The T-3000's sole mission is to protect and ensure the ultimate survival of Skynet, which seeks to eliminate the human race with its global machine network.

[10] This Terminator travels through many timelines searching for a way to defeat the Human Resistance and ultimately infiltrates it under the guise of a fighter named Alex.

As Kyle is being sent back in time to protect John's mother Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) from the T-800 Terminator sent to kill her in 1984, "Alex" carries out his attack.

John Connor's conversion into a Terminator as Kyle travels back in time turns out to be such a major event that it causes a grandfather paradox that fractures the timeline, completely rewriting the past and the future.

When Sarah and Kyle arrive in 2017, he meets them at a hospital and convinces them that he is John Connor, but his disguise is exposed by the Guardian (a reprogrammed T-800 portrayed by Schwarzenegger).

Unlike previous Terminators, the T-3000 transforms and regenerates in layers, beginning with its bone structure, then muscle tissue, skin and clothing; the phase matter can also simulate blood if necessary for infiltration.

If struck by this laser, the T-3000 can suffer enough external damage to render its outermost layer irreparably compromised, forcing it to discard its human appearance and use its true machine form.

The T-3000 is still susceptible to some degrees of physical injuries and pains such as being wounded by gunshot, and its agonies can worsen if being marred by SWAT-standard breaching rounds since they typically are magnetic; the explosive ones are more effective against the cyborg for minutes of impairment.