Infosphere:Featured article for fortnight 18 of 2013



Simian 7 is the planet of the primates. According to Guenter, it was colonised by a band of genetically engineered primates from Earth, led by the brave monkey Christopher Colobus. The primates harbor resentment towards humans, because humans experimented on them and caged them in zoos for centuries, and so humans are forbidden on the planet. Simian 7 has its own literature, music, and art, and also a great maritime museum.

In 3013, Planet Express made a delivery to a financial-services corporation there, and Fry and Leela, as well as Leela's old boyfriend Sean and his wife &mdash; Darlene &mdash;, were the subject of a behavioural experiment in one of the planet's zoos, which tricked them into thinking that they were in a romantic holiday. (more...)