The Galaxy

Location from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

The Milky Way — twenty-five million inhabited worlds, a trillion-year-old civilization in decline, and the stage on which Hari Seldon played the longest game in human history.

Also known as: the Milky Way, the Empire, the Galactic Empire, the galaxy

What They Know

• Twenty-five million inhabited worlds spanning the entire Milky Way galaxy
• The Galactic Empire ruled for twelve thousand years before its decline became irreversible
• Psychohistory predicted thirty thousand years of barbarism after the fall — Seldon's plan aimed to reduce it to one thousand
• The Periphery — the galaxy's outer edge — fell first as Imperial authority retreated toward the center
• The galaxy's sheer population size is what makes psychohistory possible — individual actions become statistical noise at this scale
• Hyperspace travel connects the galaxy, but communication and logistics delays increase as Imperial infrastructure decays

Connections

• contains — trantor
• contains — terminus
• contains — kalgan
• contains — gaia_planet

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