2070Īs the war with the Chinese entered its eleventh year, the combined United States and Canadian military were beginning to suffer from a lack of trained personnel. Many of the brains extracted at the Sierra Army Depot wound up in robobrains, while prisoners and soldiers were often kept in stasis, to keep them fresh for medical and testing purposes.
In conjunction with its biological weapons and drug research, the depot was home to illegal experiments conducted on prisoners of war, and military deserters, in order to find ways for further enhancing intelligence and fighting skills. With the collapse of the United Nations in 2052, weapon inspections ceased to be a concern, a freedom embraced by the military, leading to the funding of a bio-warfare development branch. Skynet did not gain self-awareness until 2075, where afterwards it began to rapidly develop a cybernetic brain with the aim of attaining mobility. Scientists were free to conduct their research programs without outside interference, in which research into robotics, yielded its first fruit very soon in Skynet, the first artificial intelligence conceived in the depot, the same year as the switch in priorities (2050). It became a classified facility for robotic research and development, as well as biological and conventional weapon programs and testing, requiring a Level 5 military clearance to even to enter the base's perimeter. In 2050, the military, recognizing the need for improved equipment and weapons, refitted and renovated Sierra Army Depot from a munitions base, into a state-of-the-art research facility. Army's Industrial Operations Command (IOC), its activities were overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where the depot continued to function in this capacity for fifty-eight years, until military minds changed once again.
Ĭaught in a wave of military downsizing and ordnance disposal, the Sierra Army Depot was repurposed in 1992, and was set to the task of decommissioning outdated or otherwise unacceptable ordnance in an environmentally friendly manner. ĭuring World War II, the Sierra Army Depot was intended to be a storehouse of defensive ordnance, which would be used to defend the United States in tandem with nearby military installations and units to ensure adequate, unbroken supply lines in the event of an invasion by foreign entities. Once a regional storage area for the military's arms and munitions, a significant amount of its holdings were depleted in the Great War, although there are remaining gems of pre-War hardware that can still be salvaged for those that can brave the still functional automated defenses.
0 kommentar(er)
