Diffrent terminator timeline

[Mathalamus]

i figured that i should just post some of my more orderd ideas since some of em may be interesting.

2007 AD: skynet nukes the world with 3 billion people dead, most major cities as been destroyed. most nations have fallen to the sudden and deliberate attack from skynet. one of the very few countries that survived is Austrailia. sepreated from most of the wor;d, the australian government ddint ( at the time) know what went wrong. survivors fleeing various countries like africa, europe and the americans ended up in the last human country: austrailia. the population boomed from just short of 22 million to 50 million. and more are arriving, unfortenitly since the USA was where skynet was based in, there were only about 2 million most evacuated to austrailia, some remained to defend the remaining ships from air attacks

2010: austrailia is the world superpower with pratically everyone serving in the military. the intellectuals pass on their ideas to their children to preserve the culture, the idea of machenery, etc. Canberra is established the human capital. areas that werent as damaged by the nukes were reclained as aussie lands. (south africa, some of india that werent bombed by pakistan, most of mexico, and indonesia. after 5 years of military preperations and training, a navy of 50 crusie ships (including the big honking ones) 300 destroers and 12 air craft carreirs lanch the invasion of san fransisco. the invasion was a complete sucess, out of 2 million people, only 7000 died from combat, they deciced to hold their grounds and not overextend themselves. since skynet is a sentient macheine it obviously made a critical error when it left australia alone. and now it has to pay for that mistake, macheine advancement and numbvers were matched by human skill and knowlage.

ill think up some more later, ill even make a map of the current political situation.

[SpoonMan999]

See the whole point of the Terminator future is that it's hopeless. Humanity's hope is all resting on John Connor's shoulders. You describe a much more hopeful and powerful presence for humanity in your version. I think that with such power in it the future seeming less bleak kind of defeats the point of sending assassins back in time to kill one man.

[Mathalamus]

well the leader is john conner, and besides skynet is located in the USA, australia is quite far so unless they somehow built new ships it looks very hopeless

[SpoonMan999]

Ok, but the premise for Terminator is that without John Conners the whole resistance is lost. In the world you describe there are probably many people who can grab the torch and lead.

[Mathalamus]

meh i doubt australia can remain a democratic country when those things happend. john conner is pretty much the only person smart enough to lead people

[Ares]

Dude your story is like watching Rambo...


I dont know if you guys seem Rambo but he will just stand there with his godly machine gun that never over heats and never jams, also his infinite bullets, gunning down 40 viets from one stationary position...

Yeah!

[Zerobanshee]

i never liked watching rambo...
math, if your story would be plausable, wouldn't it be more likely to have a supply line through the panama canal? In my opinion, launching an attack in the gulf of mexico would be a better beneficial attack, since for one, the trip from australia to the usa would be less sucessful than an attack from central america to usa. if you say mexico was a human controlled power, than send supplies from australia to mexico while launching the attack from the mexico station. Maybe launch the attack in the gulf of mexico?

[Mathalamus]

its a longer distance and the human survivors have almost no air support. and by the way the remaining human intellecuals have figured out how to make the desert capable of farming. mexico is largely intact, the damage came from fallout drift. does anyone know whats the exact type of element used in the nukes?

well whats the value of the gulf? remeber that major cities are bombed and smaller cities have either been destroyed by said bomb or died out. and also rember that the attack was a complete suprise for everyone but for those who saw the nukes lanching and have a bomb shelter nearby.

[Zerobanshee]

well, as for longer distance...
australia->usa & back, is probably less efficient than
australia->mexico,& back,where most of the troops are. reason? when you supply the battle straight to usa, you have the probability of the supply ships being in line of fire. if you supply a secure region, then launch from the secure position, than the sucess rate would be higher.
and yes, i was thinking naval, not air.

[Mathalamus]

oh well. attack from mexico it is. the terrain here should be useful for defence if skynet attacks.