Earth
Location from Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Lost, radioactive, forgotten origin of all humanity — the great mystery Trevize seeks across the galaxy, whose location was deliberately erased from every record by robots protecting the Seldon Plan.
Also known as: the Origin World, the Lost Planet, humanity's homeworld
What They Know
- Earth is the origin world of all humanity — deliberately erased from galactic records by R. Daneel Olivaw
- The planet is radioactive, possibly rendered so deliberately to force humanity's outward expansion
- R. Daneel Olivaw maintained a base in Earth's underground caverns for twenty thousand years
- Trevize's search for Earth was motivated by his need to understand why he chose Galaxia
- Earth's moon is distinctively large — a physical feature that helps identify the planet from ancient records
- The erasure of Earth from all records was the most thorough information suppression in galactic history
Connections
- home_of — aurora
- home_of — solaria
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