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T-400
(Foot Soldiers)
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FUNCTION: Soldiers, Security
Note: The original production run of the T-400 was in the millions.
INTELLIGENCE- Series 40 Integrated Logic Package.
The Series 40 ILP CPU was a very basic Terminator brain, allowing
weapons targeting, navigation, and very limited autonomy. The greatest
achievement of the 40 ILP was a stripped down nervous system that
allowed for the units to balance themselves while walking. This was
basically a consolidated platform based on the AI of the T-70, made in
a smaller fabrication process with all additional features removed.
This chip did not have a suicide feature, which was a mistake on
Skynet's part as the primitive design bared many of the hallmarks of
the Neural Net architecture of the later Terminator models. The
resistance was able to reverse engineer these chips and from that
knowledge was then able to eventually reprogram more sophisticated
hunter killers as well.
These units had just enough volatile memory to follow simple
instructions issued to them by Skynet and to navigate the ruins of
various urban areas. Together with the T-500, the T-400 was simply
designed as a stop gap to keep the human resistance off balance while
Skynet worked in secret perfecting the true Neural Net CPU Learning
Computer that would be installed in later deadly Terminator models.
Like the T-500, the T-400 was capable of distinguishing between its
targets and other Terminators. Significantly more intelligent than an
insect, it was capable of following verbal commands.
T-400s exhibited aggressive and impulsive behavior, not unlike apes.
COMBAT
2 modes of operation:
- direct (directed by Skynet defense computers like soldiers in a war game); and
- automatic (individual units acting automatically to a variety of preprogrammed conditions).
Technically,
T-400s could also be set to an autonomous mode, but this was not often
used due to their tendency to inadvertangly damage Skynet manufacturing
facilities when not supervised.
CONCEALMENT -
Not applicable.
CAPABILITIES-
In
addition to the above listed capabilities the 400 Series has many
features. Capable of pressing roughly 1000 pounds and traveling on all
terrain
with little difficulty. The greatest asset of the T-400 was in the
great numbers it was produced in. Destroying ten or fifteen of these
plodding menaces was no great feat, but destroying an army of 50,000
units sprawling about the landscape could be taxing of manpower and
resources.
One purpose of the T-400 was to break through physical barriers and
blockades that the resistance erected so that more effective but less
mobile soldiers (such as the T-1s and Fast Walkers) could then advance
and exterminate humans. However, this programmed behavior was often
used inappropriately by these androids resulting in the robots walking
into buildings, knocking down load baring members with their great
strength, then being flattened or buried when the buildings collapsed.
Finally, one of the greatest features of the T-400 was that Skynet
could afford to use them to detonate resistance landlines.
CONSTRUCTION-
Steel framed with ceramic / tin-plated armor and some aluminum
components. One single optical sensor. Shoulder mounted plasma-based
weapon. Exposed wiring.
WEAPONRY-
The T-400 was issued light plasma phase weapons permanently attached to
their shoulders (so that they would not lose them). In order to
hit a target the T-400 unit had to be directly facing that target.
Multiple targets could easily confuse
WEAK POINTS-
- No depth perception.
- Predictable aggression.
- Single optical sensor glowed bright red, making an excellent bullseye for a sniper.
- Only capable of the most simplistic mental processes.
- Susceptible to rust and corrosion.
- Many spots vulnerable to conventional artillery.
- Can be detected by animals at great distance.
- No
self-preservation programming (sometimes would walk directly off of
cliffs or blow themselves up by stepping on clearly visible claymores).
- Most of the capabilities of the T-400
were actually outstripped by previous models, especially their
targeting system and weapons.
- The capabilities of the T-400 to operate autonomously was negligible. Their greatest asset was in their large numbers.
- T-400s were very loud and made a distinctive "clunking" noise while marching.
- Permanently attached weapons systems were awkward to aim at targets.
- Although far stronger
than a human being, a T-400 could be defeated by an unarmed human who
was familiar with the weaknesses of the model and used its weight
against it.
THREAT LEVEL- Low
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