Solaria was a fictional human-inhabited planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Robot series. A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star that is not a star itself. ... Isaac Asimov, photographed by Jay Kay Klein Dr. Isaac Asimov (c. ... Hari Seldons holographic image, pictured on a paperback edition of Foundation, appears at various times in the First Foundations history, to guide it through the social and economic crises that befall it. ... Isaac Asimovs Robot Series is a series of books by Isaac Asimov, both collections of short stories and novels. ...

It was the last of the fifty worlds to be colonised by the Spacers, settled in approximately 3200 A.D. by inhabitants of the neighboring world Nexon originally for summer homes. It was ruled by a Regent after it became independent in roughly 3300 A.D. The Solarians specialised in the construction of robots, which they exported to the other Spacer Worlds. Solarian robots were noted for their variety excellence. They also exported their grain, which was used to make a delicacy known as the pachinka. In Isaac Asimovs Foundation/Empire/Robot series, the Spacers were the first humans to emigrate to space. ... This is a list of minor planets in Isaac Asimovs Foundation, Robot, and Empire series. ... A humanoid robot manufactured by Honda. ...

Ultimately, Solaria became totally dependent on robot labour; roughly 10,000 robots existed for every human. The world was extremely sparsely inhabited, with only 20,000 humans (and 200,000,000 robots) inhabiting 30,000,000 miles² (77,666,430 km²) of fertile land, divided into 1200 huge estates. The population was kept stable through strict birth and immigration controls. 20,000 years later, the population was 1200—one human per estate.

By the time Elijah Baley visited Solaria around 3500 A.D., its inhabitants had evolved an isolationist culture in which its citizens never had to meet save for sexual contact for reproductive purposes. All other contact was accomplished by sophisticated trimensional viewing systems, with many Solarians exhibiting a phobia towards actual contact or even being in the same room as another human. All work was done by robots. Elijah Baley is a fictional character in Isaac Asimovs Robot series. ...

Over the following centuries and millennia, Solaria became even more rigidly isolationist. Around 3800 AD, Solaria cut off all contact with the rest of the Galaxy (although continuing to monitor hyperspatial communications). The human inhabitants vanished, giving the impression that they had died out, although they had in fact withdrawn underground; their estates continued to be worked by millions of robots. It was eventually forgotten entirely as the other Spacers died out, with any stray visitors to the planet being attacked and killed by robots programmed to view non-Solarians as non-human. During this time, the Solarians had extensively modified themselves through genetic engineering to become hermaphrodites. In a more important development, Solarians evolved small transducer lobes, a section of the brain about the size of a hen's egg. They were able to collect the kinetic energy of all nearby substances, and control (or destroy) objects, at a distance, by thought. Using these lobes, Solarians could provide for the energy needs of their entire estates. An iconic image of genetic engineering; this 1986 autoluminograph of a glowing transgenic tobacco plant bearing the luciferase gene of the firefly strikingly demonstrates the power and potential of genetic manipulation. ...

In 499 F.E. (approximately 25,066 AD), Solaria was visited by Golan Trevize, Janov Pelorat and Blissenobiarella, who landed on the estate of Solarian 'Ruler' Sarton Bander. They learned of the sociological developments of Solaria. Bander apparently took pleasure in having intellectual companionship, but to prevent them from providing information to the Galaxy about Solaria, he attempted to kill them, but was himself killed by Bliss. The visitors were able to escape, but not before finding the child Fallom, successor to Bander, who they would bring with them to Earth. The child would stay on the moon to mentally merge with Daneel Olivaw. This occurred in the novel Foundation and Earth. At the end of the novel, it was suggested that the Solarians had modified themselves so much that they no longer counted as human, to the point that their behaviour could no longer be predicted by psychohistory. Another possibile reading of that passage was that they were actually aliens. Golan Trevize is a fictional character, a major figure in two books in Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series: Foundations Edge and Foundation and Earth. ... Janov Pelorat is a character in the Foundation Series of books by Isaac Asimov. ... Blissenobiarella, known informally as Bliss, is a character in Isaac Asimovs Foundation series. ... Foundation and Earth Foundation and Earth (1986) is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation Series and chronologically the last in the series. ... This article is about modern humans. ... For the fictional use of the term psychohistory, see psychohistory (fictional) Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events. ... In popular fiction and conspiracy theories, life forms, especially intelligent life forms, that are of extraterrestrial origin, i. ...

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• Star
  • Planets: 3
• Planet
  • Position: Solaria III
  • Diametre: 15,000 km (9,500 miles), 1.24 that of Earth
  • Known locations: Helionia, on the northern continent.