Terminus is a fictional planet at the edge of the Galaxy in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, capital of the Foundation. Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear, as locations or settings for stories, especially those in the science fiction genre. ... 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. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... 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. ...

Geography

It was the sole planet orbiting its isolated star and had almost no metals in the surface rocks(although, as a habitable planet, it presumably had a nickel-iron core to produce a protective magnetic field). The nearest planet was Anacreon, 8 parsecs (26 light years) away. Being on the fringe of the galaxy, there are almost no stars in the sky. It lay on the edge of the Galaxy that was opposite the planet Siwenna. It was the planet farthest from the Galactic Centre; its name reflects that fact: Latin terminus means 'end of the line'. The Pleiades star cluster A star is a massive body of plasma in outer space that is currently producing or has produced energy through nuclear fusion. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith Look up Metal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. ... A planet from Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series, Anacreon was one of the most important worlds in the galactic periphery prior to the fall of the Galactic Empire. ... The parsec (symbol pc) is a unit of length used in astronomy. ... A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9. ... Spoiler warning: Siwenna is a planet prominent in Foundation and Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov. ... It has been suggested that History of the Latin language be merged into this article or section. ... The word terminus is used in several different contexts including various topics: In transport a terminus is commonly used to describe a bus station/rail station acting as an end destination. ...

It had a very high water/land ratio. The only large island was the one on which Terminus City lay. A total of 10,000 inhabited islands existed on the planet. The climate was mild.

Prior to human occupation, there was some life on Terminus. However, once humans arrived (along with their supporting species), these native life forms were crowded out and became extinct. To conserve habitat for wild species and prevent their extinction or reduction in range is a priority of a great many groups that cannot be easily characterized in terms of any one ideology. ...

Cities

The capital of Terminus Planet is Terminus City. Terminus City is home to a number of places, including:

• City Hall—the primary administrative building of the Foundation, including the Council Chambers and Mayor's Office
• City Hall Park
• Cyclopedia Square
• Flexner—suburb
• The Hardin Building—a public apartment complex
• Mallow Hall—a concert venue
• The Salvor Hardin Museum of Origins—more commonly called the Hardin Museum, a museum of Foundation history, known to house the copies of the original Encyclopedia Galactica
• The Seldon Vault—where messages recorded by Hari Seldon before his death were played to relay important information to the citizens of the Foundation, around the times of the Seldon Crises.
• Terminus Spaceport
• Ultimate Spaceport

Three other cities are known: Agyropol, Newton City, Stanmark (Arkady Darrell's hometown). Hari Seldon is the intellectual hero of Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series. ... A Seldon Crisis is a fictional socio-historical phenomenon in Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series of science fiction novels. ... Arkady Darrell is a fictional character, part of of Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series. ...

History

With the Galactic Empire in fatal decline, Hari Seldon, inventor of the science of psychohistory, predicted a 30,000 year interregnum of barbaric dark ages until the rise of a New Empire. So Seldon created a plan to shorten this interregnum from 30,000 years to 1,000 years. In Isaac Asimovs Robot/Empire/Foundation series of novels, the Galactic Empire is an empire consisting of planets settled by humans across the whole galaxy. ... Psychohistory is the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimovs Foundation universe, which combined history, psychology and mathematical statistics to create a (nearly) exact science of the behavior of very large populations of people, such as the Galactic Empire. ... Petrarch, who conceived the idea of a European Dark Age. From Cycle of Famous Men and Women, Andrea di Bartolo di Bargillac, c. ...

Seldon asked Las Zenow, chief librarian of the Library of Trantor to undertake a search to find a suitable planet, according to Seldon's criteria. Zenow, following a lengthy search, found Terminus, which had been uninhabited through the five centuries after its discovery.

Seldon manipulated the totalitarian Commission of Public Safety that ruled the Empire to exile his project to Terminus. The founding population consisted of 100,000 especially healthy scientists, whose ostensible purpose it was to publish an Encyclopedia Galactica. In actuality, their job would be to preserve science and technology, and reconquer the Galaxy to form the Second Empire. The Encyclopedia Galactica is a fictional or hypothetical encyclopedia of a future galaxy-spanning civilization, containing all the knowledge accumulated by a society with trillions of people and thousands of years of history. ...