![]() ![]() Seldon predicts that Trantor will be destroyed within 300 years as the climax to the fall of the Galactic Empire, leading to a 30,000 year period of anarchy before a Second Empire is established. They finally arrest Seldon and Gaal Dornick, a young mathematician who has just arrived to join the project.Īt Seldon's trial more details come out. ![]() He has set up a project which is increasingly harassed by Imperial officials from the Commission of Public Safety, the actual rulers of the Empire. The only one who realizes this is Hari Seldon, a mathematician who has created the science of Psychohistory by which it is possible to predict future events by extrapolating from historic trends. Though it has endured for so long and appears outwardly to be strong and stable, the empire has been imperceptibly declining for centuries. Gaal always had wanted to go to Trantor, the capital planet of the 12,000 year old Galactic Empire. The story begins on Synnax, with Gaal Dornick. ![]()
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