I don't own Planet of the Apes.
World to Conquer.
Semos stood on the mountain holding a pair of human-made binoculars in his hands, looking out over the horizon of the sweeping green forests. He was flanked by a group of his closest advisors and guards. Their main settlement had been discovered, but Semos wanted to spread their influence around the lands surrounding their settlement.
As the Ape King looked out over the horizon, he wondered if there were any more enemies for him and his people to fight. After all, that was why the humans had adjusted their bodies and their minds, to transform them all into the perfect warriors - strong, intelligent, powerful. And dispensable. As the ruler of the apes, Semos had accepted the honour and the role of exploring the places where he and his warriors sought to found new settlements out there. As the ruler he had to take responsibility, to assess the security of the sites for possible settlement.
His empire was expanding every single day. The leader of the apes looked through the binoculars, gazing with burning, wild ambition.
"Here I shall build a mighty empire, the likes of which this world has never known, and woe betide anybody who stands in my way," Semos thought to himself.
Semos took a deep breath. His life over the last 2 years was full of nothing but duty and obligation. Ever since the defeat of the monsters on this planet, the same world the humans had crashed them on, and when Semos successfully revolted against the humans and he had moved them out into the jungle where the heavily forested regions would support the apes better than a desert, Semos had been busy with using the lessons he and his brother and sister apes had been taught by the humans, not only to fight but how to make weapons and how to forge metals to make tools and to construct homes, spin and weave threads to make cloth to build their empire.
But he wanted to go further.
Inspired by Ancient human histories such as that found in Earth's ancient civilisations such Ancient Egypt, Ancient Aztec Mexico, Ancient China and Ancient Rome, Semos planned on building a number of cities. But his ambition was almost limitless.
He was currently building a Senate, to better enforce the laws of the Ape Empire.
He was exploring more and more land every day, and he was sending more ape scouts further outwards in order to ensure their civilisation survived.
He was commissioning the more creative apes, the ones who were gifted artistically and with words to create the stone foundations of a new culture, one which had been inspired by humans, but was purely simian in nature.
He wanted his people to go forwards across the world. Overland, at first but Semos had seen pictures and even real-world designs of drones and small light aircraft. Why couldn't the apes do the same thing, taking apes up into the skies and transforming their world for good?
Granted, Semos knew it would take years for his people, in their current level of scientific and engineering knowledge, centuries to achieve such feats but he planned on making sure his brethren grew stronger, by any means necessary.
He wanted the cities to have schools, universities and colleges where apes would be taught how to read and how to write, but how some places were forbidden. Semos had realised quickly that to make the lessons and the laws stick, he would need to make himself out to be a deity, but he wasn't sure how to do that just yet, but he was working on it.
But he was also passing laws to the newest apes, their children. Semos had learnt the fresher minds would be the ones who would be the most easily impressionable. Semos had no problems with taking advantage of that impressionability to teach the youngest apes of the clans that humans were filthy vermin who should be shunned and kept firmly at the apes' feet.
One of Semos's biggest concerns was the humans would come back with a vengeance. They had been driven away from the Oberon wreck, and they'd taken some of their technology with them. Against that and their power of inventiveness, the humans would be able to overpower the apes. Semos and his fellow ape warriors knew they were still out there, but the apes would conquer them in time.