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No name was given on camera for the city of apes in the 2001 version. However, the production artwork identifies the ape city as "Derkein." Derkein reappears as the name for the ape city in the Diamond Comic series based in the same world of Tim Burton's POTA. Derkein appears to be derived from a Greek word which gave the English word "dragon."
OUR PRESENT DAY:A)super-smart ape (Pericles) enters wormholeB)man ("Capt. Leo Davidson") enters wormholeC)ship (temple) enters wormholePREHISTORIC EARTH 1): The ship (full of super-smart apes and crew members) is transported to a prehistoric Earth.The many humans find themselves stranded and do their best to survive. Some have children and allow the apes to procreate as well. They eventually run out of supplies on the ship and are forced to let the apes out of their captivity. The apes eventually get smart enough to exist without the humans' help.As the apes grow smarter, the humans find them a possible threat...especially one ape on-board, named Semos. Insulted by the human's authority over the apes, they revolt and attack the remaining humans (as evidenced by the cut-off broadcast).2) Led by Semos (the smartest and most aggressive ape of all), the apes seal off the crash site of the ship and deem it the "Forbidden Zone". They are very smart, and form small villages, where they are relatively peaceful and prosperous. Humans subsist like animals outside the cities, with others being enslaved within ape households, doing manual labour, functioning as entertainment, and living as pets.3) Semos becomes regarded as the progenitor of the race (and a messiah figure, who is destined to return), with his bloodline held in royalty. He is the father of Zaius (General Thade's father), whom he tells of stories of the apes original state as "pets" and shows him a gun as proof.4) Many years pass. Semos dies. Humans eventually lose all knowledge of a world beyond captivity.5) What we see in the movie:Capt. Leo Davidson comes out of wormhole and leads the rebellion over the apes. He follows his homing beacon to the original crash site, and discovers the ship had preceded him through the wormhole thousands of years ago. He sees the broadcast by the crewmembers that details the ape rebellion, the rise of ape Semos as a threat, and their eventual demise.6) Following the "first one in, last one out" wormhole theory, the first-in-the-wormhole Pericles arrives in the Alpha Pod. Capt. Leo Davidson uses the pod to escape the Planet of the Apes.7) Captain Leo Davidson arrives in a highly evolved world, filled with apes that have advanced to the level of modern human society (as evidenced by the statue of "Ape-raham Lincoln", a monument to General Thade, who ostensibly rose to power under martial law and killing the threatening humans).Instead of stopping the apes from enslaving humanity, he has given them a reason to take zero hesitation on whether to kill a human or not, as evidenced by the deification of the brutal, anti-human General Thade. The human race has thus been rendered virtually extinct, and the apes will continue to evolve.8) The movie ends.
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