| Type | Technology contractor |
| Location | 18144 El Camino Real |
| Owner(s) | Bertram Hollister, Oscar Cruz, Skynet |
| Featured in | Terminator |
Cyberdyne Systems was a major technology contractor for the U.S Military that achieved relative success after it discovered the remains of an android from the future created by a future incarnation of their own company. Cyberdyne Systems is a major company and faction from the Terminator franchise.
Overview
History
Founded in 1984 as a computer maker, it was initially small, other than owning a factory and being named Cyber Dynamics. Later that year, a young woman named Sarah Connor and her protector, Kyle Reese, a soldier from the future, were chased into Cyberdyne factory by a Terminator, an advance time-traveling android sent by Skynet, a malicious AI created by Cyberdyne in the future who had conquered the world and had sent the android back to kill them, as Sarah Connor would give birth to Skynet's future nemesis John Connor. Sarah eventually lured the Terminator into a hydraulic press and crushed it by pushing a button that lowered the press, however Reese died during the incident, but left Sarah pregnant with their child John who would one day challenge Cyberdyne and Skynet.
Soon, the executives of Cyber Dynamics, Betram Hollister and Ed Astin renamed the company to Cyberdyne Systems after they found the remains of the destroyed Terminator in their factory during a police investigation, and eventually created a mega-microcomputer from it, becoming a tech contractor for the government. Eventually Oscar Cruz would succeed Hollister as president of Cyberdyne for most of the 1990's, however he was secretly serving as the brainwashed puppet of a T-XA Terminator unit dubbed Casse who had infiltrated Cyberdyne and served as its vice-president in order to ensure Skynet's continued existence.
Dr. Miles Dyson, a high-ranking employee of Cyberdyne, was tasked to create a new supercomputer neural network for the military called Skynet using the remains of the Terminator. Nobody knew, however, that in 1997, Skynet would become self-aware, and launch nuclear missiles across the world, starting a nuclear war. Sarah, her son John, a re-programmed Terminator, and Dyson himself delayed the production of Skynet by destroying the Cyberdyne company's corporate research headquarters.
In the following decade, Cyberdyne is in the tank, financially ruined with the expenses of their building's explosions and their products destroyed. The corporation has been shut down and bankrupted in 2004, but their remaining assets have been bought out by the U.S. Air Force.
Staff
Executives & Directors
- Bertram Hollister, President of Cyberdyne
- Oscar Cruz, second President of Cyberdyne
- Mr. Casse (T-XA), Vice-President of Cyberdyne and Skynet underling
- Ed Astin, unknown high ranking position
- Charles Layton, Executive
- Miles Bennett Dyson, first Director of Special Projects
- Rosanna Monk, second Director of Special Projects
- Kimberley Duncan, Director of Community Relations and Media Control
- Peter Silberman, Director of Employee Health and Wellness
- Robin Sandler, Director of Public Relations
- Tricker, US Governmental Liaison Officer
Employees
- Dr. Serena Kogan, Chief Biologist and Skynet underling
- Clea Bennet, Tech Researcher and Skynet underling
- Serena Burns, Chief of Security and Skynet underling
- Grayson Hunter, Security and later Chief of Security
- Carl Gibbons, Security
- Tom Gallagher, Security and Skynet underling
- Bob Harris, Security and Skynet underling
- Dick Lewis, Security and Skynet underling
Facilities
- Cyberdyne Systems Factory - Located in Los Angeles, this factory was used to manufacture computer components for other companies and the government. It was here that Sarah Connor destroyed the T-800 that was hunting her in the original timeline. Cyberdyne recovered the T-800's remains and reverse-engineered them in order to produce Skynet.
- Cyberdyne Systems Headquarters - Located at 18144 El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, California. This was Cyberdyne's corporate HQ and primary research facility but it was destroyed in 1995 by Sarah Connor, John Connor, Miles Dyson and a reprogrammed T-800.
- Project Angel Facility - Located somewhere in California, Cyberdyne used this facility to conduct genetic and cybernetic research in the early 2000's. The facility was left abandoned following Judgment Day and later taken over by Skynet which used the facility to conduct tissue replication experiments as part of the T-800 series' development.
Trivia
- This company is indirectly responsible for creating Judgement Day and the war between the Terminators and the Human Resistance (in the future lead by John Connor).
- An actual Cyberdyne company exists in Japan which was founded by Japanese billionaire and Terminator fan Yoshiyuki Sankai, which deals in robotic exosuits and cyborg technologies.