Space Monkey

Space Monkeys are first introduced in Ascension. They are similar to the Pentagon Thief by stealing the players' weapons, except they steal the player Perks in the form of attacking the Perk machines. They replace the Hellhounds on this map. The space monkeys will attack a perk machine until the player loses his/her perk. Once the machine has been disabled the player must re-buy the perk. Therefore, it would seem that the effect of Perks are linked to either the machines or the monkeys. If the players successfully kill all monkeys without having any machines attacked then they will drop a mystery cola at the end of a round, giving the player a random perk. The monkeys arrive in rockets crashing onto the ground. We can assume that they are related in some way to Yuri Kravchski, due to an excerpt from his rant in the second radio message, "My intellect is ill served blasting a bunch of monkeys into the atmosphere!". We can also assume that they have been exposed to 115, due to their eyes, and increased physical capabilities. This might also hint that the rockets were powered by 115.

It should be noted that if the player has obtained a Perk from the Mystery Cola and have not opened the area in which the Perk-A-Cola is in, the Space Monkeys will not attack that Perk Machine.

Trivia

 * When space monkeys die, they appear to release a red pulse of some kind.
 * The space monkeys use a modified model of the monkeys from Rebirth Island
 * Monkey rounds will only occur after at least one player has purchased a perk.
 * They have glowing eyes, indicating that they are infected.
 * Unlike Hellhounds, they do as much damage as a Zombie.
 * The monkeys also appear to be resistant to the effects of the Thundergun, as they simply perform a back-flip and continue to attack the player. A second well placed, consecutive shot should kill them.
 * When a Gersch Device is used on the monkeys they willingly jump through the singularity, however this only teleports them to another part of the map and doesn't harm them at all.
 * Monkeys can destroy claymores without damaging themselves.
 * Monkeys can throw back frag grenades so they have no effect.

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