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Originally Posted by Sumac
In T1 Kyle says that no-one knew who had started a war, until somehow army of cyborgs appeared out of thin air. So humans couldn't start resistance, since they didn't even know who they were supposed to fight against at the time.
Likewise, Skynet might have bought a time, but then what? Who will create supply lines? Repair and built power plants and factories? All of those was supposed to be maintained by humans, if we go by an original T1/T2 canon. Even by T3/T4 canons. There were neither humanoid machines nor automated factories at the start of the war. At least none of it was mentioned in the movies themselves.
Even Skynet taking human into slavery is not working, since who actually going to hunt and round up humans? Who will build those labor camps and assembly lines in the first place? Tanks? Jet fighters?
I understand what Cameron was going for, but Terminator universe is not very well thought off.
I can headcanon all of this in 5 minutes, but it won't count for anything, sadly.
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It'd basically have to be the T-1s and mini HKs from T3 doing all of the heavy lifting. Which is... hard to imagine for sure, in 2004 when it is set, and even harder during the original timeline when we're talking 1997. Though even if key military installations were bombed by the Russians or whatnot, there'd still be bunkers deep down intact with redundancy backup power. Like, we have this right now. And in the Terminator universe, T3 said SkyNET was tied into all of them. So it'd just really take one with the ability to produce stuff (like tanks, or basic machinery) and probably some T-1s and SkyNET coordinating to get some stuff done. Which wouldn't happen fast. But possible.
It's the humans into TechCOM stuff I have trouble wrapping my brain around. They all just got nuked and have no idea there's about to be a machine uprising... I guess they just cluster into radioactive survival clusters until the machines started showing up taking slaves.