With Hardin’s internal conflict, some kingdoms try to move against him. However, Hardin experience opposition to his rule as some people begin requesting diversity in elections. ‘ The Mayors’ is the next story, and it begins thirty years after the events of ‘The Encyclopedists.’ With the Foundation now a powerful government, it starts to govern its neighbors. Later on, a message from Hari Seldon makes the scientists discover that Hardin was on the right track. Hardin faces resistance from the scientists who had worked with Hari Seldon. However, the neighboring kingdoms bordering Terminus begin to make a move on the planet this forces Salvor Hardin, the mayor of Terminus, to use a political strategy for the benefit of Terminus. Now on Terminus, the encyclopedists start gathering knowledge crucial for saving humanity. The second part of the novel is called ‘The Encyclopedists.’ The story begins fifty years after Hari Seldon and his followers leave for an isolated planet called Terminus. However, after convincing the authorities that his work is accurate, he receives the go-ahead to form an organization that would be crucial in stopping the calamity.

With the authority of Trantor realizing the implications of Hari Seldon’s work, they try him on the count of treason. Hari Seldon shows Gaal Dornick his work this sparks fear in Gaal as he discovers that the equations predict a tragedy that would befall humanity. The first part of the novel is called ‘The Psychohistorians’, which is a part of the many unique vocabularies created by Isaac Asimov. The story begins with a man, Gaal Dornick, meeting Hari Seldon, a mathematician and the founder of psychohistory. However, with the invention of a single field of thought, a terrible prediction gets made by the psychologist and mathematician Hari Seldon this begins a series of events that put the human race in turmoil. The Galactic Empire expands across the galaxy as many planetary systems materialize into existence. ‘Foundation’ is a novel set in the future when humanity has advanced to become the Galactic Empire.

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