Timeline
From SarahConnor
Timeline of Events
The Terminator is a bold storyline that makes some intriguing, and complicated, statements about time travel, the future of humanity. There have been 3 wide release movies released (in 1984, 1991, and 2003) each incporating some variation of events in the timeline due to meddling from the future. There have also been official comics, graphic novels, and more released in the Terminator universe. The new TV series on Fox, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles raises some questions about how it fits in to the existing canon of past franchise releases. The director has stated that he's writing the series as if Terminator 3 'never happened'.
- Part 0 - Background: The Terminator franchise timeline
- Part 1 - Rabbithole/Pregame (Enitech and The Gardner Project) (late 2007-Jan 13)
- Part 2 - Miles Dyson: In memoriam (Jan 14-Jan 18)
- Part 3 - Red eye (Jan 18-Jan 21)
- Part 4 - Firing Canons (Jan 22-Jan 24)
- Part 5 - Resistance isn't futile (Jan 24-Jan 25)
- Part 6 - Hexed (Jan 25-Jan 28)
- Part 7 - The hunt part 2 (Jan 29-...?)
Part 0 - Terminator franchise timeline
Below is one of the best overviews I've found summarizing a possible outline of events since the franchise began. (note: it's not official, but a Terminator fan's interpretation - originally posted here by 'Kanten')
After being delayed in T2, Judgment Day occurs in 2004. With a basic army already supplied and more modern technology, Skynet makes accelerated progress in taking a majority of the planet ,and develops the time machine two years earlier circa 2027. Skynet returns to its original plan, dispatching a Terminator to 1999. Tech-Com successfully seizes the machine for a brief period and dispatches an engineer to 1963. The ripple effect eventually leads to Sarah's cancer remaining dormant. The resistance sends units to 1999 and 2007 before Skynet regains control.
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Part 1 - Rabbithole/Pregame (Enitech and The Gardner Project)
( Autumn 2007 - January 13, 2008 :: View the detailed timeline of events here )
EniTech Research Laboratories created a website to bring their latest research- The Gardner Project to the public. Their research has developed a 'tachyon camera' - a camera that takes pictures of future. A video blog on youtube raised a ruckus from people calling it fake, a hoax - but we knew better. An early blog post on their site referenced Cyberdyne, linking it to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show on Fox, which has an extended reality / viral site Takebackthefuture.com.
The tachyon camera produces pictures of tachyons (theoretical particles that travel backwards through time), photos estimated to be about 1193 days to the future; 1193 is also the number the counter of TBTF.com seems to be counting to. January 13 saw the premiere of the TV show - and the day the counter read 1193.
Pictures revealed so far by Enitech show a chaotic, destroyed future San Francisco, including newspaper headlines claiming viral outbreaks, hospitals closing, and more. We even see an image of an enormous machine clutching a school bus. These are ideas posted in response to Enitech's request for ideas for photo to take with their special camera.
Other notable events:
- - First appearance of mysterious Zoltan Gerts
- - Experimental photo of Jacob Gustar now and 3 years from now
Part 2 - Miles Dyson: In memoriam
January 14, 2008
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode 2 premieres on Fox
- Frank Bentley sent messages and posted a new comment in the Facebook group
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- New website discovered: Dysontrust.org
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 14, 2008 - Anna is worried about the future
- A plain entry displaying a photo of Anna Kies at her workstation. A mysterious piece of paper against the window appears to be a puzzle to solve - potentially Anna's personal reminder of her login for the secure page of Dysontrust.org.
January 16, 2008
- New Enitech blog entry: Jan 16, 2008 - Research partnership
- EniTech announces their partnership with Dyson Trust
- New Enitech blog entry: Jan 16, 2008 - g61a/b
- A photo of a nearby neighborhood with a regular camera shows a natural environment - the tachyon camera shows a frighteningly different scene.
January 17, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: Jan 17, 2008 - Anna Reponds.
- Anna posts a video blog complaining about the obsessing going on over the photo of her posted by Mike, she references the Somethingawful forums and the Unfiction forums by nme, and emphasizes one should 'always be worried about the future'. There are also a number of equations and words scribbled on the whiteboard behind the worried Anna.
