Following the release of Terminator: Resistance‘s latest DLC, titled ‘Infiltrator Mode‘, we recorded a playthrough video, which led us to begin documenting the numerous Terminator easter eggs scattered throughout the DLC by Teyon Games and Reef Entertainment. We then asked fellow Terminator Fans if they had managed to find any easter eggs that we might have missed, and the community responded with plenty of enthusiasm…
Though we quickly realised that there were more easter eggs than we had first considered when fans used the comments section of our Youtube channel to update us on their own progress – on our second easter egg hunt we were tipped off by Youtuber CliffuckingBooth, as to the existence of an endoskeleton arm located in the game:
“… one more easter egg (Terminator arm). Its in the middle of the map and you need to go through the window to find it.”
CliffuckingBooth
The exact location of the arm was difficult to find, following the limitations of the description, but we scoured the map and found what we believed to be the correct area: in the upstairs of a hospital, through a window to an outside ledge, and back in through another window – was indeed the endo arm.
The arm sits propped between an arrangement of rubble on a hospital cart, the decoration of which resembles a shrine, in front of a wall with slightly obscured graffiti scrawled upon it.
The text reads:
“J-DAY WAS INSIDE JO- ”
Terminator: Resistance
So, ‘Judgment Day was an inside job‘ – the sentence is accompanied by the notorious symbol for the secretive society of the Freemasons… ‘The Eye of Providence‘ – the image of the eye and the pyramid is meant to denote the eye of God watching over the world, and is shown on the United States one dollar-bill.
The Freemasons have been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories over the years and are also closely associated with the Illuminati.
A pyramid watching over the world… most likely the SkyNet pyramid in this instance.
This is not the first indication of conflict in the human side of the war against machines… which caused us start to wonder…
Earlier on in the game we found more graffiti on the flood canal (the text was reversed), this time stating that:
“THE RESISTANCE ARE THE REAL ENEMY”
This same graffiti was repeated in the hospital with the arm.
Also on the flood canal…
“HASTE MAKES WASTE”
Infiltrator Mode DLC
… then more graffiti near that of the iconic Sarah Connor…
“DELIVER US FROM EVIL”
Infiltrator Mode DLC
The image of Sarah Connor is at first reassuring; the Resistance finding consolation and comfort in the guardian image of the mother-of-the-future herself – but the depiction of that legendary Terminator 2: Judgment Day picture is in the same style as the text attacking the Resistance; suggesting that the graffiti of Sarah Connor, and its accompanying text, is not pro-Connor or the Resistance at all, it’s actually against them.
This wouldn’t be the first time in the history of the Terminator franchise that there has been an opposing human force to the Connors, the Resistance or the side of good…
In S.M Stirling‘s Terminator 2 series of novels (beginning in 2001 with T2: Infiltrator), there is a character named Ron Labane – Mr. Labane is a radical environmentalist, who creates an anti-government organization based on his dissertation: “The New Luddite Manifesto“.
The organization’s aim was to save the world from itself via terrorist activities, but following Labane’s rather messy, *ahem*, de-platforming, SkyNet utilized his fame and notoriety to convince the remaining ‘Luddites‘ that what had transpired was actually the result of a government cover-up – with the group ultimately aiding the super-computer’s nefarious schemes.
The theme of pro-SkyNet once again arose in the 2002 Playstation 2 and Xbox game, ‘The Terminator: Dawn of Fate‘…
Alexander ‘Alex’ Stone is a Resistance fighter who, following the apparent death of his brother Gabriel, blames John Connor and Kyle Reese for the loss of his sibling; later defecting to help SkyNet upon learning that his brother was in fact still alive, and had seemingly joined SkyNet’s forces against the Resistance.
So, could DLC 2 of the Terminator: Resistance game open up the idea of the Resistance and John Connor having to combat, not only SkyNet, but also human defectors and / or conspiracy theorists; bent on aiding the dark design of the rogue AI system – to sabotage the Resistance and gain the upper hand in the war between man and machine… ?
Would you be interested in a new DLC for Terminator: Resistance which could see the presence of a SkyNet-worshipping, anti-Resistance cult?
Have you found any graffiti in the DLC that you think applies to this theory – that we already haven’t mentioned?
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