Shuttle/Docking Bay [1]

[deep_space_final]

This is your standard shuttlebay and/or docking station. Going somewhere? Coming from somewhere? Here's where you can come and go, leave your ships, and the like.

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[csm_101]

T-800 had noticed the oddities that would be considered out of place for the environment. Queries have been logged for appropriate personnel or until he gains access to the computer mainframe of this terminal. If mankind said that the Terminators did not have a personality; that machines could not form habits or personal attachments they would have been wrong. And John would have likely been unsurprised that the first person T-800 approaches is a person working on a motorcycle.

"Negative, this technology does not exist in 1995." There is a mark of silence that might have been considered a little strange, but T-800 is assessing both items before him. "T-800. Cyberdyne System Model 101. I must reunite with John Connor and terminate T-1000."

Yeah, he's great at Human Interactions.

[forgottendecade]

It was unknown what the personnel would say, though from Joji's own questions, he was told that 'some items just can't go into a room where people might have to live, don't you know?' followed up by a look that suggested that he really crawled out of a backward planet. The main terminal was easily accessed and there were a few encryptions on some data lines, but he didn't bother to hack them since it had been pretty explanatory as to what they were guarding. After some poking around with them, he decided to work on the malfunctioning trans-dimensional key on his motorcycle without any help.

"1995?" he replied, blinking as a few more figures flashed across his scanners before he pulled the set off and rubbed his eyes. The figures did not make sense, especially for the advanced fusion his readings had gave him. "Last I recall, Earth was at the year 2012, but I'm sure that we're beyond that point. The dimensional shift is off-balanced, and I wouldn't be surprised if Space/Time had fractured in the process."

He wasn't that good with Human Interactions as well, though it could be blamed for being a scientist.

[csm_101]

He was not a scientist. That might have been obvious. All T-800 wanted right now was data. Where was he. When was he. How was he. He had been switched from read-only days ago, adjusting the mission was not the problem.

He looks around a moment. 2012 was after the nuclear fallout according to the time he has been brought back to but that action alone changed the continuum. There was no possible way this man was from that past. What he says makes it more clear that he was not but he must inquire.

"Affirmative. I was sent back to 1995 to protect the child that would grow up to lead the resistance against the machines. T-1000 was sent to destroy him." A moment. "Do you know who John Connor is."

[forgottendecade]

That explained it. Joji tossed his goggles into his tool kit and tapped the silvery haze floating around the engine. There was a snap as the haze suddenly vanished, causing a crazed greenish glow settling along the lines of his right arm before it vanished. He stood up and tilted his head so he was looking at the T-800, studying the almost human facade coating the machine his sensors said was there.

"I do not." A pause as he thought of one thing - Blame it all on Tsukasa - before dismissing that idea. From where he stood, there were a lot of time meddlers bumbling about this station. One more would only be normal by this point of the equation.

"Your reality is part of several that manage to co-exist along the same boundaries of others. Think of them all potential Earths, each one with a story that marks it differently than the next. This station seems to exist at a crossroads of sorts in which several stories collide. On the bright side, your story will be there when you get back. On the other side, it may take a while for the dimensional shifts to bring you back to where you came from."

[csm_101]

T-800 spends some time listening and reassessing already gathered data. Scanners observe the technology a part of this otherwise human man before his optics turn back to the bike and then to Joji again.

His programming only gives him enough to react to a situation that is out of place by accessing a new alternative method to achieving the end result. He had guidance and someone to learn from when his mission was to protect Connor. Having no sequence to follow is a difficult thing to register for a Terminator. Being left entirely to his own. It is possible, however. T-8XX's self-aware re-write abilities are highly advanced. Skynet will recognize this flaw in the T-8XX series and initiate their termination.

He has that information already.

"How have you collected this data." He inquires in the midst of re-writing his current mission perametres.

[forgottendecade]

Joji was a little surprised at how easily that the T-800 was taking the information, but realized it was possible that it simply did not care. He took a rag and started wiping off the grease and grime from his hands.

"I am a scientist," he said and then made a slight snort at his claim. Depending on which world he was on, the flimsy from DaiShocker was probably not worth anything.

"The organization I worked for had cataloged nine separate worlds outside of our own. Each one of those worlds were almost exact replicas of our Earth save for slight changes. We developed a... method to access those worlds so we can explore the differences, but in my travels across them, I have a feeling that ten worlds are just the beginning of the infinite possibilities. I have yet to find anything that does not cast light on a possibility of multiple Earths."

[csm_101]

He doesn't know 'care'. He knows mission and the completion of the mission or the alteration of a mission if the mission has gone off course or failed. He is a machine. He is very much a machine and it will become extraordinarily more painfully obvious that he is not anywhere near human the longer you're around him.

"Time is a variable." A complex equation but an equation and it was almost humorous, if he knew what humour was, that while mankind was so fluid in their functioning the world and the universe was a system- a series of equations.

"I am a terminator." Guess what that means! "Your bike. I can fix it."

[forgottendecade]

That wouldn't surprise him. 'Care' had taken a long while for Joji to understand and even in his case, that came about only if he really had interacted with the people for any length of time. As it was, he found the whole thing ridiculous.

"Space is a fixed point but when you move Time, the point Space becomes fluid in relative notations." Thus the ability to monitor and mimic the designs and powers of Riders, or even to craft replicas from the particles floating in the air when the proper sequence was reached. It was so simple and yet no one but him managed to create the two Drivers that worked off of that principle.

"So you end the function of those that you were tasked to end? That seems like a waste of a potential." Because there was so much that could be done with someone like the T-800. "You can?"

[csm_101]

Mankind is not naturally a logic based organism. In his time with them he has not yet decided whether this means anything more than a character trait. Skynet believed it made them weaker which may be true to an extent but they have survived this long. T-800 has decided, on gathered data, there is something more complex about mankind that makes them valuable, and resilient, and it is why they will win.

"Correct. I was created on an assembly line by a complex machine designated Skynet. My series and model was created for infiltration and termination of mankind." He steps toward the bike. He's not a gentle creation but at least he knows what he is doing.

"Our CPU's were created with advanced learning program codes in order to better infiltrate the resistance. Skynet will realize this as a flaw as more of my series type joins mankind against the machines and will initiate our termination. I was reprogrammed by John Connor and sent back to protect his young self against a more advanced prototype sent to terminate him."