January 18, 2008
- Anna Kies' login to Dyson Trust hacked
- The Anna's worried puzzle was solved, revealing the login to Dyson Trust's secure section, where we learn in a letter from Lawrence Kelly, about the Centurion Project - proposed to Dyson Trust by an unknown organization for support funding and support, which they rejected, but recommended forwarding to the Department of Defense (though offering their services in an advisory role).
- A second letter discussed the status of the Enitech project - the initial proposal from Dr. Bentley, based on a device that was discovered (a camera, as described later in an Enitech video). Dr. Baxter, a Dyson board member, examined the device and approved Bentley's request, making it Enitech's next R&D project (now the tachyon camera).
- The final 4 images are of what appear to be punchcards, begging to be decoded
- New Enitech blog post: Sometimes we see what we don’t want to see
- Enitech reveals more devastating images from the future of neighborhoods around San Francisco.
Part 3 - Red eye
January 18, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: Anna at the device recovery location
- Anna posts a video at the site where they found a modified camera that their team reversed engineered and which became the basis for the Gardner Project. Along with the camera were four punchcards which they believe hold the locations of four other cameras. The video is interrupted by an approaching figure in the distance, prompting the team to flee the location. On arrival at their vehicle, before they're able to get away, a threatening person appears at the driver's window, but not soon enough, and the team escapes.
January 21, 2008
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Episode 3 premieres on Fox
- New Enitech blog post: High resolution image of the attacker from Friday
- A high resolution image of the dark figure from a distance is posted for review.
- New Enitech blog post: Strange email from someone claiming to be "a member of the Resistance"
- Enitech receives a message with encrypted text, believed to be related to the still unsolved punchcards puzzle.
- The encrypted clues led to the solving of the punchcards puzzle - partially. Awaiting two more clues.
- Two camera locations have been deciphered. One in NY, and one in CA.
Part 4 - Firing Canons
January 22, 2008
- vpisteve managed to find a hidden package at the California location.
- The package is a thermos containing a number of items, including a camera with the back plate removed (likely what 'resistance device' is referring to), a battery charger, a USB cable, an empty 32MB CF memory card, and a survival multi-tool. No clues or messages were found with it or in it
- The second package has reportedly been picked up from "Lily" by a person named Bill, but no report of the package has yet made its way online, and Bill's location is unknown.
- "Zoltan Gerts" posted in the Cyberdyne facebook group explaining that a man named Bill approached him and gave him the package, along with a lot of additional information
- He describes "Bill" as "a tall hooded man wearing a skiing mask and some kinda goggles that completely cover his face", who said he was "an associate of [his] father (whom [he has] not heard from in over a decade)". Bill gave him the package and told him to protect it at all costs. Bill mentions a rogue resistance cell and "preventing someone from 'compromising the integrity of the code'". The package contents are the same as vpisteves in California, but with the addition of a note which simply says: "Face North. Take a photograph. Contact Enitech Research."
- Who is Bill? Who is Zoltan?
January 23, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: 2 devices recovered in LA and NY. 2 still hidden. New photos coming in
- Photos of the two packages that were picked up are posted, along with the accounts of the deaddrops. Zoltan's meeting with the mysterious Bill included, but still no information is known. They are concerned for the safety of those who find the cameras. They also received an email from someone named "Alex" containing a number of photos in similar fashion to their tachyon camera's results - someone else may possess a similar device.
- Later, vpisteve received a communication from a flickr account named "The Resistance":
:: the device
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- vpisteve replied, to which he received another response:
Someone wants to send you a message.
Go to Security Trust of Los Angeles, point the device at box A117 inside the bank vault. It has steel walls that can withstand a severe nuclear blast with an estimated yield of around 50 megatons. Take a photo with the device.
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- The bank Security Trust of Los Angeles is the bank that Sarah, John, and Cameron visited in the pilot episode, when locating box A117 registered to "E. Boykins", or "The Engineer" - a resistance fighter from the future who developed a powerful weapon and components for a time displacement field which would take them to 2007 - in the middle of the 105 freeway (indicating the bank was destroyed).
