Seldon Crisis
Item from Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Predetermined crisis points in the Seldon Plan — moments when the Foundation faces existential threats with only one viable solution, the one Seldon predicted centuries in advance.
Also known as: Seldon Crises, the Crisis, the predicted crisis
What They Know
- Each crisis converges to a single viable solution — the one that advances the Seldon Plan
- The Foundation's leaders don't know the plan; they are constrained by circumstances into choosing the predicted path
- The First Crisis was Anacreon's military threat; the Second was the Four Kingdoms; each forced institutional evolution
- The Mule's conquest broke the crisis pattern — the first unpredicted existential threat
- Seldon's Vault hologram confirms or denies whether a crisis was predicted after it resolves
Connections
- belongs_to — seldon_vault
- used_by — terminus
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