Crystal Peak (science fiction)
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- This article refers to the fictional facility in Terminator 3.
Crystal Peak is a large subterranean fallout shelter in the Sierra Nevada (US) mountain range, apparently built by the U.S. Government during the height of the Cold War as a last resort for government and military VIPs. It is deep underground and outfitted with an extensive computer bay (although the computers are around 30 years old and no longer function), emergency TV broadcast center, which is fitted with a backdrop and podium for the President of the USA, 1960's style furnishings, and ample survival supplies, including food. There is also a radio system in place, used by Connor to communicate with Montana Civil Defense in the last moments of the film.
It is where Kate's father, General Robert Brewster, sends John and Kate at the end of Terminator 3, to safely endure the onset of Judgment Day. Prior to his death, General Brewster tells John and Kate it was where they could find SkyNet's system core. Connor is expecting to find a modern computer-control center and facilities that can be used to shut down SkyNet, but is confused as to why the Terminator did not stop them from entering the outdated shelter for VIPs even though it knew Crystal Peak was not the site of Skynet. Kate, in an epiphany, realizes it was its mission, to ensure they would live. John finally realizes that SkyNet is simply distributed software and there never was a control-center or system core to shut down. As John's final narration indicates:
- "I should have realized our destiny was never to stop Judgment Day. It was merely to survive it."
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