- Frank Bentley's status on his facebook profile now reads: "busy collecting"
January 24, 2008
- Frank Bentley's status on his facebook profile now reads: "checking into a rumor"
- vpisteve travels to the bank to carry out his task.
- He takes two pictures of the bank and sends them to Enitech for processing.
- Enitech replies to Steve saying
Thank you. We've been contacted by someone claiming to be in "the resistance" who has asked us to process these images using our system. We're curious to find out what will turn up. We'll be in touch soon. |
- The Resistance responds through flickr:
Excellent work. |
Part 5 - Resistance isn't futile
January 24, 2008
- A new image on the Restistance's flickr account is posted showing newspaper clippings, and saved in a new set "other".
- The central clip is Dutch, but contains a paragraph of numbers - code? This begins a new puzzle to solve.
- The central clip is Dutch, but contains a paragraph of numbers - code? This begins a new puzzle to solve.
January 25, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: Enitech update video on the latest news from the Gardner Project 1/25/08
- A video outlining their findings from the past couple of days is posted, with the realization that there will be a devastating event occuring within about 3 years. With this in mind, they are storing their findings in a very ssafe vault for the future, for the survivors, in case it helps them.
- Also hidden within the video are numerous frames - likely placed there by The Resistance. One seems to prompt us with an email to contact them (takebackthefuture@gmail.com); one tells us that "The Turk is not dead", and one is a clip of a dead enitech member - Jacob Gustar! (the one asked to pose in front of a wall in 3 years, who the tachyon photo showed didn't make it)
- Prompted by the final hidden frame of the crime scene, KookieB emailed EniTech asking if Jacob Gustar was dead, to which they replied:
You must be confused. Jacob is still very much alive. He's sitting across from me as I write this. |
- On emailing the Resistance email address from the video, a response is sent containing a second numeric code to solve.
- thebruce emailed the Resistance asking if they had any additional information about Jacob Gustar's apparent murder. A reply was received quickly containing the original image that was inserted into the video of Jacob's crime scene (right). Note the date: the photo was taken April 11, 2008 - almost 3 months in the future.
Part 6 - Hexed
January 25, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: First actual field image from the found Granada Hills device developed.
- Steve's photo of the vault was received and processed. The Security Trust of Los Angeles appears reduced to rubble, however there is a plaque labelled "RESIST" along with a symbol, or logo. Enitech is also currently processing a photo sent in by Zoltan recently. They also claim to be able to pull tachyon imagery from regular digital photographs, so has requested people to send in photo of major landmarks in their areas for the lab to process. Get snapping!
January 27, 2008
- catherwood managed to reverse-engineer the latest two numeric puzzles, revealing the locations of the final two cameras - Lago Vista, by Austin, TX, and by a baseball field in Orland, FL.
January 28, 2008
- New Enitech blog post: 2nd recovered device image. From the New York City device.
- Zoltan sent in his photo from NY, with a little info passed on from his contact "Bill". He was given coordinates to photograph from, and to face north. He sent two photos - one with a compass in the frame and one without. Enitech processed and displayed the latter. In the frame, for the second time, is a "RESIST" plaque with another symbol (this one differs from the first, revealed in Steve's bank vault photo earlier). Thus we may be looking at another puzzle.
Part 7 - The hunt part 2
January 29, 2008
- RoseKitty retrieves the Austin, TX resistance package, takes a north-facing photo with the camera, and submits it to Enitech. Photos of the drop are on her flickr.
- New Enitech blog post: 3rd Recovered Device Image. From Texas
- rosekitty, aka Ellie, had her photo from the Texas camera processed (the image she submitted was already loaded on the camera, oddly)
- rosekitty, aka Ellie, had her photo from the Texas camera processed (the image she submitted was already loaded on the camera, oddly)
- New Enitech blog post: The very first user-submitted photo from an ordinary digital camera
- Enitech posts their first user-submitted photograph from bryanflurry, processed for tachyon imagery. The first mention of Skynet is made (prompted by an earlier comment in the blog by a reader).
