| rdfs:comment | - The Model usually refers to the designation for the living tissue mould around the metal endoskeleton (the skin) of a Terminator (Infiltrator), such as the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101. Early in the design approach, the technological limitations on the minimum size of the endoskeletons restricted Skynet to a much smaller pool of potential Models for use, as they had to be physically large enough to accommodate the Terminator, resulting in the T-800 Terminator and its variant, male and female alike being of herculean or amazonian proportions. Advances in the development of endoskeleton design now allow for a far greater customizable approach to the process, matching infiltration sheaths to the optional chassis construction of units such as the T-888 Terminator.
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| abstract | - The Model usually refers to the designation for the living tissue mould around the metal endoskeleton (the skin) of a Terminator (Infiltrator), such as the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101. Early in the design approach, the technological limitations on the minimum size of the endoskeletons restricted Skynet to a much smaller pool of potential Models for use, as they had to be physically large enough to accommodate the Terminator, resulting in the T-800 Terminator and its variant, male and female alike being of herculean or amazonian proportions. Advances in the development of endoskeleton design now allow for a far greater customizable approach to the process, matching infiltration sheaths to the optional chassis construction of units such as the T-888 Terminator. There are many Models available for Skynet to use in generating the living tissue sheaths, drawn from both live captures on the battlefields of the Future War, as well as archived records from Skynet's pre-Judgment Day databases. Although many of these model runs were initiated for the purpose of specific individual replacement, as a matter of efficiency, entire squads of similarly equipped Terminators are produced together and spread around the battlefields of the Future War to prevent detection by virtue of duplicate Terminator syndrome. As long as the endoskeleton is capable of accommodating the selected Model, Skynet continues to reuse the template as required, across Series if it must. Although technically not bound to a model, mimetic polyalloy-equipped units, such as T-1xxx and T-X, do operate with an individualized general "default" appearance drawn from the same sources used for the generation of the models in use by the endoskeletons.
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