‎The Skynet VLA was a Skynet outpost in operation in 2018, containing weapons data and prisoners. The facility was buried beneath the sands of the desert and portions of it were flooded. A Resistance assault team led by General Olsen and John Connor attacked the base in order to rescue the prisoners and gather critical data in the planning of a coordinated strike against Skynet. While Connor worked to rescue a group of prisoners being transported by a Skynet Transport, a Resistance technician named Barbarossa triggered a Skynet booby trap, which detonated a tactical nuke[citation needed], causing the base to explode, killing all but Connor, who was in a helicopter pursuing a prison transport at the time.