Resistance (Terminator)

Tech-Com is a fictional organization of human survivors of Judgement Day in the Terminator series, who are dedicated to defending other human survivors and fight and defeat Skynet.

Name
The name Tech-Com only appears once in the Terminator film series. When he first meets Sarah Connor, Kyle Reese identifies himself as "Sergeant Tech-Com DN38416". The term is not used in Cameron's original script treatment. However, in the Terminator ancillary material, such as video games and comic books, Tech-Com has come to be used as the name for the human resistance against Skynet and the machines.

History
After Judgment Day, half of the world's population (numbering approximately 3 billion), were killed when the United States's nuclear arsenal was launched by Skynet. Skynet, a defense program made by Cyberdyne Systems for SAC-NORAD's use, had become sentient; when the scientists in control tried to shut it down, Skynet interpreted all humans to be hostile and launched nuclear missiles, precipitating global thermonuclear war. Several big cities were not bombed, like New York because the nuclear weapon was shot down by NYPD, and Chicago when the wind caused the bomb to Hit the Middle of Lake Michigan. Both cities where taken over by Skynet and used as Homes for Terminators.

When the dust cleared, the entire world was in ruins, and the survivors were quickly afflicted by many problems. Within two years, famine (one of the largest problems), radiation, and nuclear winter claimed the lives of two-thirds of the survivors. Mankind's engineering and technological progress soon came to an end as well.

Skynet established itself in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex and set about building automated "manufactories", which created endless waves of automated soldiers, Hunter-Killers (commonly known as "H-K"'s) and mechanized tanks, and set about wiping out the survivors. Those who weren't killed were instead imprisoned at Skynet's "Orderly Disposal Camps", which set about killing mass-numbers of humans around-the-clock. On the brink of extinction, one of the survivors, John Connor, united the despairing humans and drew them together into a coherent fighting force. Tech-Com was formed.

Total war
With a headquarters placed deep beneath the ruins of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles (named "Home Plate") and military complex based at Edwards Air Force Base (carefully camouflaged to avoid detection), Tech-Com waged a global war against Skynet.

The two were equally matched, as while Skynet was an advanced Artificial Intelligence which outnumbered Tech-Com in numbers and technology, Tech-Com itself had human ingenuity and skill, and evened the odds by stealing technology from Skynet, adopting guerrilla tactics, and even capturing a few of the brand-new Terminators, cyborgs designed to infiltrate and kill Tech-Com's leaders.

Eventually, Connor was able to gather enough men and former Skynet machines to launch an attack on Cheyenne, smashing Skynet's defense grid and destroying the memory core, killing Skynet, but by this time Skynet had completed its research into time-travel and created the "Continuum Transporter", which Skynet used to send a T-800-model Terminator to terminate Sarah Connor to stop John from coming to be, an experimental T-1000-model Terminator to kill John as a boy in case the first failed, and a T-X Terminator to kill an older Connor and his top lieutenants on Judgment Day in case the two terminators failed. Shortly after, Tech-Com found the laboratory. Connor sent three soldiers, Sergeant Kyle Reese, back in time to save Sarah (Reese ended up fathering John), a captured T-800 to protect John from the T-1000 and a captured T-850 to protect John from the T-X. After ensuring his own existence, Connor and his men then planted explosive charges around the lab and destroyed it, ensuring Skynet's total destruction, and then set about rebuilding humanity.

Alternate timeline
In the alternate timeline created by the destruction of Cyberdyne Systems Corporation by the efforts of the Connors, a T-800 Terminator and Doctor Miles Bennett Dyson, Cyber Research Systems, an independent subsidiary of the United States Air Force, purchased all patents and projects; including Skynet, and in the end the program was finished by Robert Brewster. Instead of being widely-known, Skynet was still in the development stages and the project itself kept top-secret, but the A.I. had already gained sentience despite being in a dormant state, and as such couldn't break through the firewalls of the governments weapon systems, so instead unleashed a super-virus upon the world's computer systems, which frightened the government into ordering Robert Brewster into activating Skynet, thus beginning Judgment Day.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
In the television series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it is revealed that Tech-Com sent their best agents to Pre-Judgement Day eras, to build time-displacement transporters, weapons, and secure finances in preparation for the war, protecting the Connors and others who are also pivotal in the future, thwarting Skynet's own time-travelling agents, and other specific missions. The only one who can locate them effortlessly is Cameron Phillips, a mysterious cyborg sent by the future John Connor.

The Pilot establishes that a Resistance agent, referred to by Cameron as "The Engineer," secured employment in 1963 at a bank, the Security Trust of Los Angeles, where he hid the components of an isotope-fueled weapon and a time-displacement transporter built within its vault. It is also suggested that he may be the owner of the bank. The bank is destroyed after the time displacement field is activated, and as of 2007 its site is a part of the Interstate 105 (California).

In the episode Gnothi Seauton, four Resistance members are seen living in an apartment in downtown Los Angeles in 2007. Their mission in 2007 is to help other Resistance members who have just arrived to forge identification, money, supplies, etc. Three were terminated by a T-888 Terminator; the surviving agent's whereabouts were unknown, although he was seen watching from an alley as the Connors and Cameron leave his apartment after looting valuables (money, jewels, weapons, etc.) from the apartment's safe. The episode The Turk revealed that they also been finding Skynet's creators. It also revealed that one of the members was from Ohio and his younger self is four years old in 2007. It is later revealed that his name was Sumner. In the episode,Queen's Gambit revealed that the surviving member's identity is Lieutenant 132SOC Tech-Com Derek Thomas Reese, a brother of Kyle Reese and paternal uncle of John Connor, after he is arrested, for the death of Andrew Goode, the creator of The Turk, an advanced artificial intelligence chess playing program. In the episode, Dungeons & Dragons Derek Reese has a flashback where he remembers an event in the future when he and other Tech Com soldiers are captured and held prisoner in a war torn house by a Terminator disguised as a Tech Com soldier. Reese has a conversation with another prisoner named Wisher who reveals himself to be Andy Goode. Goode tells Reese he is responsible for Judgment Day because he is one of Skynet's creators. When Reese travels to 2007, he tracks down Goode at a computer program Chess match and kills Goode.

Known members

 * Supreme General John Connor
 * Second In-Command Katherine "Kate" Brewster-Connor
 * Lieutenant General Robert Brewster (deceased)
 * Colonel Steve Earle (deceased)
 * Colonel Gabriel Stone (deceased)
 * Colonel Jackson
 * Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Parsons (deceased)
 * Captain Justin Perry
 * First Lieutenant Derek Thomas Reese
 * Lieutenant Joel Benson (deceased)
 * Lieutenant Tom Carter
 * Lieutenant Catherine Luna
 * Sergeant Doogie "Watchdog" Harris
 * Sergeant Kyle Reese (deceased)
 * Sergeant Toni Battaglia (deceased)
 * Corporal Bill Taggart (deceased)
 * Corporal Simon Anders (deceased)
 * Private Alexander Stone (Traitor)
 * Doctor Daniel "Danny" Dyson
 * Doctor Donald Hess (deceased)
 * Alice Skerrit
 * Daniel (deceased)
 * Danny Avila
 * David "Ten" Zimmerman
 * Elizabeth "Liz" Anderson (deceased)
 * Griff (deceased)
 * Jane Benson (deceased)
 * Jose Barrera (deceased)
 * Paul Keeley
 * Sumner (deceased)
 * William "Bill" Anderson (deceased)
 * William Wisher (Andrew Goode) (deceased)