So Terminator lore question - in the first movie, it was said that Skynet was basically on the edge of defeat, the time travel plan was...
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It basically sent all its remaining stuff through the time hole at everything it could think was a good thing to stop
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However there's an argument that the T1000 was sent immediately after when the 800's mission could be presumed a failure
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Thus, technically, the T-1000 only exists in the timeline where Sarah Connor survives.
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So Reese is 'from' a timeline where there was no second terminator sent back, if that makes sense
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You could argue, being nerdy, that post-T1 Skynet has data about the first terminator, sends the 800 back as a courtesy, then the 1000
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[...] back to ACTUALLY complete the mission
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Certainly possible - and others have suggested the timeline altered because of the first failed mission.
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How would time travel even work if you sent two people back to two different points simultaneously? Oh shit what did I just do to my brain
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It's possible that the T1000 was created specifically to go back in time? i.e. the T800 might be more cost-effective to use in battle.
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So as they were developing a time machine they were also developing the T1000 to use it. But the time machine was finished first
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So they sent back what they had on hand, the T800, shortly after the T1000 was finished & they sent one through.
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