T2 Trilogy timeline

The name or term "T2 Trilogy timeline" should not be confused with T2 Saga timeline.

The Terminator 2: Judgment Day timeline follows Terminator 2: Judgment Day timeline and leads to the events in T2 Trilogy. It is created by the destruction of the Cyberdyne Building.

The timeline established by T2: Infiltrator

The story continued from Terminator 2: Judgment Day timeline in 1995.

This timeline collects all the events from the S.M. Stirling novel trilogy begun in T2: Infiltrator, continued in T2: Rising Storm, and concluded in T2: The Future War.

• November 13, 1965
  • Sarah J. Connor is born.
• 1981
  • Dennis Reese is born
• May, 1984
  • 01:52:00 A T-800 arrives from the future to kill Sarah Connor.
  • 02:01:00 Kyle Reese arrives from the future, to protect Sarah.
  • Kyle Reese succeeds in destroying the terminator but dies himself.
  • Some parts from the terminator are left behind at the Cyberdyne facilities.
• February 28, 1985
  • John Connor is born with Kyle Reese as his father.
  • Cyberdyne starts researching and developing robot technology from the parts of the terminator.
  • Sarah was placed in a mental institution after trying to blow up a computer factory and telling about the soon to come, Judgment Day.
  • John is taken care of by foster family Todd and Janelle Voight.
• June 8, 1995
  • 03:14:00 A T-800 arrives to protect John Connor.
  • 04:58:00 A T-1000 arrives to kill John Connor.
  • The T-800 succeeds in protecting John Connor, destroying the terminator T-1000 and releases Sarah Connor from the mental institution.
  • Death of Miles Dyson, the Cyberdyne scientist destined to become the creator of Skynet.
  • Sarah and John destroy the remaining parts of the first T-800.
  • Sarah and John hide from the government in Paraguay.
  • Sarah collects weapons and trains John in warfare.^{[citation needed]}

Present day events of T2: Infiltrator commence

• 2001
  • The I-950 Serena Burns arrives from the future and infiltrates Cyberdyne.
  • John and Sarah Connor encounter Dieter von Rossbach in Paraguay.
  • Serena Burns begins creating Series 800 terminators in the present using a Secret Terminator Lab.
  • Serena Burns directs Two to secure suitable surrogates and establishes an Infiltrator creche in a remote Montana cabin.
  • Clea Bennet and Alissa are created via the I-950 parthenogenesis protocol.

Present day events of T2: Rising Storm commence

• December 2002
  • Skynet achieves sentience at the hands of John Connor, Wendy Dorset, and Clea Bennet.
  • Clea Bennet is terminated by John Connor and Dieter von Rossbach

Present day events of T2: The Future War commence

• 2003
  • Skynet begins installing remote interfaces in all machines being produced or upgraded in automated factories and begins manufacturing its mechanical armies.
• 2005
  • Judgment Day
  • Skynet begins a 2-month long rash of increasingly brutal killings, utilizing vehicles built in automated factories to cause horrific accidents.
  • The Connors identify the signs of Skynet's attack as the harbinger of the coming apocalypse. They deliver a final warning to all who may listen to flee to the wilderness and prepare for the attack.
  • En-masse uprisings of machines created in automated factories and systems under Skynet's control herd humans into cities for easier targeting.
  • Defense Computers deliver initial nuclear strikes worldwide from the limited post-cold war arsenals.
  • Full scale production of Terminators and HKs begin as automated factories are retrofitted
  • Luddite sympathizers infiltrating and operating under the guise of the Army and National Guard begin herding survivors into concentration camps for orderly extermination with controlled viral outbreaks.
• 2006
  • Sarah Connor convinces Captain Thaddeus Chu to join the Resistance with his ship, the Ohio class nuclear submarine USS Roosevelt and crew, including 100 Navy SEALs.
  • Dennis Reese marries Mary Shea, Kyle Reese is born later that year.
  • John Connor (age 21) identifies Dennis Reese (age 25), commander of the Ozark Redoubt as his grandfather when reviewing reports from resistance cells.
• 2013
  • Kyle Reese (age 7) and Mary Shea are captured by Luddite Patrol A-36 under the command of Sam Marshall (AS-783490) and delivered to a Death camp to serve as slaves.
• 2016
  • John Connor and Dennis Reese lead an assault against the Luddite extermination camp where Mary Shea and Kyle Reese are being held.
  • Kyle Reese (age 10) watches both his parents killed by a terminator during the assault on the camp. John Connor comes to him out of the smoke and says Come with me if you want to live.
  • John places Kyle in the care of Jack Brock
  • Skynet executes a Second Judgment Day, utilizing the 1/3 of the nuclear arsenal it had held in reserve.
  • Earth suffers a nuclear winter
• 2021
  • Lisa Weinbaum is captured by Skynet and incorporated into the I-950 development program
  • The Serena Burns unit is born in a Skynet Infiltrator Creche
• 2023
  • Kyle Reese (age 17) begins serving in the field for the Resistance alongside his childhood buddy, Jesse
• 2025
  • The Serena Burns unit undergoes growth acceleration and begins stage 2 development and training with the body of pre-teen.
  • John Connor gives the Picture of Sarah Connor to Sgt. Kyle Reese (age 19)
• 2028
  • The Serena Burns unit undergoes final growth acceleration and all cybernetic implants and network capability are brought fully online.
  • Serena is equipped with an internal explosive device and assigned to infiltrate the Resistance.
• 2029
  • Serena's assassination mission is revoked and she is reassigned to a temporal operation with the objective of ensuring the genesis of Skynet.
  • John Connor (age 44) leads an assault on a contested Skynet stronghold conducting temporal experiments in the Los Angeles basin for Operation Chrono
  • Skynet sends a terminator T-800 back in time to kill Sarah.
  • Skynet sends a terminator T-1000 back in time to kill John Connor.
  • Skynet sends the Serena Burns unit back in time to insure its Genesis.
  • John Connor asks for a volunteer and sends back Kyle Reese (age 23), to protect Sarah.
  • John Connor orders Snog to reprogram a captured T-800 to send back to protect his younger self in 1995.
  • Sarah Connor is still alive at this time, aged 64.