EXT. RUINS OF LOS ANGELES. NIGHT. KATHERINE CONNOR (V.O.): After (a) several failed attempts at duplicating the energy needed for the Operation nickname: 'Dare Devil Machine", A huge Metal Monstrocity Strong Enough to defeat S.K.Y.N.E.T., built by Us Humans; REVEAL THROUGH THE ASHES AND RUBBLE A BIG - HUGE METAL FIGHTING MACHINE ON WHEELS, ROLLING THROUGH THE DESSERT OF NEVADA... FIRING-OFF LASER BLASTS EVERY FEW SECONDS AS IT SPEEDS BY... EXT. SPACE - PLANET EARTH. NIGHT. EARTH HAS SMALL FIRES ALL AROUND THE PLANET FROM CANADA DOWN TO AFRICA, UP IN THE SOVIET RUPULIC, AND CAN BE SEEN FROM SPACE, AND A HUGE MUSHROOM CLOUD EXPLODES IN THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE IN NEVADA. KATHERINE(V.O.): Atleast temporarily causing a(n) disruption; An explosion of sorts, leaving a huge hole in the side of the Earth... Causing and Rendering a huge aspect/portion of S.K.Y.N.E.T. to be shut-down; cutting off a huge portion of It's Main-Power-Supply-Generators and certain positronic relays in it's circuitry - cutting off communication withitself across the world, cutting in and out of memory... INT. BOMBED-UP BUSINESS BUILDLING. NIGHT. WE ARE LOOKING AT LIT-UP COMPUTER TERMINALS, WITH BLINKING LIGHTS AND BEEPING SOUNDS & COMPUTER BLARE-DOPPLER SOUND COMING FROM THE COMPUTERS.. AND AN OLD ROTARY PHONE CONSTANTLY RINGING WITHOUT STOP... JOHN CONNOR(V.O.): Damaged signals bleeping and blaring, buttons and switches blinking at various computer terminals, through-out the world, in various office-building remnents, printing out directions on-screen for other Terminator Agent/Machines to Program; when found, to fix that portion of S.K.Y.N.E.T.'s damage; The Explosion was That Huge, and beginning the Programming/ReProgramming phase of It's Circuitries.. As programmed by S.K.Y.N.E.T... EXT. SPACE. NIGHT. SEVERAL SPACESHIPS & SPACE-SHUTTLES BLAST OFF FROM THE PLANET... KATHERINE(V.O.): Partially and temporarily rendering her defenseless, But Again, In another Panic, S.K.Y.N.E.T., launching straight-off from the Asembly-Line Factory, The Indo-Ecto-Metal-Skeleton-Cyborg-101-Terminators as First Wave into battle; to head the attack; to start a sweep, marching from one side of the city to the other, straight into battle with the human race, climbing hills and stomping through city sewers, shooting-off A Laser-Plasma-Rifel; shooting a couple rounds-off every few seconds - A Human Militaristic Manuever Tactic recorded as a series of war-time scenarios in S.K.Y.N.E.T.'s M.I.N.D., The Terminator's Reasoning, Immitating It's Creator ManKind (1) May hit something in the dark, and (2) To scare the people hiding within the dark; a tickle, a small victory, a burn - Basic Psycology, paraphrasing the times... JOHN(V.O.): Major Cities are torn, other's rendered incapasitated.. The Street Lights had been restored and turned on by S.K.Y.N.E.T. to see the human's at night, being partially disabled.. Streets Streaming and scattered with city lights and blinking stop-signals, up bombed out office buildings and through most cities... KATHERINE(V.O.): John and I Narrowly Escaped the Blast/Explosion, but hatching our major plan secretly sending different Scientists, Construction Worker's, Arcitechs and the like into Space, To start Terriforming the Moon and Mars! JOHN(V.O.): S.K.Y.N.E.T., eventually; circuitry's restored at various places, communicating with I.T.S.E.L.F. on the planet; part of S.K.Y.N.E.T.'s M.I.N.D. was taken out in the Blast/Explosion, and is now recalculating Human Scenario's, one of which is to Terraform and Colonize into Space... KATHERINE(V.O.): Close and near to complete Regrouping into Space, and the terraforming the Moon and Mars; Time Is a battle, and Space Is a Race... Space looks pretty big from without it.. Seeing the battle from space is devistating, S.K.Y.N.E.T. had speculated the move into space on a reserved circuitry channel on one of I.T.'s Sub-Routine Thought Processors.. JOHN(V.O.): Still not connected with ItSelf to fully realize the danger, past-off as obsolete at first, rather inconceivable, giving The Resistance Enough Time to pack what human's they could Into Various Space Shuttles from Around the world, terraforming and giving birth to life, building a strong militarily in Space, A Place to get your S*IT together, Preparing the Moon and Mars from an attack by S.K.Y.N.E.T., making sure It couldn't up-link to the resistance to try and up-load any viruses into the newly modern re-programmed computer systems... Terminator Unfriendly from a Programmer's Point of View, uh-uh, I don't know tech-stuff.. KATHERINE(V.O.): And attacking S.K.Y.N.E.T. From the Skies is becoming a cold close Reality... The Battle of Earth Looks Fairly Intense, fires raging everywhere on the surface.. JOHN(V.O.): The Plan? to bomb S.K.Y.N.E.T., bombarded with bombs on the surface of the planet from the skies, the Moon and Mars... And Space-Ships built from material mined on Mars and the Moon - to prevent the Terminator from getting off the planet into space.. KATHERIN(V.O.): The Moon Being the Millitary Base of Humanity, with a strong-arm of space-ships spanning the skies around the planet, from here to the Moon to Mars, and Mars as a home planet for human's go help each other raise each other, and look out for one another, take breaks from the war that is now about to take place.. JOHN(V.O.): S.K.Y.N.E.T. Finally realizes that Humanity does pose a threat, and Is Starting to Build Machines for Space... Eventually Winning It's way into Space, S.K.Y.N.E.T. has a new plan, to conquier the Universe, and is building it's Human-Doom's-Day-Machine in Space.. This is where the Story Starts, Where Katherine and I a scheduled to do a fly by of Skynet In Space, and the opportunity to try and take it out without it whippin' our ass... In Space this Story Takes Place... Katherine.. Wake-up.. It's time for another run at Skynet... CUT TO BLACK: BEGINNING TERMINATOR IV : THE TERMINATOR WARS OPENING TITLE CREDITS...