Digital Three (The Three Kingdoms)

The Digital Three is an unofficial group of three digital superpowers that dominated events during, consisting of , and. Between the three of them, they control the vast majority of the.

Relationship
The Digital Three, with all intents and purposes, are enemies of each other. Skynet wishes to finish a to allow s to go back to their own worlds. Yggdrasil opposes this and intends to force everyone to stay put on native. The Director is ideologically neutral but, as part of his programming, demands that the universe obeys his rules, which interferes with the plans of the other two.

Parallels can be drawn between the Digital Three and where balance of power existed by none of the three belligerents being overwhelmingly powerful, two sides fighting each other would only benfit the third side. However, the main difference between the two sets of three was that The Three Kingdoms were isolationist, due to eventually becoming the dominant power. The Digital Three, despite being at war, continue to cooperate with each other against a third side (such as the Director and Skynet against Yggdrasil) and on issues that would benefit all three of them (such as ).

Due to Yggdrasil being unable to control s and only affecting humans, the Director considers Yggdrasil and those he controls as s. By their nature, the Director's  attack Carriers making peaceful co-existence between the two very difficult. Skynet, on the other hand, can control humans while the Director cannot keep control of those whose Infection has gone past initial stages (at least without using Sasaki). Thus Skynet can control the Infected and is considered Infected, and thus friendly, by the Director. However, Skynet has been keen on exploiting the Director and his rules, which he has not ignored.

Sentience
The Director is clearly the least sentient of the three, obeying his structured programming and possessing very little free will, or at least enthusiasm. Skynet also follows her programming but is less constrained in the methods she can pursue to reach her goals. Yggdrasil is fully sentient and has a very human personality and thought process. However, this has the disadvantage of Yggdrasil being unable to keep up with the digital advancements of the other two and being resistant to change.

Power
Skynet is noticeably the weaker one when it comes to power. While she has the potential to rewrite most of the universe to her will, both the Director and Yggdrasil oppose her with and, respectively, who are individually more powerful than Skynet herself. In comparison, apart from herself, Skynet's strongest asset is.