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Hunter Killer Terminators
The Hunter Killer or "HK" series of anti-personnel combat units were the simplest and most numerous of the various combat oriented Machines designed by SKYNET and while they were the first and largest, they were not the most effective or the most numerous. Originally evolved from advanced prototype American robot weapon systems under development at the end of the 20th century, the various series of HK units represented the largest areas of advances in design and technology over the course of the three decades long war. Built in fully automated factories to precision tolerances using high technology, HKswere used to eliminate the human survivors in the ruins and to pacify or cleanse large areas of any feral scavengers so that the Machines could move in and collect the local resources or set up automated installations without the threat of constant harassment. Their greatest success rates were observed during daylight hours by using a variety of advanced image intensification and motion tracking capabilities. Any movement was instantly tracked, analyzed, and if it represented a human target, weapons were brought to bear and the target was engaged. If termination was not the immediate result, the HKs were programmed to judge the effects of their actions, calculate new strategies and options and to pursue targets based on a wide range of criteria. Pursuit of any acquired target until such time as termination could be carried out and verified or until the HKs had lost the track of the target for a predetermined time limit. If the target tracking was lost, the HK would go to loiter mode, assess the situation, extrapolate possible hiding places or methods of escape, follow through with the most likely, and would attempt to reacquire the target. If the target could not be reacquired, then the HK would resume its patrol route.
In the first five years of the War, the rapidly evolving HK series of Machines were responsible for a large amount of post-strike human casualties. The initial high success rate was due simply to surprise; the human survivors were scattered into isolated pockets, disorganized, starved for food and information, cut off from most communication beyond local zones, and unable to share information or request help from other still viable units. The human survivors had little if any combat capacity and no access to high powered weapons. Coordinated attacks by mechanized robotic combat units quickly pacified and cleansed large urban sectors of any survivors from the initial nuclear exchange and actively patrolled these sectors for several years afterwards, keeping the areas free from human infestation and migration. The Machines roamed the ruins relentlessly, tirelessly, searching, tracking, eliminating. Random patrols were the norm, supplemented by a large network of remote sensors and scanners. Isolated human units were tracked with great efficiency by SKYNET's military aerial and orbital surveillance systems and were rapidly neutralized through force redirection. When sporadic communication became available to the human survivors again, it came with a great amount of mistrust and caution, two huge advantages for SKYNET that were immediately noticed and acted upon to great effect. Confusion continued to reign among the human survivors as ever newer, ever more advanced combat Machines made short work of any resistance, organized or happenstance. The cities became silent tombs of littered bodies, those killed by the initial nuclear strikes and those who were killed later by the patrolling Machines.
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In the first five years of the War, the rapidly evolving HK series of Machines were responsible for a large amount of post-strike human casualties. The initial high success rate was due simply to surprise; the human survivors were scattered into isolated pockets, disorganized, starved for food and information, cut off from most communication beyond local zones, and unable to share information or request help from other still viable units. The human survivors had little if any combat capacity and no access to high powered weapons. Coordinated attacks by mechanized robotic combat units quickly pacified and cleansed large urban sectors of any survivors from the initial nuclear exchange and actively patrolled these sectors for several years afterwards, keeping the areas free from human infestation and migration. The Machines roamed the ruins relentlessly, tirelessly, searching, tracking, eliminating. Random patrols were the norm, supplemented by a large network of remote sensors and scanners. Isolated human units were tracked with great efficiency by SKYNET's military aerial and orbital surveillance systems and were rapidly neutralized through force redirection. When sporadic communication became available to the human survivors again, it came with a great amount of mistrust and caution, two huge advantages for SKYNET that were immediately noticed and acted upon to great effect. Confusion continued to reign among the human survivors as ever newer, ever more advanced combat Machines made short work of any resistance, organized or happenstance. The cities became silent tombs of littered bodies, those killed by the initial nuclear strikes and those who were killed later by the patrolling Machines.
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