This may help with the story a bit:
Machines
- Metal, 'Nator, Skin Job - Terminator
- Triple Eights, Trip Eight - Series 888 terminator
- Tin can - Terminator / HK-Tank
- Centaur - HK-Tank
- Endo - Humanoid Hunter Killer Unit
- HK - HK-Aerials/HK-VTOLs
- Monkey Wagon - Prisoner transport
- Ogre - HK-Tank heavy variant
- Zombie - Series 950 Infiltrator (Cyborg)
Other
- Skin, tunnel rats - Resistance fighters
- Bubble tech - TDE engineer
- J Day - Judgment Day
- Scrubbed - A Terminator that has had its memory wiped and been reprogrammed