"Yes." The Terminator agrees again. "There is a high probability that attempting to work for the Empire to secure passage back to my own dimension would violate my core mission parameters." Instructions it had received from John, that an authoritarian state like the Empire seemed likely to feel insignificant. That is not a distinction the Terminator can make.

...It had also extrapolated based on available data that John would disapprove of it attempting to work with the Empire, as there were enough similarities between how it and Skynet operated to anticipate that such a decision would be forbidden, and thus this had been incorporated into its existing parameters.

It stops for a moment, and looks back at its companion. "You are also an artificial form of life, correct?"