While the fall is inevitable, the professor offers a small consolation: he knows how to cut the Dark Ages down to a single millennium. What follows, according to his calculations, might well be 30,000 years of darkness. Hari Seldon (the great Jared Harris, who anchored Chernobyl and grounded Mad Men), whose nascent science of psychohistory can reliably predict the behavior of masses of people, forecasts the Empire’s destruction within five centuries. You can imagine their shock when a brilliant mathematician, Dr. At any given time, three genetically identical versions of the leader preside over the capital planet, Trantor: a child called Brother Dawn (Cooper Carter as a boy and Cassian Bilton as a teen), a man in the prime of his life ( Lee Pace, bringing suaveness and hubris as Brother Day) and the white-haired sage Brother Dusk (Terrence Mann, on a sci-fi roll post- Sense8). This triumph has been attributed to the consistency with which the realm has been ruled during that era-by the Cleons, a dynasty of clone emperors. A 12,000-year-old civilization spanning a galaxy’s worth of planets with a combined human population in the trillions, the Empire has enjoyed a long period of peace. As daunting as it is, this problem pales in comparison to the one facing the futuristic Galactic Empire in Foundation, whose 10-episode first season premieres on Sept.
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