Time Displacement Equipment

As part of the huge arsenal available to it, Skynet also controls the Time Displacement Equipment. In Laymen’s Terms, Skynet has its own time machine. Hacking into video data feeds from Skynet's security monitors; we have been able to grasp a basic concept of how the TDE functions.

Located within Skynet's main complex in the Navajo Mountain, the TDE is reached by a huge freight elevator which leads deep into the bowels of the building, descending at a 45-degree angle into a concrete lined tunnel. At the bottom of the elevator there are huge vault-like doors open to reveal a chamber the size of a high-school gym and consists totally of machine surfaces. Wafer-circuit terminals are stacked everywhere, stretching from floor to ceiling, and complex configurations of cabling run beneath panels in the floor. Three enormous chrome rings, one inside the other, are suspended in a circular hole in the centre of the room's floor. These rings float freely in a humming electromagnetic field.

Once co-ordinates are fed into the machine and it is set in motion, the rings begin to move, slowly rotating around each other on different axis like some form of complex gyroscope. The floor begins to split open, like wedges in a pie which then begin to pull back from the centre. The rings begin to spin faster, suspended in space in the middle of the receding floor wedges. The rings then begin to descend, dropping into an unbelievably vast circular space. This is the biaxial node of the time-field generator. The rings rotate at a tremendous velocity, blurring from sight, as an energy charge builds up, causing small electrical sparks to spit out from the generator walls, searing the ionized air. Lightning then begins to arc across the vast room, until eventually there is a blinding flash and space from the two different time periods are displaced - they swap with each other.

 

In order for this time travel to occur, the subject must be a living organism (or must be surrounded by living tissue) in order to generate the bioelectric field needed for the TDE to operate. The subject must also be injected with amphetamines, and smeared with a thick, bluish, sour smelling super conducting jelly so the time-field will follow its outline.

It has come to our attention Skynet is able to send T-1000 Series Terminators back through time, but as they do not possess living tissue, we are at a loss to explain how they can be transported. Current theory states either the T-1000 is capable of generating a synthetic bioelectric field, or Skynet grows a synthetic flesh pod, or cocoon, around the T-1000 especially to send it through time. Once through, the T-1000 would rip out of this cocoon and begin its mission.

 

It is not known exactly how this TDE works; we do know the process creates large quantities of faster-than-light tachyon particles. The execution of the TDE causes huge power drains to Skynet’s operating systems and can cause unprotected electric circuits within a 100 meter diameter to fuse, so it is rarely used. The process by which Skynet can transport people, or battle units, back in time is known as "chronoportation".