|
| |
Faber
One of Han Fastolfe's house robots on Aurora. (3-4-15)
Fallom
Child of Sarton Bander, fourteen years old when taken from Solaria by Bliss
during Golan Trevize's expedition in search of Earth after she had first been
forced to kill its parent and then discovered that it would have been put to
death by the other Solarians as being too immature to inherit Bander's estate.
When the expedition discovered Daneel Olivaw on Earth's moon, Fallom remained
with Daneel so that their brains could be merged to enable Daneel to live long
enough to ensure the successful evolution of Galaxia. (14-IV-12-54 etc.)
Fanya
Han Fastolfe's wife immediately prior to Elijah Baley's visit to Aurora.
(3-4-16,6-24)
Fara, Jord
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Encyclopedia Committee at the time of
Salvor Hardin's coup. (10-II-3)
Far Star
Hober Mallow's trading ship. (10-V-9)
Far Star
Highly advanced, experimental Foundation pocket-cruiser with gravitic drive and
a computer capable of responding to human thought, used by Golan Trevize and
Janov Pelorat on their quest for the lost planet Earth. See Bright Star.
(13-3-13 etc.; 14)
Faroul
Lord Ennius' predecessor as Procurator of Earth. (7-6)
Farrill, Biron
Son of the Rancher of Widemos, the leading nobleman of Nephelos. A student at
the University of Earth while working with his father for the Nebular Kingdoms'
revolutionary movement. (6)
Fastolfe, Han
Aurora's foremost theoretical roboticist, a member of Aurora's World
Legislature, and the leading light of the Auroran Humanists, believing that
Earth's people could only survive by colonizing the galaxy.
From the Spacer enclave of Spacetown, he and Roj Nemennuh Sarton had initially
tried to encourage a wave of emigration from Earth through destabilizing Earth's
fragile city-dominated economy by encouraging the use of robots on Earth and
showing that robots could be used to help colonize other worlds, but this
backfired when the hostility of Earth's people was turned against robots and the
Spacers themselves. When this hostility led to the murder of Sarton, Fastolfe's
contact with Elijah Baley in the subsequent investigation did much to convince
Baley of the need to reverse Earth's conservative attitudes towards emigration.
Fastolfe's early speculation on what he saw as a future science of psychohistory
which would provide a "Laws of Humanics" was encouraged by his long-time robot
companion Giskard Reventlov, and although he had almost certainly realised
unconsciously the nature of the mental powers which Giskard had acquired,
Giskard used the same powers to prevent the realisation becoming conscious.
After Elijah Baley's investigation of the murder of Jander Panell led to the
discrediting of Kelden Amadiro, Fastolfe's most powerful political opponent, he
became Chairman of Aurora in all but name, and for the rest of his life worked
to ensure that Humanist policies prevailed, and that the new waves of
colonization from Earth met with no hindrance from the Spacers. (1-7,8,9,17;
2-2; 3-1-4 etc.; 4-I-2-5,3-7a,8)
Fastolfe, Lumen
Eldest of Han Fastolfe's two daughters, involved in Globalist politics. (3-7-28)
Fastolfe, Vasilia
See Aliena, Vasilia.
Fearless
Kalganian ship used in the war with the Foundation. (12-II-16)
Fife
One of the five continents of Sark. The Squire of Fife was the most powerful of
Sark's ruling elite, controlling one-third of Florina's kyrt production through
his extensive landholdings on Florina. His attempt to use the psychic-probed Rik
to discredit Trantor in the face of Trantor's Imperial ambitions failed when it
was discovered that Rik's deduction that Florina's sun was shortly to turn nova
was correct. (5-9)
Filia
Fictional autarchy 30,000 parsecs from Terminus, invented to enable the Mule to
exercise his emotional control on the captured Han Pritcher. (11-II-21)
Finangelos
Pret-math student of Streeling University. (9-I-2)
First Citizen of the Union
Title adopted by the Mule after his conquest of the Foundation. (12-I-1)
First Speaker
See Foundation, Second.
