Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-6032121-20190914173756/@comment-4000564-20200730011709

Emperor!s continuity is a tough beast to explain (would not recommend to newcomers!). Writing about the only bit relevant to the 2DW (all confined to Part Two) was a timey-wimey nightmare. The two wars aren't really related - the IR Civil War-era Daleks go back in time to save Daak from the Death Wheel, send him to Hell to find the Doctor, then they scoop them all out of the 26th century and the 2DW is no longer relevant to the story.

Parts Three to Six of Emperor! - the main bulk - bridge the gap between Revelation and Remembrance. Though the Emperor (... Empemperor?) is having trouble with Davros, there's no real war until Davros' Spiridon army attacks and pushes all the way back to Skaro. A text box calls this "the first round of what will become a bitter civil war", so that's what the paragraph means when it says civil war is "brewing". (This takes place after 4590 based on the Resurrection novelisation.)

I agree that Empemperor in this story and the Dalek Prime are the same individual though. While Davros's Daleks kill Empemperor, you previously pointed out that the Prime uses a decoy in War, which also explains that he's been playing a chess game of his own. On the same note, I do think it's possible that Nemperor and Conquemperor are also the Prime - Nemperor evidently having escaped the Death Wheel. And I'm totally on board with the idea that the casings change, don't worry about that.

I guess I'm just trying to wrap my head around the Prime's chronology in this era, since Emperor! doesn't really read as a proper sequel to Nemesis for anyone except Daak. If it helps, here's a rough layout of what the Dalek timeline, and the shape of Prime's post-Great War reign, seems to look like this:


 * Second Dalek War: Frontier, Planet, Abslom Daak, Star Tigers, Nemesis, Prisoner
 * Third Dalek War: Death
 * Dalek-Movellan War: Destiny
 * Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War: Resurrection, Revelation, Emperor!, Remembrance, War