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not capable of conversing comfortably. Arguably, the most significant event of Cleon's rule occurred in 12,020 GE, when the young mathematician Hari Seldon came to Trantor and revealed that Psychohistory was a theoretical possibility. Cleon I's reign represented a curious interval of quiet between troubled times, due to the skills of R. Daneel Olivaw, under the guise of his Chief of Staff, Eto Demerzel. Demerzel became aware that Seldon could possibly develop a mathematical method for predicting future history, and he (indirectly) informed the Emperor, who took an immediate interest in the matter. While Cleon was content to use Seldon as a source of self-fulfilling prophecies—a tool to prevent unrest—Demerzel had come to believe that the Empire itself was dying, and that only an honest investigation could prevent its fall or at least minimize that fall's effects. Therefore, Demerzel took steps to promote Seldon's development of his infant science. After Demerzel's retirement, Cleon appointed Seldon to be his new Chief of Staff, a position now termed First Minister. Seldon exerted himself to the fullest, employing pragmatic measures to halt anti-Imperial conspiracies while simultaneously developing psychohistory into a system capable of making solid predictions. Unfortunately, Cleon's personal ineptitude became his downfall. Wishing to thank a gardener, Mandell Gruber, for his part in thwarting an assassination attempt on Dr. Seldon, he promoted Gruber to Chief Gardener over the Imperial Palace grounds. Gruber, not wishing to abandon his lifestyle, overcame his timidity and shot the Emperor.

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painful and undiagnosed ailment. In 195 FE, he declared war against the First Foundation in Terminus, of which his Privy Secretary Ammel Brodrig informed him after learning about Riose's actions. Brodrig informed his Emperor that Riose was in the Lemul Cluster, that he was one of the "popular generals", and that his soldiers were entirely under his command. Cleon later recalled Riose and Brodig, ending the Fourth Seldon Crisis. He died in 203 FE but was remembered until at least 498 FE.

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Dagobert IX was old and detached from reality, still reminiscing about imperial times long gone. Nevertheless, after he gave permission to Ebling Mis to use the Great Library of Trantor, he made a dignified impression as befits a Galactic emperor. His son, the crown prince Dagobert, tried to conspire under the influence of the corrupt governor Jord Commason. The crown prince was killed by the Mule with the help of a Visi-sonor.

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conditions. Naturally, most Dahlites hated the Empire and its soldiers (colloquially labelled 'sunbadgers'). Dahlites were black-haired, and fairly short; males wore large, thick mustaches, considered a sign of virility, and all carried knives (considered to be primitive weapons). Rather than using 'Mr.', 'Mrs.', or 'Dr.', as forms of address, Dahlites always used 'Master' and 'Mistress' (never 'Doctor'). Known Dahlites:

256: 1596:, the food situation on Trantor changed precisely because its subterranean farms were shut down in the wake of the abortive tik-tok rebellion. That book directly establishes that it was this decision that made Trantor dependent on the produce of twenty agricultural worlds—ironically, the same worlds over which Neotrantor would hold its last, feeble sway. 1534:—At the time Hari Seldon first arrived on Trantor, fashions in Streeling were not quite so boldly colorful as in the Imperial Sector. It was the site of Streeling University, a prestigious university noted for being almost completely out of the hands of the Empire. It later gained fame for housing Hari Seldon and his "Seldon Psychohistory Project". 1689:, whose galactic empire, and the scholar-empire that succeeds it, are clearly based upon Asimov's Galactic Empire and the Foundations, even though Kingsbury was not granted permission to set his work directly in Asimov's universe. Seed calls this work "perhaps the most remarkable homage that any SF writer has received from another SF writer". 1486:(meaning 'maker' or 'producer'), which matches the description of Mycogen as specialized in breeding and exporting yeast, or "microfood", to other portions of Trantor. It kept the best for itself; the food eaten by Seldon in Mycogen was the best he had ever had on Trantor. Mycogenians were descendants of the ancient Spacer world 1726:) portray the rise and fall of the galaxy as an inevitable cycle, of which (unlike in other dystopian SF stories of the 1940s and 1950s) the use of machine technology is merely a symptom not the actual cause, and culminate, as in Wollheim's eighth stage, with the end of the universe and the birth of a new one. 1226:, not all these farmers were what they seemed, with the now-rustic Trantor serving as the centre of the Second Foundation. From Trantor, the Second Foundationers secretly guided the development of the Galaxy (roughly parallel to the city of Rome becoming, after the fall of its empire, the headquarters of the 1692:

