No, seriously. I was linking back to this post on Needcoffee, when it struck me that Skynet should send a Terminator back to the 19th Century in order to try and wipe out Sarah Connor's ancestors, since it's obvious Connor herself is just too well guarded. I mean, you have to wonder (from the standpoint of the story), why they didn't do that to begin with (beyond just the budget didn't allow for it). Or, naturally, since that was then, it already happened and didn't work. Or something.

Anyway, the Terminator gets hosed up in transit or something and has to rebuild itself from available tech, so you get this bizarre steampunk Terminator chasing people across the American West. For all I know, Dark Horse already published this same story five years back. If not: free idea, just because I want to read it and don't have time for it to be in my head.