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Colonel Reese opens his briefcase; takes out a Digital Video Disc. He places it in a DVD player in a big screen television. The screen goes black, then...²PROJECT WORMWOOD -- Classified Information- Smart Weapons Testing - White Sands Target range - New Mexico.

A HUNTER-KILLER

prototype, an olive drab vehicle rolls across desert, it's treads CLANK and KICK up dust. Target cars and trucks are crushed by the treads. It fires laser weapons from turrets on overhanging arms about 20 feet above the ground. The turrets aim and destroy targets.

Colonel Reese The M-100 H-K. Autonomous, unmanned, equipped with laser weapons and infrared scanning.

An endo-skeleton robot walks and destroys fake soldiers with a laser plasma rifle. It's a model subtitled T-70, bulkier than the future endo-skeleton cyborgs. Olive green exterior. It faces us, an omen.

Frank Cyberdyne Systems Model 101; version T-70. Cyberdyne wouldn't be here if I hadn't invented it.

Colonel Reese Bullet proof, resistant to Electromagnetic pulse. The soldier of the future.
(to Frank) Of course poor security delayed completion.

Frank Because the terrorists set us back three years.

Steve glances at Frank's unsettled eyes, concerned at the breach in security of such an advanced place.

Frank
(to Steve) I'll explain later.

Colonel Reese Thanks to you Steve, our nation's armed forces will be one with machines.

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