Asimov's Galactic Empire, its decline, fall, and rebirth, in particular, is characterized by Perelman as a simple repetition of the history of Western Civilization from the fall of the Roman Empire to the 20th century, borrowing freely from Toynbee, and a validation of postwar American culture of the

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Emperor who came to the throne after the fall of the Military Junta in 12,058 GE. Third cousin, on his mother's side, to Cleon I. Liked to be called the "Citizen Emperor" and befriended Hari Seldon although failed to use his meagre resources to assist the Psychohistory Project. A weak emperor with no

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mentions algae growing on Trantor, which is called a totally inadequate source of food, so it is possible some of the later Emperors attempted to rectify the situation with limited success. Trantor is, of course, again able to produce its own food after the sack by Gilmer, with the increasing amount

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to use in their farms. Eventually the farmers grew to become the sole recognised inhabitants of the planet, and the era of Trantor as the central world of the galaxy came to a close. It began to develop a dialect very different from Galactic Standard Speech, and the people unofficially renamed their

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The last Emperor of the Entun dynasty, born 11,988 GE, died 12,038. He was Emperor when Hari Seldon first arrived on Trantor. He succeeded to the Imperial throne in 12,010 GE at the age of twenty-two following the death of his father. Cleon was an amiable man, eager to treat others as his equals yet

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Near Trantor were twenty agricultural worlds which supplied food which the world-city could not grow for itself, and the "Summer Planets", where the Emperor went for vacation. Around 260 FE, a rebel leader named Gilmer attempted a coup, in the process sacking Trantor and forcing the Imperial family

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by Mycogenians. By tradition they usually wear a cloak called a 'kirtle'; men always wear a white kirtle, women a gray one. Mycogenian names are organised by 'cohort', and individuals are numbered as part of a series. Known Mycogenians: Mycelium 72, Raindrop 43, Raindrop 45, Sunmaster 14, Skystrip

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in the tens of thousands, fleets greater than any navy ever constructed by the Empire. "Its dependence upon the outer worlds for food and, indeed, for all necessities of life, made Trantor increasingly vulnerable to conquest by siege. In the last millennium of the Empire, the monotonously numerous

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mentions a figure ten times that of administrators alone), a population density of 232 people/km (600 people/sq mi), similar to the current population density of Germany or Connecticut. Its population was devoted almost entirely to either administration of the Empire or to maintenance of the

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in the 1950s. Science fiction writers needed only hint at this cosmogony in their stories for experienced SF readers to slot into their perception of future history and envisage the background to the tale, without the writers needing to expend time and space explicitly explaining it. These stages

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Commonly called 'The Great'. The last strong Emperor of the First Empire, ruling from 155 to 203 FE, he is important for the political and artistic renaissance that took place during his long reign. The great-grandson of a pirate ruler, he had three sons. During his later years he suffered from a

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differentiates the desert Anarres from the lush twin Urras … Nor are we given details of battles, lingering accounts of love, different customs of civilisations. There are no animals, only man. … Thought-processes and conversations largely fill the trilogy, and nearly all these are confined to

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states further on Trantor: "As the centre of the Imperial Government for unbroken hundreds of generations and located, as it was, toward the central regions of the Galaxy among the most densely populated and industrially advanced worlds of the system, it could scarcely help being the densest and

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One of the last emperors of the Galactic Empire (it is unlikely he was the last, since that would have required him to live to the age of approximately 120). He fled the Great Sack of Trantor along with his family. When visited upon by Ebling Mis, Toran and Bayta Darell, and the Mule in 295 FE,

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chronology established in the late 1990s, it comes into existence approximately 10,000 CE, year one of the Galactic Era. (The establishment of the Empire was originally 34,500 CE, according to Asimov's unofficial unpublished early 1950s chronology.) The Galactic Empire was made possible by the

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takes place, Trantor controls about half of the worlds in the Galaxy, while the other half is divided into innumerable independent worlds and miniature empires – which naturally makes a Trantorian Ambassador a person of great consequence on any of the still-independent worlds. Later on,

