The Foundation was an organisation proposed by Hari Seldon to safeguard the knowledge of civilization by creating the Encyclopedia Galactica. As Hari had predicted the fall of the Galactic Empire through the study of Psychohistory, he also advocated for the creation of the Foundation, a group whose goal would be to safeguard humanity's knowledge and sciences to allow society to be rebuilt after the fall.
Following the destruction of the Star Bridge, Hari and his followers were exiled to the planet Terminus, where they established a colony and began working on preserving humanity's knowledge.
As time goes by, the Foundation with its assembled scientists were able to not only totally preserve the essentials of humanity's knowledge and sciences from loss, and thus prevent galactic regression into ignorant barbarism, but actually advance them to a level that is above the Empire, such as the whisper-ships with its jumpdrive that is capable of executing space jumps without the assistance of Spacers - a technology (or technique) that is not yet achieved by the Empire, potentially attracting itself to become a target of the Empire and other parties within the periphery in the future.
Future
From the books of Issac Asimov. The Foundation is meant to act as or replace the Galactic Empire after humanity's fall. Terminus will become the new capital of the galaxy after humanity's eventual exit from regression and stagnation. The premise of assembling a group of scientists in exile and its mission to preserve humanity's knowledge and sciences were not meant to be the primary objective of Hari Seldon's plan, instead the Foundation is destined to be the galactic hegemon, a successor to the Galactic Empire.
Appearances
- Season One
- "The Emperor's Peace" (First mentioned)
- "Preparing to Live" (First appearance)
- "The Mathematician's Ghost"
- "Barbarians at the Gate"
- "Upon Awakening"
- Season Two