Raych Foss is a recurring character in the Apple TV+ series Foundation. Raych is Hari Seldon's aide and confidante, privy to Hari's plans for the Foundation. He is portrayed by Alfred Enoch, first appearing in the episode "The Emperor's Peace."
Biography[]
Early Life[]
As a young child, Raych Foss was raised on Trantor. At the age of six or seven, he was caught by Hari Seldon stealing two Alvarez folios from the rare books section of Streeling University. Raych's mother had died, and his father had been in an accident while working in the heat sinks. The young boy stole to sell items on the black market to pay for medicine to treat a burn on his father's back.[3]
Foundation[]
Raych went on to work for Hari Seldon who had developed a new science known as Psychohistory, a methodology that could predict the large scale movements of societies. Raych is the only person that Hari trusted to know about his plan for the Foundation to be intentionally exiled to the planet Terminus. He meets Gaal Dornick when she arrives on Trantor via the Star Bridge, and escorts her to the Imperial Library to meet with Hari. After the meeting, and Gaal learning that she is likely to be arrested in the morning, Raych takes her to the Seer Church on Trantor before escorting her to the hotel. Raych and Gaal begin to forge a connection as Hari's plan unfolds and the Empire exiles the project to the edges of the galaxy following the terrorist bombing of the Star Bridge.[4]
Raych joins the crew of the Foundation's slow ship Deliverance en route to Terminus, along with Hari, Gaal, and over seventeen hundred other volunteer colonists. During the journey, Raych and Gaal developed an attraction that blossomed into a relationship. They kept it a secret from Hari on Raych's insistence since he believed that Hari would not approve since relationships were a distraction from the work.[3]
Several months into the voyage, Hari orders Raych to kill him, telling him that it is the only way that Gaal can be saved. At Hari's insistence, Raych reluctantly follows his orders, though Gaal manages to witness Raych in the act of killing Hari.[5] Raych ushers a distraught Gaal to a cryopod which he fills with fluid and ejects her from the ship in stasis.[3] Raych is found and arrested by the others on the ship, and it is believed that he and Gaal murdered Hari. He is executed for his supposed crime, and looks into the camera in order to give a secret message to Gaal, hoping that she would access the archive footage of the execution after she awakened in the future.[1]
Legacy[]
Over thirty years after his death, his biological daughter, Salvor Hardin, would have visions of him running across the plains of Terminus. Not knowing the boy's identity, and believing it was a colonist out after curfew and beyond the perimeter fence, she would give chase. This led her to discover that the Anacreons had secretly landed on the planet.[6] Salvor would also have a vision of Raych holding a knife in the Imperial Library.[7]
The mentalic Tellem Bond used Raych's image to talk to Hari Seldon aboard the Beggar's Lament. She wanted to trigger memories of his death and resurrection to learn what had happened to him.[8]
Appearances[]
- Season One
- "The Emperor's Peace" (First appearance)
- "Preparing to Live"
- "The Mathematician's Ghost" (vision)
- "Barbarians at the Gate" (vision)
- "Upon Awakening"
- "Death and the Maiden"
- Season Two
- "In Seldon's Shadow" (Mentioned only)
- "The Sighted and the Seen" (as a mental projection)
- "Creation Myths"