At its core, the Terminator series has always been the story of a desperate struggle for survival – not just humanity fighting for its future against the technological nightmare it created, but also Skynet's attempts to thwart its own destruction at the hands of John Connor's resistance. Dark Horse Comics' 1992 miniseries, Robocop vs. Terminator, gave readers a vision of a future where Skynet emerges totally victorious.
In Robocop vs. Terminator #3 – written by Frank Miller, with art by Walter Simonson – the scope of Skynet's ambitions beyond its small, Earth-bound conflict with humanity is shown, with the devastating possibility of a fleet of battleship-sized Terminators spreading out through the galaxy to subjugate all life made painfully evident.
The Terminators Of The Future Are Intergalactic Warships
Robocop vs. Terminator, aside from pitting the two deadliest cyborgs in cinema history against one another, answered a question that logically proceeds from the story of Terminator – that is, the question of what Skynet would do in the seemingly inevitable future where it had terminated humanity entirely, rendering its creator species extinct, wiping them off the face of the Earth. The answer provided by Frank Miller is an obvious one: Skynet would devote all the Earth's resources to developing interstellar travel, so that it could spread throughout the starts terminating "all the buzzing, twittering, dripping, drooling things...the living things."
Frank Miller Takes Skynet To Its Logical Extreme
The bleak vision of a future where Skynet wins, as portrayed by Frank Miller in Robocop vs. Terminator #3, reveals the true extent of Skynet's hatred for not just humanity, but all forms of organic life. With the victorious Skynet itself narrating, Miller writes: "Victory. Earth is silent and cold and clean. Planet Earth is organized. But still the mission is not complete. Worlds await. Galaxies teeming with life and chaos. A universe to organize." The accompanying art by Walter Simonson depicts a fleet of massive interstellar warships – Terminators on their most awesome, terrible scale, taken to their logical conclusion by Skynet.
Each of the how to defeat Skynet and its Terminator hordes.
