Crystal Peak (Terminator)

Crystal Peak, in the 2003 film "", is a fictional fallout shelter built deep underground in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

In the movie, the center was apparently built by the U.S. Government during the height of the Cold War as a continuity of government center for VIPs of the military and federal government. Like the real Cheyenne Mountain, it is deep underground and outfitted with extensive survival supplies and life support systems to survive a nuclear war.

The complex has an emergency television and radio broadcast center, which is fitted with a backdrop and podium for the President of the United States. It also has an extensive set of computer equipment, but, like the furniture, it all dates back to the 1960s. There is also a communications radio system in place, used by John Connor to communicate with Montana Civil Defense in the last moments of the film.

Crystal Peak 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. 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center and facilities that can be used to shut down Skynet, but is confused as to why the General would send them to an outdated shelter for VIPs. Kate, in an epiphany, realizes it was her father's goal to ensure they would live. John finally realizes that Skynet, being distributed computing, never had a control center or system core that could be 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."

It can be inferred this is the headquarters of the resistance throughout the war.Or|date=July 2008

Crystal Peak is also a code name for the United States Defense Base NORAD.

External links

* [http://www.countingdown.com/features?feature_id=2455416 Crystal Peak set visit]
* [http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/t/terminator-3-script-transcript-schwarzenegger.html Terminator 3 script]