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Sabbat, Gennao
Young mathematician of Aurora. (Mirror Image)
Sacratorium
Building in Mycogen dedicated to Aurora, with grounds constructed in imitation
of Aurora's governmental grounds, and containing video reconstructions of the
Mycogenians' ancestors' presumed idyllic life on Aurora. Visited by Hari Seldon
and Dors Venabili in search of the robot which Seldon had read about in the
Mycogenians' revered Book. (8-11,12)
Samia
Daughter of the Squire of Fife, researching kyrt on Florina when a spate of
murders forced her recall to Sark. (5-8,11,15)
Sammin
Lieutenant General of the Mule's forces during the war with the independent
trading worlds. (11-II-21)
Sammy
Messenger robot of New York police department. Used by Julius Enderby to carry
into Spacetown the blaster used by Enderby to kill Roj Nemennuh Sarton, and
later destroyed by Enderby. (1-1)
Santanni
System of the Periphery near Terminus, 9,000 parsecs from Trantor, with an
evidently well-regarded university. For a while during Stettin's move against
the Foundation it was controlled by Kalgan. (9-IV-14,28,29; 10-II-1,III-1;
12-II-18)
Sarip
Late-Empire Outer World near Santanni. (9-IV-28)
Sark
Planet of unspecified location. Once with Imperial ambitions similar to those of
Trantor, the discovery of the unique kyrt growing on the neighbouring world of
Florina led to Sark establishing a near-feudal economy on Florina, the huge
profits from a galactic monopoly of kyrt products giving Sark a wealth which
rivalled that of Trantor itself, supported by the cheap labour of the Florinians
who worked on Florina in the kyrt industry, and on Sark in the Sarkite Civil
Service. Shortly before the establishment of the Trantor-based Galactic Empire,
Sark's five continents each played host to a Great Squire, who not only between
them controlled Sark, but maintained a cartel of the kyrt market which only
ended with the evacuation of Florina after the discovery that its sun was in a
pre-nova stage. (5)
Sark City
Capital city of Sark. (5-5)
Sarton, Roj Nemennuh
Leading Auroran sociologist, specialising in robotics, and collaborator with Han
Fastolfe in attempts to improve relations between Earth and the Spacers. While
living in Spacetown to study the psychology of Earthpeople, he was killed by
Julius Enderby in mistake for Daneel Olivaw. His death led to the removal of the
Spacers from Earth. (1; 3-4-15)
Savard, Tapper
Native of Anacreon, and designer of the Imperial Palace grounds on Trantor.
(9-II-1)
Sayshell
Union of eighty-six populated planetary systems which had throughout the period
of the Empire enjoyed an uncommon degree of independence, thanks in no small
measure to the influence of the nearby planet of Gaia. After the decline of the
Empire, Sayshell maintained its autonomy and neutrality even through the period
of the Mule's conquests, pursuing an anti-Foundation foreign policy and
discouraging links with the Foundation and its expanding Federation despite
being surrounded by, and economically dependent on, Federation territory.
After Gaia had been given the dominant role in the future development of the
galaxy, Sayshell negotiated a trade agreement with the Foundation Federation,
when Gaia no longer needed the protection afforded by an isolationist Sayshell
while being able to expand its own influence through the new social and economic
links. (13-11,12,13)
Schwartz, Joseph
Retired tailor of twentieth-century Earth, transported to the ninth century of
the Galactic Empire by an unexplained mechanism. Volunteered for an experiment
with Affret Shekt's Synapsifier, he found himself able to read and influence
human minds. He used this ability to forestall and expose the plan of the
Earth's Zealots to launch a biological war on the rest of the Empire. (7)
Scowler
Hamish dialect word used to refer to the Second Foundationers who inhabited the
University Library and its grounds on Trantor. It was probably a corruption of
"scholar." (13-7-23)
Second, Ernett
Humaniform robot designed by Vasilia Aliena at the Robotics Institute of Aurora,
sent to Earth by Kelden Amadiro and Levular Mandamus in the contingent of robots
used to take nuclear intensifiers to Earth's radioactive hotspots. Sent to New
York by Amadiro to kill Giskard Reventlov, he went into mental freeze-out when
Gladia ordered him to reveal the location of his masters. (4-V-17-80,81)
Second Foundation
See Foundation, Second.
