OT: Non-human primates and firearms

[rcaf_777]

"I'll get a bunch of monkeys, dress them up, and make them re-enact the Civil War..." "Couldn't hurt. Unless the monkeys start hurting people. Which they almost certainly would"

Just remember if hang out with monkey for a long time your going to get ticks

[Bullet Magnet]

Chimps & the like carrying rifles Maybe a bit of a stretch for Twilight 2000, but it might work for Twilight 2050 or 2100.

Considering the delays in scientific research caused by the war, Project Zaius may take a bit longer to get into full swing.

[waiting4something]

One of the episodes on Monster Quest talked about how Stalin had tried to make chimp/human hybrids to help increase the numbers in his army. They hoped to breed hybrids with the best of both worlds- human smarts and chimp strength. Neither female chimp or human could get pregnant with the other species semen.

[Tombot]

armed apes

Reminds me of the original Planet of the Apes films where the apes, specifically the Gorillas, were armed with rifles.

It works as an idea for a game though - you just have to justify why the apes are now intelligent enough to use firearms. For example I ran a Morrow Project inspired game a few years ago where Alien invaders were breeding (and mentally enhancing) apes to use them as foot soldiers in their war against the humans.

As a little boy i got my hands on the marvel-comics (i didnt saw the movies at that age) , and i am sure thats what started my love for post-apocalyptic settings (intensified in a different way by MadMax a bit later).
Horse-riding gorillas with carbines, slugging it out with an army of mutated bunker-dwellers in an abandoned desert-wasteland...
None of my childhood-friends knew about that apes-stuff (which i was obsessed with as a kid) and i was the only one, craving for a line of action-figures like for star wars... (the mego-stuff was nowhere in sight in germany).
So i collected lots of "naked gorillas" in the form of chewbacca...

PS:
Targan wrote: "When you look into the eyes of a chimp, bonobo, orang or gorilla you can tell there is a person in there. A really weird (from our point of view) person admittedly, but they have their own complicated lives, wants and desires."
Very well said, exactly what i thought sometimes, but i didnt found these words. I would even go as far, as expanding that to most non-primate animals as well. Call me a tree-hugger, if you like.
But if you ever had a cat or a dog, which you loved, than youll know that there is something to it. And a good video, btw.

[WallShadow]

been there, done that (kinda)

Project Zaius has a precursor, as outlined in Twilight Nightmares--wherein laboratory-created genetically-modified dogs (Neodogs) are trying to get PCs help to free a 4th Neodog from a dangerous situation. One of them can write, after a fashion, and leaves crayon-scrawled notes to communicate. And they are capable of reproducing (the female is pregnant).