take your hands off me youdamn dirty ape

Attar was initially uninterested, thinking that Seneca came only to recruit him for the insurrection and told him to leave when asked about Calima, until the former senator further elaborated the reasons of his visit. Old Gods and Blood Lines), Attar was contacted by Seneca who questioned him concerning the events that happened about twelve years earlier at Calima (the site from where Leo Davidson departed and where Thade was imprisoned), after Fyn leaked out information about Shiva planning to conduct an expedition there. Many years later, in the events of Dark Horse Comics' The Human War and Planet of the Apes comics #1-6 (a.k.a. The colonel decreed that the graves outside the Calima ruins would be left unmarked so that both apes and humans would be equally mourned. Attar turned against Thade for betraying their fellow apes, and believing in a lie telling the disgraced general: 'I won't help you anymore'.

He realized that Thade, Thade's father, and the elders of ape society had been misleading the population for centuries and he took the side of Leo, Ari and the humans. When the space pod piloted by Pericles landed on the battle field, he and the other ape soldiers dropped their weapons believing it was the return of their god. Attar learned the art of fighting under his teacher Krull, whom he had to fight and kill in the ultimate battle. He even went into a rage after Leo deliberately set the tent where Attar kept his personal shrine of Semos on fire. Attar demanded that everyone bow their heads before dinner so a prayer to Semos could be delivered. One key difference though was that he was a devoted follower of the ape religion based on the worship of the first ape, Semos. He was the loyal lieutenant of General Thade and enjoyed the thrill of hunting humans.

Take your hands off me youdamn dirty ape