Brother Dawn

The fact that three emperors are ruling this, not just this planet, but the entire empire.

The youngest of the three emperors, known as Brother Dawn.

The middle-aged one is Day, who is kind of the current monarch, always played by Lee Pace.

And then the oldest is known as Brother Dusk, who is like the older retired emperor who kind of serves as like an advisor to the current emperor.

Avengers, same thing.

Yeah, anyway, genocides.

Anyway, so then we are off to where Brother Dawn is here to receive the Anacreon and the Thespian delegations, along with Demerzel, who is kind of teaching Brother Dawn some of the things.

Observe the mannerisms of them, right? That these two kingdoms hate each other.

That is the core of psychohistory.

But then the show introduces three clones of the original emperor, Brother Dawn, Brother Day, and Brother Dusk, all ruling simultaneously at different ages.

With Lee Pace playing the middle clone, Brother Day.

Right.

To solve the problem of a timeline that spans centuries, the show introduces the concept that the Galactic Empire is ruled by three cloned emperors who exist simultaneously at different, highly specific stages of life.

Dawn, Day, and Dusk.

Exactly.

They are named Brother Dawn, the young learner, Brother Day, the ruling emperor in his prime, and Brother Dusk, the aging advisor.

I want you to just sit with the profound psychology of that concept for a second.

Imagine sitting at a dinner table.