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| - On January 14, 1972 ANSA astronauts Taylor, Dodge, Landon and Stewart were launched from Cape Kennedy. During the course of their flight, the craft passed through a Hasslein Curve, a time warp, propelling them through time. Soon after, in November 1972, ANSA astronauts Brent and Maddox were launched along the same flight path as the previous vessel to probe its unexplained disappearance. Like Taylor's craft before them, they slipped through a Hasslein Curve, and traveled through time, losing contact with home. In 2503, New York City was a technologically advanced city.
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| - On January 14, 1972 ANSA astronauts Taylor, Dodge, Landon and Stewart were launched from Cape Kennedy. During the course of their flight, the craft passed through a Hasslein Curve, a time warp, propelling them through time. Soon after, in November 1972, ANSA astronauts Brent and Maddox were launched along the same flight path as the previous vessel to probe its unexplained disappearance. Like Taylor's craft before them, they slipped through a Hasslein Curve, and traveled through time, losing contact with home. NASA astronauts Jeff Allen, Bill Hudson and Judy Franklin were launched from Earth. Their vessel entered an energy distortion on August 6, 1976 and disappeared into the future. ANSA astronauts Virdon, Burke and Jones were launched from Earth. Their ship encountered an electrical storm near Alpha Centauri on August 19, 1980 and disappeared. In 2018, a chimp with gentically-enhanced intelligence, named Caesar, led a mass escape of similarly enhanced apes from San Francisco into the nearby Muir Woods Park. The same virus which gave them intelligence was fatal to some humans and quickly spread worldwide. A plague wiped out most pet dogs and cats. Hundreds and thousands of them died, and hundreds and thousands of them had to be destroyed. In order to replace lost pets, humans took primitive apes as pets. In the course of less than two centuries, the apes progressed from performing mere tricks to performing services. On August 6, 2109, Colonel Ron Brent left Earth from a launch pad in the Mojave Desert. His ship encountered the familiar electrical storm and disappeared. Cape Kennedy had been turned into a museum sixty years before he was born. In 2503, New York City was a technologically advanced city. After three more centuries of servitude, the apes learned the art of corporate and militant action, and turned the tables on their owners, inspired by a speaking ape named Aldo. As humanity fell to ape domination, a committee of human scientists left video recordings and caches of technological equipment at centers around the country, including one at Oakland, California. Around 3075, human astronauts from another time crash landed in what was once south-western United States. They were quickly killed. During 3085, ANSA astronauts Alan Virdon and Pete Burke, who were launched originally in 1980, crash landed in the same region. They survived (unlike their fellow astronaut Jones, who died). The area was inhabited by both speaking humans and apes. However, these humans worked for apes under strict control. At this time the ape government which ruled over most of the area was an orangutan faction headed by Councilor Zaius. General Urko, a gorilla, worked with him, but was constantly reminded that Zaius was in charge. Urko despised the situation. More important to Zaius and Urko was the constant threat of the renegade astronauts starting a human rebellion. The astronauts gained a chimpanzee named Galen as a friend and traveling companion. They found a book with a photo of New York City dated 2503, revealing that they had returned to Earth after an ape take-over during the previous five centuries. They also found the vault of scientific equipment hidden in Oakland, but it was immediately destroyed by the superstitious apes. After many adventures together, Galen witnessed the two astronauts find a computer and disappear into space just as suddenly as they'd arrived, though where to is unknown. Galen grew old with a treasure trove of ancient electrical gadgets and even a power source to drive them. In 3954, the ANSA spacecraft launched in January of 1972 containing four astronauts entered the atmosphere. The ship crash-landed in an inland salt lake somewhere in what was once the north-east United States. Stewart's cryogenic capsule had ruptured during the course of the flight, and the conditions during flight had mummified her corpse. Shortly after reviving the surviving crew, the ship foundered. Reaching shore in a raft, the astronauts journeyed across the barren desert to a forested area, where they found a tribe of wild humans grazing on planted crops. This was where they found what was once the human race, but mute and primitive. As they began to intermingle with the group, they found themselves in the middle of a gorilla man-hunt, where Taylor and Landon were captured but separated, and Dodge was killed. Taken to Ape City, Doctors Zira and Cornelius eventually discovered Taylor's superior intelligence. In an area of the Forbidden Zone, Cornelius had found remnants of a past civilization; toys, human dolls that talk and lots more that depicted humans as the superior race. This proved that man came before apes or at least was at one time more advanced. Dr. Zaius had the cave destroyed, along with the evidence of the prior civilization. Cornelius and Zira were arrested, and set to face charges of heresy. Taylor and Nova escaped farther into the Forbidden Zone, where Taylor discovered that he had landed on Earth in his future. Shortly after, Taylor was lost in a mysterious void near the Forbidden Zone. Nova was left alone in the middle of the desert on their horse. By 3955, General Ursus sent gorilla scouts into the Forbidden Zone, who were captured by a mysterious race living in the region. Meanwhile, Doctor Milo was trying to repair Taylor's rescued spacecraft. Brent and Maddox crash landed near where Taylor disappeared, but Brent was the only survivor. After he buried his Skipper, he encountered Nova. They went to Ape City and after an encounter with Zira and Cornelius, they headed back to the Forbidden Zone and into a subway tunnel where Mutants using telekinesis to manipulate their thoughts toyed with them. They discovered Taylor who was also a prisoner. The Mutants were interrupted by an ape army who invaded their underground dwelling. Zaius had gone with them, leaving Zira and Cornelius as the guardians of the terrible secrets regarding Earth's true history. Shocked by what they learned, they were completely disillusioned with ape society. Zira, Milo and Cornelius secretly launched Taylor's repaired craft. Meanwhile, Nova and Brent were shot and died on the spot. As the apes tried to pull down the Alpha-Omega missile in the Mutant's church, Taylor, mortally wounded, reached the control panel and detonated the Doomsday Device. With the blast, a catalytic reaction spread across the globe in minutes. Shockwaves of tremendous energy from the blast cascaded into space and struck the spacecraft containing Doctors Milo, Cornelius and Zira. The ship was thrown by the force of the blast into a Hasslein Curve and cast back to 1973.
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