Aurora

Location from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Ancient Spacer world — the first and greatest of the fifty Spacer planets, now ruins by the Foundation era. The bridge between the Robot novels and the galactic future they inadvertently created.

Also known as: the Spacer World, Aurora

What They Know

• Aurora was the first and most powerful of the fifty Spacer worlds, now ruins overgrown with vegetation
• The Spacers lived for centuries with robot servants and died out from stagnation and population decline
• R. Daneel Olivaw was built on Aurora — the robot who would guide humanity's development for twenty thousand years
• Mycogen on Trantor preserves fragmentary memories of Aurora as religious texts
• The Spacer civilization's failure informed the robots' long-term strategy that eventually created the Foundation

Connections

• located_at — the_galaxy

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