Like said, I see the gorillas as "human cullers" and when there is a need
for an "Army" then who better to assemble?

But then I guess the "General" was a general for some time....HMMMM....

-----Original Message-----
From: mlccougar@... [mailto:mlccougar@...]
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 7:43 AM
To: friends_and_fugitives@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [pota_tv] An Urko question...


In a message dated 7/4/2004 3:02:01 PM Central Standard Time,
urko3085@... writes:

> The answer is obvious: They don't have an army, they have a
police/security
> force, and Urko is Chief of Security.

Well, that's not entirely true, they do have an army too... I mean in the
novel of BENEATH, they are called "The Grand Army of the Apes" or something
like
that... As to why they even have one at all, I think it'd be there just in
case there ever "would be" a danger, they are being vigilant... (After all,
"The
prudent Ape is prepared for the worse...")

As to Urko though, he isn't a General, he is, as stated, Chief of
Security...
In the TV series, there are references to military, like in "The Legacy"
when
Galen sees the Gorillas, he calls them soldiers, so they do have an army...
Urko is Chief of ALL security forces, and maybe these soldiers are a branch
of
these forces, overseen by him...

(That's the tricky part, how to resolve the soldiers vs. police... Had it
not
been for BENEATH getting the army thing going, then it'd be easy to assume
all Gorillas are police/security forces as seen in the original PLANET...
But
Dehn created an army for BENEATH, and then the Gorillas in BATTLE were an
army
too, so it's a hodge-podge of things I guess...)


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