Terminus

Location from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Small planet at the galaxy's edge — Foundation's homeworld. Originally a backwater assigned for encyclopedia compilation, it became the seed of a new galactic civilization exactly as Hari Seldon planned.

Also known as: Foundation, the Foundation world, the Edge

What They Know

• Terminus was deliberately chosen for its isolation at the galaxy's periphery — far from Imperial oversight
• The planet has no significant natural resources, which forced the Foundation to develop technological superiority
• Nuclear technology gave early Terminus a decisive military advantage over neighboring kingdoms that had regressed to coal and oil
• The Seldon Vault activates at predetermined crisis points — Seldon recorded his messages centuries in advance
• Foundation Traders spread from Terminus, creating economic networks that became more powerful than any military
• The Encyclopedia Galactica was always a cover story — the real purpose was to shorten the coming dark age from thirty thousand years to one thousand

Connections

• home_of — encyclopedia_foundation
• contains — seldon_vault
• located_at — the_galaxy
• borders — anacreon

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