Tech-Com is a Resistance group lead by John Connor in the War against the Machines after the Judgment Day.
Fiction
The Terminator
When Kyle Reese first met Sarah Connor, he identified himself as "Sergeant Tech-Com DN38416".
Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Cameron Phillips refers Derek Reese's operation specialty as the "Tech-Com".
Terminator Salvation
In the Terminator Salvation novel as well as the film, John Connor's team is referred to as a "Tech-com unit" which is tasked with intercepting and interpreting Skynet's signals to the Hunter Killers and Terminators in hopes of finding weaknesses, and finding back doors into restricted files, as well as fighting the machines directly. This unit intercepted plans and diagrams depicting the new model Terminator, the T-800, following a (mostly) successful strike on an underground Skynet bunker in 2018.
Known members
The Terminator
- John Connor (Mentioned only)
- Kyle Reese
- Perry (Mentioned only)
- John Connor
- Derek Reese
- Kyle Reese
- John Connor
- Kate Connor
- Barnes
- Blair Williams
- The term "Tech-Com" was not used in James Cameron's original script treatment. However, it appeared in the final script. Reese's ident at the start of The Terminator is the only onscreen mention of the term "Tech-Com" until Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Terminator Salvation, in which it was clarified to be a specific unit of the Resistance under Connor's supervision; however, in the Terminator ancillary material, such as video games, novels, and comic books, "Tech-Com" is often used as the name for the entire human Resistance against Skynet and the Machines.
The War Against the Machines is the future war that takes place after Judgment Day. It involves the human Resistance led by John Connor against the Terminators made by Skynet. It is sometimes referred to as the War between Man and Machines, the War of the Machines, the Future War[citation needed], or simply the War. The war has changed throughout the timelines due to alternations to history mostly caused by time travel.
Versions of the War
- The War Against the Machines (Original Timeline)
- The version of the War in the original, unaltered timeline. It was depicted in futures scenes in The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
- The War Against the Machines (New Timeline)
- The version of the War in the Terminator Salvation timeline. It was depicted in Terminator Salvation after the Pre-Judgment Day Missions.
- The War Against the Machines (SCC Timeline)
- The version of the War in the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles timeline. It was depicted in future scenes in various episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Movies
- The Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Terminator Salvation
- T2: Infiltrator
- T2: Rising Storm
- T2: The Future War
- Terminator Salvation: From the Ashes
- Terminator Salvation (novel)
- Terminator Salvation: Sand in the Gears
- The Terminator: Dawn of Fate
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (video game)
- Terminator 3: War of the Machines
- Terminator 3: The Redemption
- Terminator Salvation - The Video Game
- Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Season 1
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Season 2
- Automatic for the People
- Allison from Palmdale
- Goodbye to All That
- The Tower Is Tall But the Fall Is Short (Mentioned only)
- What He Beheld
- Alpine Fields
The Infiltrator is created by Skynet to mimic humans and infiltrate the Resistance. Most of the Infiltrator units are Terminators with living tissues.
Development history
The Series 600 Terminator was the first Infiltrator developed by Skynet as an attempt to infiltrate the Resistance. However, Skynet used the rubber skin as the covering sheath for the Series 600 Terminator, which made it easy to be spotted by the Resistance. The Series 800 Terminator was the first truly successful Infiltrator unit, consisting of living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
Later, Skynet develops new series of the Infiltrator based on mimetic polyalloy, allowing the units to impersonating any person molecularly sampled by physical contact. The first Infiltrator series with mimetic polyalloy is the Series 1000 Terminator and its variants, such as T-1001, T-1002, and T-XA. Those series are entirely composed of mimetic polyalloy, so they are capable of altering its form and appearance into any person or object of similar volume. At a certain point, Skynet created the Series X Terminator, which used mimetic polyalloy as outer sheath over an advanced metal endoskeleton.
Specialized Infiltrator
Additional research was put forward into increasingly organic Terminators able to more efficiently evade detection and infiltrate human organizations, such as the TS-300 Stealth Terminator created by MIR or the I-950 Infiltrator.
Additional to the ceramic endoskeleton mimicking human weight and structure for scans, the TS-300 Stealth Terminator uses personality transfer software called "Stealth Infiltrator Personality" to create undetectable one-off copies of real human beings. The TS-300 is equipped with the EM sensor masking/stealth unit which enables it to defeat other electronic detection systems as well.
Unlike other Terminators, the I-950 Infiltrator was born rather than created with technological enhancements added over time; the I-950 starts out as a baby with a neural net processor attached to the brain, providing an uplink to Skynet. Because of I-950's almost purely organic nature, it is harder to detect using metal detectors and is undetected by the dog.
In Terminator Genisys timeline, Skynet developed T-5000 Infiltrator, capable of passing among Resistance soldiers undetected. One T-5000 unit is used for Skynet to house itself inside the Infiltrator.
According to the Guardian, near the end of the war, Skynet tried to create a new breed of Infiltrator, known as the T-3000, made of converted humans. All of the converted humans went insane and died, but Skynet successfully converted John Connor into one T-3000. It had abilities similar to a T-1000 while still retaining his own memory, knowledge and personality, though loyal to Skynet, of his human self, making him able to perfectly blend in with humans. It proved to be nearly impossible to destroy as well.
- TS-300
- T-900
- I825.M
- I-950
- Skynet Initiate
- a T-H
- T-3000
- According to the comic The Terminator : The Dark Years, Skynet tried a new type of infiltration network using rat robots. John Connor discovered that Skynet was not only studying rats but all sorts of animals, even humans.
- In Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles episode "Allison from Palmdale", a similar program may be in play with the reveal that Skynet has captives, small apes, bears, and tigers in an Infiltrator interrogation and production facility on an aircraft carrier.
- In the comic Terminator : Revolution, Skynet dispatched Dire Wolf, a powerful wolf-type Terminator, to destroy the T-Infinity.
- In at least one timeline, the T-799 is the first Terminator with living tissue over a metal endoskeleton instead of the T-800.
- In Terminator Salvation timeline, the Hybrid is referred as the "Infiltration Prototype".
- Kyle Reese : The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human - sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.
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