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time travel - After T-2, why not send back another T-800?


So you've failed once, so you send back your shiniest poly-mimetic alloy terminator, but it fails because the resistance sent back a reprogrammed T-800! You know, or could reason that the T-800 would have to have encountered the targets of the T-1000, and they would have become familiar with each other as they evaded your near perfect killing machine.


Why not send back another with real infiltration programming (the T-800 is supposedly an infiltration unit, no?) so that it spends some time getting Connor to grow familiar with him, fooling him into thinking they are chased and then when he least expects it, the unit turns on him.


Is Skynet not capable of thinking in this out of the box manner? Did it not have enough T-800s to send back? Was it just designed by a physicist, and thus brute-forced every problem?



Answer



This was not a plan which Skynet had the ability to leisure over. ISTR in the book they mention that the building which had the time displacement equipment (TM) was in the process of being stormed when they did this plan, which is how the resistance was able to send people back too. As soon as they had been sent Connor destroyed the equipment (as explained, I think, by Reece in T1).


The order of events was Skynet sent two terminators back, one at each time when they had information on their targets. The resistance broken into the room and John (with his advanced knowledge due to Sarah's tapes) arranged a defender to sent back at each point, gave Reece a message for Sarah and then destroyed the building. From the moment Skynet turned the machine on to the moment John blew it up could easily be half an hour or less.


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