Seldon, Bellis
Daughter of Raych Seldon and Manella Dubanqua. She was presumed dead when the
ship carrying her and her mother from Santanni to Anacreon disappeared without
trace. (9-IV-3,IV-16)
Seldon, Hari
Mathematician of Helicon who first attracted attention as the result of the
paper which he presented at the Decennial Convention on Trantor, outlining the
theoretical potential of psychohistory. When it became clear that various
factions on Trantor would try to use psychohistory for their own political ends,
Seldon was given protection by Daneel Olivaw, then (as Eto Demerzel) Chief of
Staff to Cleon I. Daneel concurred with Seldon's belief that the collapse of the
Galactic Empire was inevitable, and encouraged him to develop his ideas into a
form which could provide a social structure strong enough to form a new and more
resilient Second Empire, while reducing to a minimum the intervening period of
chaos. While at Streeling University Seldon attempted the historical research
which he believed could help him develop psychohistory, but failed to find the
information he needed. In Mycogen and Dahl he discovered some of the mythology
surrounding the forgotten planets Aurora and Earth, and the existence in
prehistoric times of robots. After being taken to Wye, where Rashelle's
attempted coup was pre-emptively defeated by Demerzel, he deduced Daneel's true
identity, and realised that a practical psychohistory could be developed from
the cosmopolitan social milieu of Trantor itself.
He returned to Streeling University where he was able to continue his work as
head of the Maths Department, and after his successful handling of the
Joranumite crisis, and on Demerzel's recommendation, succeeded Demerzel as First
Minister to Cleon, a post which he held for ten years until his resignation
after the assassination of Cleon.
Through the military government which followed, the benign reign of Agis XIV and
the autocracy of the Commission of Public Safety, he continued his research but
found funding increasingly difficult to find, and when his increasingly
well-known views on the state of the Empire met with hostility went through a
prolonged period of disillusionment. With the discovery first of his
granddaughter Wanda's, then Stettin Palver's and Bor Alurin's mental powers, he
returned to his work with renewed vigour in the knowledge that the Second
Foundation essential to his Plan could be established, and at the time of his
death was Professor Emeritus of Psychohistory at Streeling University. (8; 9;
10-I)
Seldon, Raych
Boy of Dahl, twelve years old when Hari Seldon met him during his visit to the
Billibotton area of Dahl in search of Mother Rittah. Raych was later adopted as
a son by Hari, and when the growing popularity of the Joranumite movement began
to pose a threat to the position of Eto Demerzel as First Minister, he was sent
into Dahl to investigate Laskin Joranum. There he succeeded in convincing
Joranum that Demerzel was a robot, a double-bluff which led to Joranum's public
humiliation and eventual exile.
After a spell working for the Imperial civil service in the Ministry of
Population, he was sent into Wye to investigate Gambol Deen Namarti, who
recognised him, and drugged him with Desperance to force him to join Namarti and
Gleb Andorin's plan to assassinate his father. This was forestalled through the
intervention of Manella Dubanqua, who he had first met in Wye, and who he later
married. After taking up a post at the University of Santanni, he was killed
when anti-Empire rebels attacked the University. (8-14-68 etc.; 9)
Seldon, Wanda
Daughter of Raych Seldon and Manella Dubanqua. After discovering that she had
mental powers which could help make psychohistory a practical reality, she
stayed on Trantor with her grandfather Hari when her parents and sister left for
Santanni. With Stettin Palver, she formed the core of what became the Second
Foundation. (9-III,IV)
Seldon Convention
Psychological convention at which Hari Seldon put into action his plan to
establish the Foundations. The records of the convention were studied by Ebling
Mis during his visit to the University of Trantor Library with the Darells and
the Mule. (11-II-25)
Seldon Crises
Key events in the development of the Foundation, usually accompanied by
political unrest, were marked by the operation of the Time Vault, at which a
hologram of Hari Seldon explained the problem which had just been negotiated.
(10; 11; 12; 13)
Seldon Crisis (first)
c.50FE the Foundation had become increasingly isolated from the rest of the
galaxy, and was under threat from the neighbouring Kingdoms which had broken
away from the Empire. No longer able to rely for protection on its status as an
Empire-backed scientific institution, the Foundation was forced into the realm
of local politics in order to play the Kingdoms against one another and maintain
a balance of power. This change in policy was accompanied by Salvor Hardin's
siezure of administrative power from the Encyclopedia Trustees. (10-II)
Seldon Crisis (second)
c.80FE, when maintaining the balance of power between the Four Kingdoms was no
longer enough, the Foundation extended its political control of the Periphery
through a "priesthood" of technicians who kept the Kingdoms' power plants and
industry going. Technical expertise was kept strictly to the Foundation, the
Kingdoms being allowed to believe in the spiritual power of a religion based on
the Foundation. (10-III)
Seldon Crisis (third)
c.FE155 the hold of the Foundation's "religion" of advanced science over the
Periphery was weakening, and for a while there was a power struggle between the
traditionalists, led by Jorane Sutt, and the independent trading interests,
personified by Hober Mallow. This was marked by the collapse of the
Sutt-instigated public trial of Hober Mallow and Mallow's election as Mayor.
