Aurora

The term "Test Number 808" should not be confused with T-808.

Aurora is a female Terminator with long, brown hair.

History[]

Terminator: The Burning Earth[]

Aurora Model,^[1] Test Number 808,^[2] was a Terminator that appeared as a Caucasian female with seductive pink lips and a dark beauty spot on her left cheek and long wavy brown hair flowing to the middle of her back. She wore dark sunglasses, a mid-riff length black leather jacket with a white halter top beneath, skin tight black leather pants with high heeled thigh-high boots, fingerless fishnet gloves and a large belt with spikes (much like a gruesome dog collar on a colossal scale).

Aurora showed rather unusual behavior for a machine, such as playing with her victims while showing a kind of flirty behavior when killing as she used her belt to pin human prisoners to a wall and then kiss them as they die. She has also shown to have fast reflexes, being able to intercept an overhead swing from a metal pipe, wrench it away from her opponent, and then quickly throw it at another target. At another point in time, Aurora was able to quickly catch a plasma grenade thrown across a room.

Used for testing humans "survival adaptability", Skynet compiles the data gained from monitoring the Aurora Model undergoing structured battles with humans in various situations to calculate probable Termination times, compared with stimulus reaction times. Once the test is complete, Skynet is able to deactivate Aurora.

Aurora was destroyed in a plasma grenade explosion during the raid on Skynet in 2041.

The Terminator RPG[]

Main article: T-808/RPG

"Aurora" is the name of Model 101A, based on Aurora Brynn, which applied to several Terminator, such as T-850 and T-808.

The T-808 "Aurora" was designated as Probationary Test Unit. Due to its series' misinterpretation of human psychology, Aurora was unstable, cruel and sadistic. She was capable of breaking humans in several ways just to see how long it takes them to bleed out. However as most of the T-808, the majority of her computing power was devoted to various torture techniques, it lacks the basics in ground war tactics making her useless in combat. ^[3]

Notes[]

On the cover of the second issue of The Burning Earth, the sunglasses on the Aurora show a reflection of the letter-number combination N-I-L-8, a pun or sort of an abbreviation of "annihilate". Alex Ross would later use this as the name of a robot in his "Kingdom Come" series for DC Comics.
As a fan of Terminator franchise, Brandon Graham wrote a preface for the trade paper back edition of Terminator: The Burning Earth published in 2013. In the preface, Aurora is referred as a T-808. Later in 2022, The Terminator RPG reused the concept of Aurora from The Burning Earth and gave it the designation "T-808".