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from Trantor's sun, both from rooftop solar arrays and from solar energy satellites orbiting Trantor that beamed microwave energy to the surface); 'heatsinkers' were generally looked down upon by other Dahlites, though they were better paid than anyone in Dahl due to their difficult working

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Its surface of 194,000,000 km (75,000,000 sq mi, approx. 40% of Earth's surface area), implying a radius of around 4000 km (somewhere in between the Earth and Mars), was, with the exception of the Imperial Palace, entirely enclosed in artificial domes. It consisted of an enormous

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conquest of the entire galaxy made the Galactic Empire, with Trantor as its capital planet, a reality; the planet no longer sending out ambassadors, but only royal governors to subject worlds. This situation had already existed for hundreds of years at the time of

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trilogy, another parallel to the Roman Empire that presents the negative view of the empire that became widely prevalent in late 20th and early 21st century popular culture as a result of the negative view of the American Empire resulting from the

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Emperor who constructed a huge island on Alpha, designated "New Earth", after effort to help Earth recover was abandoned, and arranged for the last inhabitants of Earth to be transported there in 900 GE. The colony survived until at least 498 FE.

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Trantor represents several different aspects of civilization: it is both the center of power in the galaxy and its administrative headquarters. It is also an illustration of what could eventually happen to any urbanized planet. Asimov used the

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Hari Seldon found a long-inactive robot, which was revered by the Mycogenians. The 'high priest' was the leader of the council of elders, the government of Mycogen. During an adolescent rite of passage, all Mycogenians were completely

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series, one of the human colony planets is named Trantor by Howard, in an explicitly stated homage to the Foundation series (though the planet is initially misspelled by an official who did not recognise the reference).

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In the Asimov canon, where events of this time are depicted mainly from a Foundation perspective, the Fall of Trantor is mentioned only as a piece of faraway news and in various later short references. However,

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In the original Foundation Trilogy, there is no indication of Trantor being divided among wildly diverse cultures; likewise, the surface is described as covered with towers rather than domes. Its depiction in

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Father of Cleon I. His Chief of Staff was Eto Demerzel (R. Daneel Olivaw). Fortunate enough to escape the roughly one-in-two chances of assassination faced by the last century of Galactic Emperors.

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is not given a personality, he is merely a powerful anomaly … Nor do we hear much of landscapes, apart from Trantor and one sea-scape … we do not know how one planet differs from another, as, say,

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Stannell II's successor. He took back the order after the assassination, which ended in revolt, but he couldn't stop the unrest which had spread through the Empire, the seeds of its fall.

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One of the prominent features of Trantor was the Library of Trantor (variously referred to as the Imperial Library, the University of Trantor Library, and the Galactic Library), in which

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One of the last Emperors of the Galactic Empire. Fled Trantor to Delicass, renamed Neotrantor, which was about three parsecs away, during the Great Sack by the rebel Gilmer in 255 FE.

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Interregnum between 12,038 and 12,058 GE. The chaotic upset which followed Cleon's assassination saw the rise of a Military Junta and Hari Seldon's retirement from overt politics.

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As of 827 G.E. (Galactic Era, the number of years after its founding), the Galactic Empire comprises millions of inhabited worlds with 500 quadrillion residents. According to the

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actual power; controlled by the parliament. It's been said that he was crowned against his will and agreed because he was the only one that could inherit the crown from Cleon.

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farms produced basic nutrients, which were then processed with artificial flavors into palatable food. The subterranean farms, however, depended entirely on care provided by

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attempted to fill in the details in his "Trantor Falls", focusing on the efforts by the Second Foundation to survive during the sacking of Trantor (published in the 1989

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Boy-Emperor who ordered that Emperor's insignia be raised in Earth's Council Chamber at Washenn. He was insane and was removed by assassination after two years of reign.

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Emperor who kept order in a prosperous Empire with a firm but non-tyrannical hand. He was also known for failing to control the news function of the Imperial Library.

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Other writers to have been influenced by the Roman Empire include, of course, those who have written novels set in Asimov's universe of the Galactic Empire, such as

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Trantor was divided in over 800 administrative sectors, averaging 50,000,000 people each, in 240,000 km (93,000 sq mi), about the size of

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series of adventure games, Trantor is home planet of this universe's alien species. However, no connection besides the name are made to the original.

