Writers’ Strike

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

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.

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.