to exist, since they don't need energy in the same capacity as Skynet.
TL;DR
Nuclear war waged by Skynet was Cameron's allegory for the potential Hot War between USA and USSR (not to mention looks good in a movie) and it never made sense in universe. If anything, Skynet would have been much more effective, if he created a deadly virus or a neurotoxin. It would left infrastructure intact and it would spelt the doom for the most of the population.
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It's not a bad question. For all I know there's novels and comics about this stuff, but head canon... the criss-crossing nukes happen, bombing everyone and everything into oblivion. Then both sides are bought time. The humans to regroup in small pockets into TechCOM, and the machines in identifying like nuclear plants untouched by the devastation or hydro-electric dams and such. Then the crude assembly lines start rolling, like we saw in Salvation. Then by the time the humans are even organized enough to do anything at all, the machines are up and running in decent numbers. But yeesh... it's hard to imagine that happening, mostly on the human side.