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revolts made Emperor after Emperor conscious of this, and Imperial policy became little more than the protection of Trantor's delicate jugular vein" (

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index the entirety of human knowledge by walking up to a different computer terminal every day and resuming where the previous librarian left off.

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Colin Manlove characterizes Asimov's description of the Galactic Empire, its people, its culture, its history, and its planets, laid out in the

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Edward James (1999). "Per ardua ad astra: Authorial Choice and the Narrative of Interstellar Travel". In Jaś Elsner; Joan-Pau Rubiés (eds.).

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Emperor responsible for the laws known as "Law Codes of Aburamis" which included forbidding the denigration of public officers of the Empire

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Ruler of the Normannic Sector. Last good ruler of the Provinces, under whom Siwenna almost achieved its ancient prosperity. Died in 104 FE.

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in 1967, reflecting the positive view of the Roman Empire that then prevailed in the US, as it was considered the prototype of the rising

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they considered to be 'history'. The scripture of the Mycogenians mentions Aurora, robots, and other topics, and during the events of

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A dynasty of Emperors who ruled in the early 7,000s GE. Some of their descendants became the Mayors of the Wye sector of Trantor.

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A complete list of Galactic emperors and their dynasties does not exist; however, a number of names and their rule are known:

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As the Empire decreased in size and power, the stagnation that would ultimately cause the collapse of the Empire increased.

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Although some have been confused by the apparent conflict between Trantorian self-sufficiency in terms of food supply in

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novels as an aesthetic monotony: "persons are usually seen as typical rather than special, even as clichés … the mutant

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by sinking extremely long rods into the inner core of the planet (the three other major sources of electric power were

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satirises Trantor, highlighting the problems of atmosphere, waste disposal and navigating about a world-sized city.

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And George Lucas has never confirmed this himself, And never has he ever publicly cited Trantor as inspiration for

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Asimov posits that two foundations are instituted to restore the empire to its former glory. Through the use of

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trilogy describe its fall, over a period of centuries, and a period of anarchy and decay, a parallel to the

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with Streeling University. North Damiano University operates Jet-downs equipped with sensory electronics.

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and humans could not possibly live there.) The first time Trantor was acknowledged in novel form was in

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in about 12,000 Galactic Era predicts the fall of the empire, and institutes the two foundations.

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as was compatible with human habitability. (In reality at the galactic center is a very massive

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First Emperor of the Galactic Empire, crowned in Year 0 of the Galactic Era, around 11,584 AD.

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works and Wonders Volume 1

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was the last Emperor to hold significant authority. The fall of the empire, modelled on the

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of the planet as dependent upon twenty agricultural worlds for food, there is no conflict.

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core taps) and production of food via underground farming and yeasts, as described in

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Emperor who developed the use of the Previous Inclosure strategy in the 10,000s GE.

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of the first Galactic Empire. Trantor was first mentioned in Asimov's short story "

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of the Galactic Empire is called the "Imperial Navy". The empire's capital, named

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depicts an earlier period of Imperial history, and as subsequently explained in

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of one of the eight stages of a "consensus cosmogony". This is also called the

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1940s and 1950s, with the Second Galactic Empire being "definitely suburban".

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Other writers to explore the cycles of civilisations in their works include

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of usable land as the metal on the surface was removed and sold.

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Other works to have been influenced by Asimov's Empire include

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A dynasty of Emperors who ruled around the 11,500s GE.

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Foundation; Foundation and Empire; Second Foundation

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In later stories he acknowledged the growth in 2972: 2561: 1145:, the next chronological book on this timeline. 2026:series, having been recruited to work there by 1059:series first appeared in print (in the form of 880:, as explored by Asimov and later other authors 2414: 2039: 1938: 1889: 1851: 1482:(meaning 'yeast' or other types of fungi) and 2698: 2668: 1995: 1105:series, so Trantor is in some sense based on 849:, or other planets declare independence from 414:, is the subject of many of Asimov's novels. 2610: 2389: 2064: 1742:finding things out and with gaining power." 1478:, their name is formed from the Greek stems 1161:) human inhabitants at its height (although 2234:, edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Tor, 1989. 2044:. Cambridge University Press. p. 151. 1975:. 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