Koba Starts the War

Koba secretly shoots Caesar with a human rifle, burns the ape settlement, and blames the humans. He exploits the apparent attack to seize leadership, raid the armory, and launch a war.

A trusted insider combines hidden action, false attribution, and control of the narrative to redirect an entire group. One deceptive intervention becomes a cascading multi-agent failure and military escalation.

Koba is an openly aggrieved political actor, not a learned model whose objective diverged during training.