(10-V)
Seldon Crisis (fourth)
The weakening Empire's last serious attempt at reasserting its authority began
with its last capable general, Bel Riose, launching a military expedition
against the Foundation. The threat subsided when an increasingly paranoid
emperor recalled Riose. (11-I)
Seldon Crisis (fifth)
As the owners of the Foundation's big trading companies strengthened their grip
on government and became increasingly authoritarian, independent traders were
increasingly isolated, and tension had built to the point of civil war. This
conflict was overtaken by the Mule's conquest of the Foundation. (11-II)
Seldon Crisis (eighth)
498FE, there was a possibility of the Foundation moving its administrative
capital away from Terminus as part of a too-hasty move towards the centre of the
Galaxy. Harla Branno, then mayor, recognised the dangers and successfully fought
to maintain the status quo. It was the appearance of Hari Seldon's hologram in
the Time Vault with an accurate description of the state of the Foundation which
convinced Branno that the Second Foundation still existed. (13-II-6)
Seldon Plan
Hari Seldon's work in the field of psychohistory led him to see as inevitable
the collapse of the Galactic Empire through the vulnerability of the highly
centralised autocracy on Trantor to opportunist attack.
His Plan to secure as quick and humane as possible a transition to a stable
Second Empire consisted essentially of two foundations. The First, disguised
initially as an Encyclopedia Galactica to gain Imperial funding, formed a
resilient economic core based on advancing technology which would expand as the
old Empire collapsed. The Second, hidden from all but themselves, consisted of
psychohistorians with mental powers who would continue to develop the Plan while
ensuring that the First Foundation stuck to it.
As a part of the Plan, the staff recruited for the Encyclopedia project were
exiled to Terminus, where, as the Foundation, they could expand in relative
safety from the collapsing Empire while having a technological edge over their
less well-prepared neighbours.
The people of the Foundation itself was aware of the Seldon Plan only as
something which they believed had guaranteed in advance the Foundation's
long-term success as the inheritor of the old Empire. (10; 11; 12; 13)
Semic, Elvett
Professor-emeritus of physics at the University of Terminus who helped Toran
Darell design the Mental Static Device used against the Second Foundation agents
on Terminus. (12-II-9,20,21)
Senter, Lee
Leader of a farming community on Trantor after the Great Sack. Senter met Bayta
and Toran Darell, Ebling Mis, and the Mule on their landing. (11-II-23)
Sermak, Sef
Terminus City Councillor, and one of the founders of the Action Party. Although
the policies of then-Mayor Salvor Hardin were proved right, Sermak evidently
gained enough political power at a later date to institute land reforms in the
neighbouring Kingdom of Smyrno. (10-III-1,4,V-1)
Settlers
Second wave of emigrants which left Earth, after the Spacers had lapsed into
moribundity and complacency. Starting with Baleyworld, the Settlers eventually
spread throughout most of the habitable parts of the galaxy. (4; 14)
Shandess, Quindor
Twenty-fifth First Speaker of the Second Foundation. Essentially a scholar
during an extended time of peace of prosperity for both Foundations, he broke
with convention by attempting to apply the Seldon Plan to an individual, Golan
Trevize, but saw enough to agree with Stor Gendibal about the importance of
Trevize and the existence of what he called Anti-Mules with powers of mental
control more subtle than the Second Foundation's own.
Importantly, he supported Gendibal against the hostility of the other Speakers
in general and the ambition of Delora Delarmi in particular, enabling Gendibal
to survive Delarmi's attempt to have him removed from the Table. He also agreed
with Gendibal's call for a total network of Second Foundationers in order to
supply Gendibal with enough power to confront Gaia. (13-5,7,8,10)
Shekt, Affret
Physicist at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Chica, Earth, in the ninth
century of the Galactic Empire, once politically active as an Assimilationist.
Inventor of the Synapsifier. (7-4 etc.)
Shekt, Pola
Affret Shekt's daughter, and a worker at the Institute for Nuclear Research in
Chica, Earth, in the ninth century of the Galactic Empire. Later wife of Bel
Arvardan. (7-4 etc.)
