The Terminator (1984)

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

In The Terminator, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “machine apocalypse”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, survival, power.