Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-26826553-20160511122029/@comment-26826553-20160517113249

DatDramaPlant wrote: The Ancient Pult Ancestor wrote:

Besides, it's Cyphin (already a T-3000) from the future who turned the past Cyphin into a T-3000, so you could say he "programmed himself" to protect Mineski. That sounds a little paradoxical... Exactly the point. The concept of Cyphin being converted that way (his future self, already a T-3000, touched his past self & turned him into a T-3000) was made ever since the second or third database thread. I intended that. The terminator movies? They all involve a hell lot of paradoxes. Kyle Reese, a young man from the future, becomes the father of the hero (John Connor) who would send him back in time (so his mom gave birth to him way before his dad was born!), a wrecked T-800 made by SkyNET becoming the basis for SkyNET technology, bla bla bla...

 Paradoxes are also good. That way, no one would really know who really turned Cyphin into a T-3000 in the first place (in the original timeline), thanks to the paradoxical loop that maintains itself.

Even the concept of terminators here is a paradox. In AD 600,000, a [time-travelling] Zomboss discovered the arm of a T-800. He then reverse-engineered it & made terminators, passing down the info to his present self. See? Paradox. And I'm not done with making more.