Isaac Asimovs Foundation Explained In FIVE Minutes ( Some Spoilers)

Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series was the firstever science fiction series to contain a fullfledged galactic empire. The entire series involves the centurieslong plan of a man known as Hari Seldon, to restore the human galactic empire after a great crash that led to a dark age. Hari Seldon was able to predict the fall of the first galactic empire by use of a form of mathematics known as psychohistory, which was able to predict human behavior overtime at mass. Essentially the empire fell due to the capital planet, Trantor s inability to adequately handle the bureaucratic and administrative demands of such a large empire, containing 25 Million worlds. Hari Seldons Solution would ultimately prove to be extremely complicated and multifaceted, but it is presented initially as the creation of the Foundation. The Foundation would be founded on the distant world of Terminus and would have an encyclopedist whose job was to record all human knowledge in the universe inside the Encyclopedia Galactica. Thousands of