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.[1]
- 1981
- Dennis Reese is born
- May, 1984
- February 28, 1985
- John Connor is born with Kyle Reese as his father.[4]
- Cyberdyne starts researching and developing of robot technology and from the parts of the terminator.[5]
- Sarah was placed at a mental institution after trying to blow up a computer factory and telling about the soon to come, Judgment Day.[5]
- John are taking care of by the foster family Todd and Janelle Voight.[5]
- June 8, 1995
- 03:14:00 The terminator T-800 arrives to protect John Connor.[6]
- 04:58:00 The terminator T-1000 arrives to kill John Connor.[6]
- The terminator T-800 succeeds to protect John Connor, destroys the terminator T-1000 and releases Sarah Connor from the mental institution.[5]
- Death of Miles Dyson, the Cyberdyne scientist destined to become the creator of Skynet[5]
- Sarah and John destroy the remaining parts and the terminator T-800.[5]
- Sarah and John hide from the government in Paraguay.[7]
- Sarah collects weapons and train 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.[7]
- 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.[7]
- 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 adn 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 42) 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.[8]
- Skynet sends a terminator T-1000 back in time to kill John Connor.[9]
- Skynet sends the Serena Burns unit back in time to insure its Genesis.[10]
- John Connor asks for a volunteer and sends back Kyle Reese (age 23), to protect Sarah.[8]
- John Connor orders Snog to reprogram a captured T-800 to send back to protect his younger self in 1995.[9]
- Sarah Connor is still alive at this time, aged 64.
Continuity
References
- ↑ Note that according to the T3:DVD special features, a Terminator 2: Judgment Day dialog reference, and a "Pilot" on screen reference, she was actually born in late 1965.
- According to a coffin in a mausoleum Sarah Connor was born in 1959. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Terminator
- ↑ The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- ↑ The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and in the Skynet Database menu section, on the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, DVD Special Feature
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Date and time stated by "Terminator Timeline", Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, DVD Special Feature
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 T2: Infiltrator
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 The Terminator, T2: The Future War
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Terminator 2: Judgment Day, T2: The Future War
- ↑ T2: The Future War