Trantor

Location from Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Ecumenopolis — the entire planet is one city. Forty billion people, twenty-five million square miles of metal. Capital of the Galactic Empire for twelve thousand years, now slowly decaying from the edges inward.

Also known as: the Imperial Planet, the Capital, the World-City, Star's End

What They Know

• Trantor imports all food from twenty agricultural worlds — severing supply lines means starvation within weeks
• The planet's metal skin covers every square meter of surface, but beneath it the original geology is completely unknown
• The Sack of Trantor stripped the metal covering from vast sections, exposing soil that hadn't seen sunlight in millennia
• The Imperial Library survived the Sack and became the hiding place of the Second Foundation
• Trantor's population dropped from forty billion to under one hundred million after the Empire's collapse
• Seldon chose 'Star's End' as the Second Foundation's location — everyone assumed the galaxy's edge, but he meant the other end: Trantor itself
• Each sector operates semi-autonomously with its own culture, dialect, and power structure
• The heat sinks that vent the planet's thermal energy are among the few surface features visible from space

Connections

• capital_of — the_galaxy
• contains — imperial_palace
• contains — streeling_university
• contains — second_foundation_hq
• contains — mycogen
• contains — dahl
• contains — wye

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