- Enitech posts their first user-submitted photograph from bryanflurry, processed for tachyon imagery. The first mention of Skynet is made (prompted by an earlier comment in the blog by a reader).
January 30, 2008
- A series of emails were sent from the Resistance after 3am Eastern, each growing more urgent, containing increasing amounts of the message below:
there is one more device remaining.
skynet is coming now. warn enitech. no more time left. (previously: only hours left) |
- Attached were photos of the exact deaddrop location for the last resistance package in Orland FL, seeming to verify the GPS coordinates that were given.
- A short time later, Made@Dark manages to retrieve the final resistance package from Orlando, FL. It also contains the same contents as the previous packages, with a photo pre-existing on the memory card. (all photos available on his photobucket)
- Takebackthefuture.com is updated with video clips and a series of specific countdown numbers interspersed throughout the clips: 2739, 1987, 1920, 1975, 7542, 0232, 1206.
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 30, 2008 - Warnings.
- Enitech clears the air and lets people know they've received the warnings about the old Cyberdyne project (Skynet) and a potential security threat to an employee. They are staying alert.
January 31, 2008
- An email was received by TimonyCrickets from Frank in response to his emailed warning:
Thanks for the warning Timony. We'll keep our eyes open. Tomorrow morning I'll talk to the security staff at our building about the issue. |
- New EniTech blog entry: Jan 31, 2008 - Webcam footage recorded hours ago.
- A video is posted of a webcam conversation between Mike and Anna. The outlook does not look good for Mike. However, Mike reveals what may be the key for understanding the RESIST symbols - a form of neural network diagram. They also ask anyone to email them with information if it's known.
- An email was received by Punchline from Frank in response to his emailed information:
We use an electronic keycard system and yes, the building automatically locks up after 6:30pm. Investigators are still working to figure out exactly how and why the intruder gained access without force. |
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February 1, 2008
- An email was received by thebruce from Enitech after emailing with condolences and and information:
We are still struggling to overcome the loss and it will be hard to overcome. Our team is working to salvage the work that Mike was doing for us. He was in the process of processing the 4th image and we are working to find out what's on it. |
February 2, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Feb 2, 2008 - In the wake of Mike’s death, work still continues at Enitech
- Enitech reveals the processed photo from the last camera found in Florida, which includes the 4th RESIST symbol. They also inform us that they are working on user-submitted regular digital photos from various locations around the world (including NORAD!).
February 4, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Feb 4, 2008 - User submitted image from St. Louis
- Enitech reveals a processed user-submitted photo from St. Louis.
- Enitech reveals a processed user-submitted photo from St. Louis.
- An email was received by various people from The Resistance:
tell the others they have all the pieces |
February 5, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Feb 5, 2008 - User submitted image: NORAD
- Enitech reveals a processed user-submitted photo from Cheyenne Mountain, the location of NORAD.
- Enitech reveals a processed user-submitted photo from Cheyenne Mountain, the location of NORAD.
- An email was received by thebruce from The Resistance after asking if they want the assembled RESIST pieces:
No, send them to someone who can use them |
- An email was received by KookieB from Enitech after conversing about the RESIST pieces:
(re: Mike's neural network idea) Actually Ben, I think Mike was right. |
February 6, 2008
- An email was received by thebruce from Dyson Trust after asking for tips regarding the RESIST symbols:
The pyramid idea intrigues us. Has anyone tried assembling the diagram in three dimensions? |
February 7, 2008
- An email was received by thebruce from Dyson Trust regarding the RESIST symbols:
Why not just construct it as a basic pyramid shape? I'd be curious to see what that looks like. |
February 8, 2008
- New EniTech blog entry: Feb 8, 2008 - Mike's notes.
- A couple of note sheets found on Mike's desk after his murder are posted for review, including a new circular diagram that seems somehow related to the pyramid diagram. Mike seemed to believe the symbols formed a 3D pyramid.
- A couple of note sheets found on Mike's desk after his murder are posted for review, including a new circular diagram that seems somehow related to the pyramid diagram. Mike seemed to believe the symbols formed a 3D pyramid.