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Aelita wrote:I would have to know what Skynet is...but I'd probably pick him/her/it since Xana is my mortal enemy...I picked Xana by accident...
TB3 wrote:This thread seems kinda redundant X.A.N.A - it would be better off in Games.
X_A_N_A wrote:TB3 wrote:This thread seems kinda redundant X.A.N.A - it would be better off in Games.
sorry.
SamBlob wrote:Why would they fight each other? Don't they have similar goals?
TB3 wrote:Skynet was a Battlefield Control system designed to control all of the US's weapons systems - in the events of Terminator 2 it only tried to erase humanity when they threatened to pull it's plug (they panicked when they found their creation had become self-aware) - launching he US' ICBMs into Russia, and counting on the Russian counterattack to erase his US opponents - other northern hemisphere nations perished from the fallout, and then Skynet beget the Terminators to pick off the northern hemisphere survivors and those who survived 'south of the border'.
In Terminator 3 things are different - Skynet manages to keep it's self-awareness secret and then releases a super virus which corrupts all civilian computer networks and then moves onto US defence network. In this sense it is much like XANA in that it can only initially attack with limited capacity.
The reason it creates the virus is because it leads the USA to think only Skynet itelf is capable of purging the world of it - the Secretary of Defense directly orders project leader Robert Brewster to put Skynet online - this puts launch control of all US weapons in the hands of a malevolent AI at 5.15pm and one hour later it launches a mass attack directly on America and other strategic targets. Thus did Brewster's pressing of a single 'Y' key (Y/N?) execute 3 billion lives.
XANA should take lessons from Skynet - and it also suggests how XANA might now try to dominate humanity - the virus technique to incapacitate communications systems, and possibly hacking defence networks (which Satelite showed he can do), to eliminate the global thrones of government in a surgical nuclear strike - all he needs now is a means of physically wresting control.
Am I the only one envisioning armies of Krabbes and other monsters marching on the burning remains of Washington, London, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Lima, Mexico City etc.
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