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The Galactic Empire Was Falling.
It was a colossal Empire,
stretching across millions of worlds from arm-end to arm-end of the mighty
multi-spiral that was the Milky Way. Its fall was colossal, too―and a long one,
for it had a long way to go. adult friend finder
It had been falling for centuries before
one man became really aware of that fall. That man was Hari Seldon, the man who
represented the one spark of creative effort left among the gathering decay. He
developed and brought to its highest pitch the science of psychohistory. adult friend finder
Psychohistory dealt not with man, but
with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could
forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser
science could bring to the forecast of a rebound of a billiard ball. The
reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of
a billion is something else again. adult friend finder
Hari Seldon plotted the social and
economic trends of the time, sighted along the curves and foresaw the
continuing and accelerating fall of civilization and the gap of thirty thousand
years that must elapse before a struggling new Empire could emerge from the
ruins. adult friend finder
It was too late to stop that fall, but
not too late to narrow the gap of barbarism. Seldon established two Foundations
at “opposite ends of the Galaxy” and their location was so designed that in one
short millennium events would knit and mesh so as to force out of them a
stronger, more permanent, more benevolent
Foundation (Gnome Press, 1951) has told
the story of one of those Foundations during the first two centuries of life. adult friend finder
It began as a settlement of physical
scientists on Terminus, a planet at the extreme end of one of the spiral arms
of the Galaxy. Separated from the turmoil of the Empire, they worked as
compilers of a universal compendium of knowledge, the Encyclopedia Galactica,
unaware of the deeper role planned for them by the already-dead Seldon, adult friend finder
As the Empire rotted, the outer regions
fell into the hands of independent “kings.” The Foundation was threatened by
them. However, by playing one petty ruler against another, under the leadership
of their first mayor, Salvor Hardin, they maintained a precarious independence. adult friend finder As sole possessors, of nuclear power among worlds which were losing
their sciences and falling back on coal and oil, they even established an
ascendancy. The Foundation became the “religious” center of the neighboring
kingdoms.
Slowly, the Foundation developed a
trading economy as the Encyclopedia receded into the background. Their Traders,
dealing in nuclear gadgets which not even the Empire in its heyday could have
duplicated for compactness, penetrated hundreds of light-years through the
Periphery. adult friend finder
Under Hober Mallow, the first of the
Foundation's Merchant Princes, they developed the techniques of economic
warfare to the point of defeating the
At the end of two hundred years, the
Foundation was the most powerful state in the Galaxy, except for the remains of
the Empire, which, concentrated in the inner third of the Milky Way, still controlled
three quarters of the population and wealth of the Universe. adult friend finder
It seemed inevitable that the next danger the Foundation would have to face was the final lash of the dying Empire.
The way must he cleared for the battle
of Foundation and Empire. adult friend finder