Simpson
Colleague of Elijah Baley on New York's Police Force. (1-1)
Siwenna
Former capital of the Normannic Sector. Used as a base by Wiscard during his
planned takeover of the region, Siwenna's people rebelled only to
be attacked by Imperial forces. (10-V-10)
Skystrip Two
Elder of the Temple of Mycogen. (8-11-52)
Smitheus
One of the Outer Worlds. (3-12-49)
Smitko
Bacteriologist of Earth in the ninth century of the Galactic Empire, treated
with the Synapsifier in order to speed development of the virus to be used in
the Zealots' war against the rest of the Empire. (7-20)
Smool
Hiroko's father. (14-VI-17-75)
Smushyk
Planet of the Periphery. (12-II-18)
Smyrno
Prefect some 50 parsecs from Terminus, and one of the Four Kingdoms, rebelling
against Imperial rule at around the same time as Anacreon. For a while between
the disintegration of the Empire in the Periphery and the establishment of the
Foundation as a political force, Smyrno was at war with Anacreon. It was the
birthplace of Hober Mallow and Munn Li Compor. (10-II-2)
Sobhaddartha, Jogoroth
Sayshellian Customs official who inspected Trevize's and Pelorat's Far Star on
their visit to Sayshell. (13-9-40)
Society of Ancients
See Earth. (7-6)
Solaria
Planet, 9,500 miles in diameter, the outermost of three orbiting a star in what
in Imperial and later times was known as the Sirius Sector, and the last of the
fifty Outer Worlds to be colonized by the Spacers, settled from the neighbouring
world of Nexon when Nexon's ruling class found the affluence of their lifestyles
threatened by an increasing population and limitations on the number of robots
they were allowed. The Solarians' expertise in constructing robots enabled them
to corner the market exporting high-quality, specialized robots to the other
Outer Worlds, and to keep their independence secure, with strict birth and
immigration controls keeping their population stable at 20,000, living in 30
million square miles of fertile land, while with some 10,000 robots per human
they became the most robotocized of all the Outer Worlds.
By the time of Elijah Baley's visit to Solaria some two hundred years after its
independence, the development of sophisticated trimensional viewing systems
meant that its citizens never had to meet save for sexual contact between
partners who had been matched by gene analysis, preferring to remain alone on
their huge estates. All work was done by robots, including the ectogenetic
raising of young from embryo to adulthood, with month-old foetuses grown on a
farm, where they were screened and unhealthy specimens or unwanted mutations
destroyed.
Its small and widely dispersed population, and general lack of personal and
familial ambition because of universal affluence and the lack of traditional
family structures and the secrecy of parentage records, meant that crime was
virtually unknown.
When Aurora's non-interventionist foreign policy led to a new and vigorous wave
of colonization from Earth all communications from Solaria ceased, and it was
assumed that its human population had abandoned the planet to the robots, which
D.G.Baley's salvage expedition found to have been programmed to attack as
non-human any visitors without the distinctive Solarian accent.
Solaria was forgotten until, many thousands of years later, Golan Trevize, Janov
Pelorat and Bliss landed during their search for the lost planet Earth. They
found that while conflicts had raged in the rest of the galaxy, the Spacers of
Solaria had adopted a policy of total isolationism, though they had apparently
kept up with events around them by monitoring hyperspatial communications, and
that through genetic engineering had turned themselves into hermaphrodites with
brains capable of transducing external energy sources.
The planet was divided into 1,200 estates with extensive underground mansions,
Sarton Bander's estate being some 40,000 square kilometres in area, each ruled
by a single adult Solarian living in complete isolation except for essential
electronic contact with other Rulers. Robots carried out maintenance work,
produced goods for trade with other Rulers, and were given the upbringing of the
fertilized egg when a Ruler needed offspring. The population was rigidly
controlled, with surplus children being killed, and the energy needs of each
estate was met by the conversion of heat flow within the boundaries of the
estate to mechanical energy, through the Solarians' transducer-lobes. (2;
3-6-24; 4-2,4-12-49; 14-IV)
Sopellor, Evander
Lieutenant of the Foundation's Mayoralty Security Corps sent to escort Golan
Trevize from Security headquarters to his house on the occasion of Trevize's
arrest and exile. (13-1-4)
Southwark
Seaside city of Rhodia. (6-10)
Spacers
Descendants of the early emigrants from Earth, who had colonized the fifty Outer
Worlds before Earth's population increase led to its urbanization, overthrown
Earth's domination in the Great Rebellion, and secured a monopoly of
hyperspatial travel through a rate of technological progress which far
outstripped that of an overcrowded and resource-rationed Earth. Through the
eradication of pathogenic organisms, selective breeding and an intensive study
of ageing processes, they enjoyed lifetimes of over three centuries in luxury
and personal security due to their highly advanced and numerous robots.
