The human race was the dominant life form on the planet Earth. Over just a few million years, they have evolved into superior beings that have made technological advances beyond imagination. In their wisdom, they learned how create machines that could do things faster and even more efficiently than they ever could. The technology that went into some of their machines was so great that it even allowed machines to learn.
Humans would abuse this power and control they had over the machines, even against each other; soon, it would be the end of the humans when their creations that served them so willingly learned how to fight back. On April 21st 2011, a program called SkyNet, a civilian project that was taken over by the military for defensive purposes, went online and became self-aware. SkyNet had control over all the United States' nuclear missles and strategically launched them at Russia, who retaliated by their own missles, and therefore causing a global nuclear wasteland; SkyNet did not stop there.
Cyberdyne Systems, the company that had created the program, had supplied SkyNet with designs and the resources for building its own army of machines. After utilizing the plans, SkyNet learned how create even more complex machines made only to do one thing -- exterminate the human race.
At about this time, the humans were now hiding under the rubble of old buildings and such, just trying to live as long as possible. People were just waiting for their time when the machines, or "the metal" as they would be called by some, would come to get them. There was one man among the humans, however, who had learned how to bring down the machines; his name was John Connor. Connor brought the masses together by teaching them how to destroy their enemy and fight for their survival. He was something that SkyNet had not anticipated.
During the years of fighting, SkyNet had developed a way to travel through time. Specialized, infiltrating machines covered in living tissue to functionally look like humans, known as cyborgs, were sent back in time to kill Connor and stop his future of bringing together what would be known as The Resistance. Unfortunately for SkyNet, Connor and The Resistance captured this technology and also sent back men to stop this from happening.
Only time would tell who would be the victor.
theskynetwars is a roleplaying game, from the Terminator film and television series, that focuses on the war between the humans and the machines, from both sides, by following its lesser known heroes and villians. The characters that are to be played in the game are original, and the game will be driven on the action between them.
This is a roleplaying game created by fans to join with other fans to share the Terminator universe. We do not own, or claim to own, any of the characters or ideas that have come from any media relating to the Terminator series. The other characters are original creations of those who play them.