Flavella
Golan Trevize's mistress immediately before his exile from Terminus. (13-I-4)
Flexner
Suburb of Terminus city in which Golan Trevize lived. (13-I-4)
Flight, Day of
Day on which Sayshell commemmorated the first arrival of refugees from Earth.
(13-13-52)
Flora
Wife of Lord Ennius. (7-6)
Florina
Planet of unspecified location. The only planet on which kyrt grew, Florina's
native population of 500 million was governed by the 10,000 Squires from the
neighbouring planet of Sark who lived in the upper part of a segregated City,
with the assistance of some 20,000 mercenaries employed in the Florinian Patrol.
Native Florinians were used on Florina as labourers in the kyrt industry, with
the most intelligent taken to Sark and used to staff the Sarkite Civil Service,
and the most intelligent of those sent back to Florina to act as Townmen, or
native governers. Florina was evacuated after its sun was discovered to be in a
pre-nova stage. (5)
Forbidden Worlds
Term used on Comporellon to refer to the fifty Outer Worlds. (14-II-7-26)
Forell, Sennett
Wealthiest and most powerful of the Foundation's merchant princes at the time of
Bel Riose's expedition, and instigator of the move to send Lathan Devers to spy
on Riose. (11-I-2)
Foundation (First)
By the time the Encyclopedia Galactica had broken the illusion of its own
existence and realised that it was the Foundation, Hari Seldon had been dead for
fifty years, and the collapse of the Empire, which he had foreseen, meant that
it had to look after its own interests. Almost simultaneously Salvor Hardin
siezed administrative power from the Encyclopedia Committee who had been running
Terminus, and military forces from Anacreon landed on the planet, Anacreon
having realised that the Empire had neither the will nor the resources to look
after its interests in the Periphery.
With the Foundation alone in the Periphery in maintaining a usable nuclear
technology, it could afford to play its neighbours one against another, while
supplying them with nuclear equipment under the management of a
Foundation-controlled "priesthood." When Anacreon again turned aggressor its
people had been taught to accept the Foundation as being destined, through Hari
Seldon's guidance, to prevail against all comers, and when Anacreon's nuclear
technology was shown to be under the control of the Foundation, the attack
collapsed and Terminus was left unmolested.
Having seen off the immediate danger from the shards of the Empire, the
Foundation expanded its influence through trade, effectively bartering its
advanced technology for the raw materials which Terminus lacked, and when the
Korellian Republic, which had never come under the influence of the Foundation's
priesthood, in turn attacked, the Foundation's trading position was so strong
that Korell's internal economy collapsed.
By the time that the more observant elements in the Empire had recognised the
threat posed by an expansionist Foundation while the Empire itself was in
retreat, the Imperium was more concerned with its own survival than with
goings-on in the distant Periphery, and the Foundation was again left to its own
destiny, but a serious imbalance in power had grown within the Foundation
itself. Terminus was effectively being run by wealthy corporate interests, with
smaller traders banished to the Foundation's economic margins, and these
outcasts were planning a rebellion when the Mule and his forces appeared and
conquered all in his path, including the hitherto invincible Foundation.
Through the intervention of the Second Foundation, the Mule was kept from
causing irreparable damage to the Seldon Plan, but after the Mule's death the
Foundation was not only shell-shocked but becoming more aware of the existence
and nature of the Second Foundation. The Second Foundation was forced to
intervene again, and having seen off an attack from Kalgan and destroyed - or so
it thought - the Second Foundation, the Foundation continued its expansion until
by the mayoralty of Harla Branno a loose Foundation Federation covered a third
of the galaxy. (10; 11; 12; 13)
Foundation, Second
Covert counterpart to the overt Foundation of physical scientists formulated by
Hari Seldon and Yugo Amaryl to form the nucleus of a Second Galactic Empire. The
Second Foundation was known to the First only through an obtuse allusion from
Seldon's appearance in the Time Vault.
