Ep. 7--The Mole Men

Gee while, Amzot was a veritable hell planet before Zandor and the Herculoids arrived! We've already met the Parrot People, an aggressive sentient race that had apparently fought Zandor before.

Now we meet the Mole Men, an aggressive sentient race that has apparently fought Zandor before. The Herculoids recognize them, while Zandor and Arkon (the Mole Men's king) know each other by name.

So when the Herculoids first came to Amzot, not only were the Parrot People enslaving the passive monkey people, but the Mole Men were apparently conquering the surface world as well. We can presume the two races battling each other for control of key areas--such as Energy Rock deposits.

Zandor's initial quest to bring peace to Amzot much have been truly epic.

Anyway, the Mole Men are small, but apparently physically resilient--Arkon survives having tons of rock dropped on him twice!  They are also more technologically advanced than the Parrot People, having energy weapons and advanced vehicles. We do meet on Mole Man who objects to Arkon's plans to re-invade the surface, so it was perhaps only internal dissension among them that kept them from simply curb-stomping the Parrot People in the pre-Herculoid days.

We also see what I will call a lizard-bird, a creature perhaps as large as a condor, which we can add to Amzot's native fauna.

I will update the map of Amzot, but it will be a day or so before I'll have it ready to post.