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[Terminator]Had The T-800 succeeded in its mission to kill Sarah Connor, what would it have done afterward?

Would it have had a secondary mission to hold up in an isolated area to wait for Skynet to be created?
gpt
It would probably go into hiding or destroy itself. The more it changes to the timeline it makes, the more it risks accidentally preventing Skynet from being created in the first place. As a straightforward example, if it happened to be captured people would eventually figure out that it's a killer robot from the future whose components are based on Cyberdyne Systems' research. Cyberdyne would lose their contracts, and Skynet would never be developed. Any number of actions could have similar unintended consequences, so the Terminator would be programmed not to do anything beyond the scope of its mission. Even going after Sarah Connor was a risk, but it was a desperate move.