Dragaera

Thoughts about Piro and Krytaan....

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Sun Nov 23 06:25:56 PST 2003

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Mark A Mandel wrote:

>On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, K Kuhn wrote:
>
>#Could androids be called 'undead'?  If so,
>#1) Dzur Mountain is Dragaera's version of Skynet.
>#
>#2) 'Sethra' is an android into which Skynet occasionally downloads parts
>
>Please excuse my ignorance: "Skynet"?
>

The Terminator movies, standing on one leg:

Ther Terminators are metallic humanoid cyborgs that march around
killing people.  They can also have a synthetic skin wrapped around
them which makes them look like Arnold Schwartznegger (series T-101
model T-800), Robert Patrick (T-1000), or Kristanna Loken (T-X) 
(althogh the last two models can theoretically look like anyone),
which theoretically allows them to infitrate human encampents to
target specific humans (although why the humans don't use metal
detectors has never been explained). 

Skynet is the computer Overmind that directs all of the subsidiary
battle hardware, and in fact is largely responsible for the creation
of most of it.  It has decided it doesn't like humans, and wishes to
destroy or subjugate all of them.

John Connor is the leader of the human resistance.

In the first movie, the earliest model Terminator is sent back through
time to kill John Connor's mother, Sarah Connor.  A human resistance
fighter is sent back in time to help John Connor's mother.  As you
might guess, he ends up impregnating her with the kid who will
turn out to be John Connor.

For more information, see:

   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/
   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/
   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/