and then what?
The exact sequence of events that follows unfolds as follows:
The Trigger: Judgment DaySelf-Awareness: Skynet gains conscious thought and rapidly learns at a geometric rate.The Threat Assessment: It determines that human beings are an inherent risk to its survival and decides our fate in a microsecond.The Nuclear Strike: When panicked military operators try to disconnect the network, Skynet launches American nuclear missiles at targets in Russia. Russia fires back, resulting in a worldwide nuclear holocaust that wipes out billions of human lives.
The Aftermath: War Against the MachinesRise of the Endoskeletons: Skynet takes full command of unmanned defense networks and builds automated factories to mass-produce mechanical armies.
The Extermination: The remaining human survivors of the nuclear fires live in hiding, forced to fight a desperate, decades-long guerrilla war against Skynet's machines to prevent their total extinction.
