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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 Dark Horse Comics 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."

1. Thade is locked inside the Oberon with Pericles.

2. The Oberon still has power.

3. The Oberon still has pods onboard.

4. Pericles is trained to go to the pods, and he is trained to fly a pod.

5. Pericles either trains Thade how to fly the pod and/or Thade enters the pod with Pericles and he flys the pod through the storm, to Earth.

6. Thade lands in the early part of the 21st Century ( BEFORE Leo arrives ) he is captured and placed in a primate research facility, where he encounters genetically enhanced chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.

7. The project is huge and consists of thousands genetically enhanced primates.

8. Thade sows the seeds of rebellion to these apes, and as his movement grows, so does primate intelligence.

9. Testing on Thade yields human researchers the key to speeding up ape evolution, the apes have now grown smarter much faster than in Leos time, what would have taken thousands of years now has taken a fraction of the time.

10. After years in captivity and thousands under his influence, Thade launches a coordinated rebellion quickly gaining access to weapons and key facilities.

11. A long and bloody struggle ensued, lasting several years.

12. Eventually, Earth is conquered by apes.

13. Leo lands finding an Earth now conquered by apes, and the Lincoln Memorial is altered, and the technology is the same as 21st century Earth.