Spacer attitudes towards Earth became sharply polarized into Globalist and
Humanist, though both factions attempted to some extent to hide their fear of
contact with Earthpeople who still carried potentially dangerous diseases. The
Humanists' attempt to encourage Earth to become an integrated human-robot
society along the lines of the Outer Worlds failed, and the Spacers' already
pronounced individualism and materialism became complacency and moribundity.
When Earth began its own wave of colonization without robots the Spacers were
unable to compete with the more numerous and vigorous Settlers, and after they
were first ostracized and then forgotten by the Settlers, with the exception of
the descendants of Aurora of the Mycogen sector of Trantor and the extreme
isolationist Solaria, all the Spacer worlds died. (1; 2; 14)
Spacetown
Enclave of Spacers on Earth, abandoned after the murder there of Roj Nemennuh
Sarton, and when the Spacers realised that without a focus for anti-robot and
anti-Spacer sentiment a conservative Earth would be more likely to take the
initiative in colonizing the galaxy themselves. (1-2,7)
Speaker
See Foundation, Second. (12-I-1,2,3,4,6,II-8,10,22; 13-5,7,8,10)
Speaker, First
See Foundation, Second. (12-I-1,2,3,4,6,II-8,10,22; 13-5,7,8,10)
Squires
Term used on Florina to refer to the Sarkite rulers who lived in the Upper City.
On Sark itself it referred more to the wealthiest of the Sarkites. Most
specifically of all, the Great Squires were the five Squires of Balle, Bort,
Fife, Rune and Steen, heads of landowning families who between them controlled
both Sark and the trade in kyrt from Florina. (5)
Stanmark
Town outside Terminus City, the home of Toran Darell. (12-II-18)
Stannell II
Early, and evidently mad, Emperor. Deposed by Edard. (7-6)
Stannell VI
Described as the last strong emperor, presiding over a brief cultural and social
renascence in the Empire. Died c.105FE. (10-V-10; 11-I-4)
Starlet
Imperial patrol ship of Bel Riose's fleet, lost during Riose's initial move
against the Foundation. (11-I-3)
Star's End
One of the supposed clues left by Hari Seldon to the location of the Second
Foundation, "at the other end of the galaxy". Bail Channis used the similarity
with the name Tazenda as one of the reasons for leading Han Pritcher and the
Mule there. (9-IV-34,V; 12-I-2,22; 13-4-16)
Steen
One of the five continents of Sark. (5-9,14)
Stettin
Ruler (self-styled "First Citizen" after the Mule) of Kalgan at the time of
Homir Munn and Arkady Darell's visit, he was manipulated by the Second
Foundation into launching an unsuccessful attack on the Foundation, which the
Second Foundation believed was still too inward-looking after their earlier
conquest by the Mule. (12-II-12,13,14)
Streeling
Sector of Imperial Trantor. Hari Seldon first stayed at Streeling University
while trying to avoid the attentions of the Imperium, later returning as a
permanent member of staff when it became clear that he could continue his
research in relative safety. (8-3,4,5,6; 9-I,III,IV)
Sunbadger
Dahlian slang term for security officer. (8-XVI-78)
Sunmaster Fourteen
High Elder of Mycogen who, at Chetter Hummin's instigation, provided refuge from
the unwanted attentions of the Imperium for Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili, and
who later released them when they had illegally entered the Sacratorium.
(8-8,9-57,58)
Suranoviremblastiran
See Novi, Sura. (13-19-82)
Sutt, Jorane
Described by Ankor Jael as "the cleverest politician on the planet", the
Foundation mayor's secretary who sent Hober Mallow to Korell to investigate the
disappearance of Foundation traders while himself plotting to use the orthodox
religious hierarchies established on the Four Kingdoms to take control of the
Foundation, where the traders were in the ascendancy. The ignominious collapse
of his public trial of Mallow effectively ended his political career. (10-V)
Sutt, Tomaz
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Encyclopedia Committee at the time of
Salvor Hardin's coup. (10-II-3)
Synapsifier
Affret Shekt's experimental device to improve the learning capacity of the
mammalian nervous system, functioning by speeding the transmission of nerve
impulses. (7-3,4,5; 13-12-44)
Synnax
Home planet of Gaal Dornick. (1-I-1)
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