Its essential function, as the hidden guardian of the Seldon Plan, was to
continue to develop it and ensure that the First Foundation adhered to it,
speeding the development of the Second Empire. This was made possible through
the use of people with mental powers who were able, where necessary, to
influence the minds of key personnel in the Foundation and elsewhere. This
aspect of the Second Foundation's work may well have been inspired as a result
of Seldon's meetings with Daneel Olivaw when Daneel was Chief of Staff and First
Minister to Cleon I, and were supposedly, like Daneel's mental touches, governed
by the principle of minimalism.
The Second Foundation, whose founder members can be said to have been Wanda
Seldon, Stettin Palver and Bor Alurin, was set up in the Galactic Library on
Trantor, where it became the only part of Trantor to survive the destruction of
the Great Sack which led to the rest of the planet reverting to subsistence
agriculture, and where it was, as far as possible, out of sight and out of mind
of the Foundation of Terminus.
It was ruled by an Executive Council, known as the Table, of twelve Speakers,
each of whom was expected to have made an original contribution to the Seldon
Plan, chaired by the First Speaker. Custom maintained that the only prerogative
of the First Speaker was to speak first at meetings of the Table, though in
practice the post conferred rather more power.
After instigating the rebellion on Anacreon which led to its secession from
Imperial rule, the Second Foundation for a long time had no cause to intervene
directly in the affairs of the galaxy, although their activities were in any
case severely limited by the need to remain hidden. During the Great Sack the
Second Foundationers successfully defended the Imperial Library and its grounds
against the pillagers, but could not prevent the rest of Trantor being laid
waste without fatally drawing attention to themselves.
With the rise to power of the Mule, it became clear not only that the First
Foundation was unable to combat the Mule's mental powers but that, if he was
left unchecked, the Seldon Plan would be totally disrupted, leaving the galaxy
in chaos. The Second Foundation prevented further expansion of his Union of
Worlds firstly by interfering with some of his key personnel, then, when he
noticed what they had been doing, trapping and "conditioning" him themselves.
When the Mule died a few years later, the First Foundation to some extent
inherited his Union of Worlds, but a number of its citizens had realised that
the Second Foundation actually existed, and had deduced its nature. The Second
Foundation was forced to sacrifice a number of its people in order to make it
seem that it had been destroyed, so that the First Foundation would continue to
expand economically and politically while thinking that they were masters of
their own destiny.
In response to the extensive disruption caused to the Seldon Plan by the Mule,
the Second Foundation expanded its operations by recruiting Observers, who were
given enough training in mentalics to be useful information-gathers while
minimising the risk of drawing attention to themselves, and it was an Observer
who alerted the Second Foundation to the exile of Golan Trevize from Terminus
and his subsequent journey to Gaia. Although by this time the Second Foundation
numbered 40,000, they were prone to internal disputes and power struggles
between individuals which belied their supposed role as an enlightened ruling
class, and were no match for the mental powers and subtle manipulation of Gaia.
After Trevize had chosen Gaia's preferred path for the future of the galaxy over
yhose of the two Foundations, the Second Foundation continued in the belief that
they were the effective rulers of a Foundation-based Second Empire when in fact
it had become a lesser player in the evolution of a superconscious Galaxia.
(11-II-25; 12-I-1,2,3,4,6,II-8,10,22; 13-2,5,7,8,10,18,19,20)
Foundation Federation
After the Kalganian War the Foundation was able to expand to become a loose
Foundation Federation, by the time of Harla Branno's mayoralty covering a third
of the Galaxy. (13-2-5)
Frankenn I
First Galactic Emperor. (7-11)
Freeze-out, mental
See Mental freeze-out.
Fulham, Yate
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Encyclopedia Committee at the time of
Salvor Hardin's coup. (10-II-3)
|
