The Terminator (Dynamite) timeline

The The Terminator (Dynamite) timeline is the timeline featured in the The Terminator comic series by Dynamite Comics.

Timeline

1889

• A T-800, the tenth model sent during Operation Family Tree, arrives by accident at this time and is somehow destroyed.

1944

• A T-800 arrives in Stalback, Poland, with the mission to kill Soviet prisoner Masha Alekseev from the Nazi prisoner camp Stalag 1-A. The Terminator fails its mission, and SS forces recover his CPU.

1961

• A T-800 attacks the Soviet submarine S-353, commanded by Captain Masha Alekseev, in search of the missing chip. The Terminator fails its mission due to undercover Resistance agents, resulting in the loss of the submarine and presumably the chip.

1965

• Two T-800 units hijack a Gemini capsule at Cape Canaveral and attempt to commandeer a secret defense satellite. They are defeated through the sacrifice of Phillips, one of the astronauts sent into orbit to rescue the first capsule.

1971

• Harper Duggan first runs into Terminators.

1976

• A T-600 arrives in Austin, Texas, during one of Skynet's early time travel experiments. The malfunctioning unit stumbles into traffic and is immediately struck by a semi-truck.
• A T-800 arrives in Saigon, Vietnam, with the objective of killing Private Edward Duggan but fails the mission.

1979

• After escaping from the T-800 that disrupted their wedding, Harper and Penny Duggan rent a plane in Seattle and flee towards Alaska. The pursuing Terminator attempts to board the aircraft but is dropped into a lake.

1987

• A T-800 is sent back in time and gets a job as a security guard in Cyberdyne Systems.

1997

• A time-displaced Resistance team tries to destroy Cyberdyne Systems in the eve of Judgment Day but is killed by the undercover Terminator.
• Skynet activates within its Colorado bunker and immediately identifies humans as a high threat. It then launches its nuclear missiles at several densely populated cities.
• Edward Duggan witnesses Judgment Day from the window of his hospital room in Los Angeles.

1998

• Harper Duggan leaves his refuge in Alaska and becomes one of the first men to lead the Resistance against Skynet.

2001

• Major Harper Duggan and his team run into a new threat, a massive HK-Tank. Harper Duggan is presumed killed in action. The only survivor of the mission is one John Connor.

2012

• A Resistance patrol, which includes a member of the Duggan family, encounters a T-600 infiltrator that they recognize and terminate.

2017

• A Resistance base is destroyed by a combined force of Hunter-Killers and T-600s.

2018

• The Terminator from 1979 resurfaces in Alaska, still pursuing its objectives, and kills Harper and Penny Duggan.

2019

• Skynet sends tens of T-600 units with synthetic skin back in time, but all the experiments fail. During a Resistance assault on its Time Displacement Complex, Skynet discovers that living tissue is the key to successful time displacement.

2021

• Skynet tries sending a T-600 covered in living tissue back in time, but the endoskeleton's manufacture causes it fail catastrophically.

2025

• Skynet discontinues the Series 600 and introduces the Series 800.
• At some point between 2025 and 2029, Skynet initiates Operation Family Tree.

2029

• After a systems reboot, Skynet discontinues Operation Family Tree and decides to focus its efforts on a single objective: Sarah Connor.

Continuity notes

• The death of Major Harper Duggan has two different dates, 2018 in The Terminator #1 and 2014 in The Terminator #8. This timeline assumes that, unless this was due to a simple edition error, the date changed due to the efforts of Operation Family Tree and adopts 2018, the one actually seen in the comics, as the final date.