originalskriptet för Terminator gör det tydligt klart att Skynet utvecklat och byggt "Time displacement" -tekniken på egen hand, använder terminatorerna som arbetsstyrka:
REESE: ...it had no choice. The defensive grid was smashed. We'd taken the mainframes... We'd won. Taking out Connor then would make no difference. Skynet had to wipe out his entire existence. We captured the lab complex. Found the...whatever it was called...the time-displacement equipment. The Terminator had already gone through. They sent two of us to intercept, then zeroed the whole place. Sumner didn't make it.
Detta säkerhetskopieras sedan av den officiella novelleringen för Terminator 2: Judgment Day , där vi (den allvetna läsaren) lär oss av resonemanget bakom Skynets forskning om tidsteknik, för användning som vapen:
Until one day the tide of battle turned, and Skynet, in a desperate burst of brilliance, devised time displacement, the first tactical time weapon. It sent a lethal emissary back through time to find and eliminate Sarah, so that John Connor might never be born.
Det kan också intressera dig att veta att enligt den officiella novelleringen för Terminator: Maskinens uppstigning , den grundläggande teoretiska grunden för TDE gjordes av Einstein och Hawking på 50-talet och 1980-talet (innan Skynet blev aktiv):
The super black project, funded by the Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, and National Security Agency, was designed to create an artificial wormhole. Einstein had first suggested such a phenomenon, and the English theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking had done some work on the possibility. But the problem was power. By most calculations the wattage needed to create an infinitesimally tiny wormhole, in other words a passageway through space-time, would take almost all the energy ever produced in the universe since the moment of the big bang.
Tydligen använde Skynet sin gigantiska hjärna för att övervinna denna begränsning.