The Mission to Trantor
A young mathematician arrives at the capital just as the Empire turns on Seldon.
In "The Psychohistorians", the first part of Isaac Asimov's Foundation, the story is told through Gaal Dornick of Synnax, a young apprentice to Hari Seldon who sees Trantor, the Empire's governing world, for the first time. It is the year 12,067 of the Galactic Era.
Quick Facts
- Part of
- Foundation, "The Psychohistorians"
- Year
- 12,067 G.E.
Lore & Background
Seldon has developed psychohistory, a science that allows the probabilistic prediction of future events, and through it has found the decline and coming fall of the Galactic Empire. The prediction angers the Empire's rulers, the Commission of Public Safety.
Reader's Guide
The exile is what Seldon wanted: on Terminus his followers set up the Encyclopedia Foundation, the start of the Seldon Plan. In the Apple TV+ series, Gaal arrives on Trantor and is drawn into the conflict between the Cleonic dynasty and Seldon's schools.
Gaal arrives straight into this crisis. Seldon defends his beliefs, and the Commission, not wanting to make him a martyr, offers him exile to Terminus, a remote world.
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