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Table
The twelve Speakers who made up the Executive Council of the Second Foundation.
(13-7-24)
Tanto, Marlo
Supposedly a Trantorian news journalist, actually an agent provocateur for the
Imperial security forces. (8-15-73,74)
Tarki, Lem
Foundation Action Party activist. (10-III-4)
Tazenda
Oligarchy of 27 inhabited planets. Not advanced scientifically, strictly
neutral, and unambitious, Tazenda was chosen by the Second Foundation as the
first of the decoy locations to present to the Mule as
their own, and was destroyed by the Mule's forces in consequence. (12-I-2,6)
Tech-man
Member of a hereditary caste of atomic power-plant supervisors. Their knowledge
of the systems they tended was purely empirical. (10-V-10,11,12)
Tennar, Dugal
General in the Imperial forces, and head of the military junta which took power
after the assassination of Cleon I. Originally from Mandanov, his desire to
become Emperor led to his seeking advice from Hari Seldon. Seldon's
recommendation that the tax system be simplified led to the introduction of the
poll tax which was a large factor in the fall of his government shortly
afterwards. (9-III-12,16,17)
Terens, Myrlyn
Native of Florina who, while employed in the Sarkite Civil Service, first
interviewed the agent of the Interstellar Spatio-analytic Bureau later known as
Rik on his arrival on Sark with the discovery that Florina's destruction was
imminent. With an almost equal hatred of Florina's Sarkite overlords and
distrust of an expansionist Trantorian Empire, he psychic-probed Rik and became
Townman of a Florinian mill town in an attempt to play the competing interests
of Sark and Trantor against one another and gain independence for Florina.
Eventually he was forced to side with Trantor, and was employed by them to
supervise the subsequent evacuation of Florina. (5)
Terminus
Isolated planet of the Periphery, between Anacreon and Smyrno, 50 light years
outside the Province of Anacreon and 50,000 parsecs from Trantor. Predominantly
oceanic, with 10,000 inhabited islands, and with relatively fertile soils but
poorly-endowed with minerals, especially iron, copper and aluminium, it had been
identified and named by explorers but never settled because of its remoteness.
It was rediscovered by the staff of the Galactic Library at the request of Hari
Seldon, ostensibly as a suitable location for his Encyclopedia Galactica
project, in reality as a world where the Foundation could work unmolested by the
dying Empire while having ample opportunity to extend their own political and
economic influence as the beginnings of a Second Empire. (9-IV-2; 10-II etc.;
13-4-16)
Thallos
Stettin's predecessor as First Citizen of Kalgan. (12-II-13)
Thalus, Emmer
Sergeant of Wye's security forces, who escorted Hari Seldon, Dors Venabili and
Raych to Wye after they had fled the attentions of the Dahl police. Killed by
Rashelle after he had refused to follow her order to kill Seldon. (8-17,18)
Thoobing, Littoral
Foundation politician capable enough to have been appointed Ambassador to
Sayshell in exchange for not contesting the mayoralty with Harla Branno. He was
fifty-four, and had held the post for seven years, at the time of the Gaian
crisis, when he attempted, unsuccesfully, to point out to Liono Kodell that a
military move against Sayshell would be likely to result in rebellion elsewhere
and the disintegration of the Foundation Federation. (13-16-67)
Thool, Altim
Solarian doctor, and father of Gladia Delmarre. (2-7,17)
Thornbowe, Elizabeth
One-time friend of Jessie Baley. (1-14)
Three Mile Island
Location of the historical incident which turned Earth's public opinion against
power from nuclear fission, and where Kelden Amadiro and Levular Mandamus made
their base of operations during their plan to make Earth become radioactive.
(4-V-18-88)
Time, Metric
See Metric Time.
Time Vault
Device on Terminus consisting of a simulacrum of Hari Seldon which operated at
times of uncertainty (Seldon Crises) to explain something of the nature of the
problem. The Time Vault was only "wrong" once, after the fifth Seldon Crisis,
when the anticipated events were subsumed by the overrunning of the Foundation
by the Mule's forces. Only the first, second, fifth and eighth operations of the
Time Vault are described in any detail. (9-V; 10-II-7,III-9; 11-II-15,18;
13-1-1)
Tinter
Lieutenant on Hober Mallow's Far Star. (10-V-4)
Tippellum
Junior officer in the Foundation navy during the war with Kalgan. (12-II-19)
Tireless
Tyranni ship. (6-11)
Tisalver, Casilia
Jirad Tisalver's wife. (8-13-31)
Tisalver, Jirad
Man of Dahl, employed as a programmer at the local holovision station, and host
to Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili during their stay in Dahl. (8-13-31)
Tithonus
The larger of Aurora's two satellites. Tithonus II was the smaller. (3-19-83)
Tobin, Jack
Colleague of Elijah Baley at New York's police department. (1-7)
Townman
Native governor of Florina, educated on and appointed by Sark, whose job was to
keep Florina's milltowns quiet and up to quota. Despite being better-educated
than most Sarkites, the Townmen had little power and, like members of the
Sarkite Civil Service, were not allowed to have children to keep the Florinian
gene-pool weak. (5)
Trans-Nebular Kingdoms
See Nebular Kingdoms.
Trantor
Planet in the inner subring of the spiral arms of the Galaxy, and as close to
the Galaxy's centre as a habitable system could be. In the space of five hundred
years, Trantor grew from the Trantorian Republic of five worlds, through
Trantorian Confederation and Trantorian Empire, to become the administrative
centre of the Galactic Empire, at its peak its 75 million square miles (200
million square kilometres) of surface were, apart from the 100 square miles (250
square kilometres) of the grounds of the Imperial Palace and Galactic Library
and University, totally urbanized into some 800 domed sectors with varying
degrees of autonomy from the Imperium and containing some 40 billion people.
Although some indigenous flora and fauna could be found outside the domes, it
was more practical to grow food inside, and although the planet's seas were
fished, luxury foods had to be imported. About half of Trantor's energy needs
were met by the heatsinks, where the internal heat of the planet was converted
into electricity, with the other half coming from orbiting solar power stations,
island-based fusion stations, microfusion motors and wind-stations.
By the time Trantor had reached its peak the Galactic Empire was already in
irreversible decline, and when Hari Seldon arrived for the Decennial Convention
its population had been diminishing for some time, and its society was so
complex and fragile that the Imperial Government could keep control only by
encouraging just enough suspicion and factional fighting among its people to
avoid rebellion on the one hand and anarchy on the other.
While the psychohistorians of the Second Foundation, hidden in the Galactic
University and Library complex, successfully defended their grounds during the
Great Sack, they could make no attempt to save the rest of Trantor without
jeopardising their own existence. By 250 years after the Great Sack, Trantor
was, apart from the Second Foundation, a sparsely-settled world of
self-sufficient farmers who made up, in part, for the infertile soil by selling
metal stripped from the ruined cities. (5-6; 8; 9; 10-I; 11-I-9,II-23; 12-II-18;
13-5,7,8,10)
Trevize, Golan
At one time a Lieutenant in the Foundation Navy, elected to Terminus City
Council as a result of a political crisis over the location of the Foundation's
capital. By then the Second Foundation Observer Munn Li Compor had already noted
Trevize's unusual intuitive abilities and cultivated his friendship. Trevize was
thirty-two when, as a result of his outspokenness in maintaining that the Second
Foundation, believed destroyed 120 years earlier, was still active and exerting
a covert influence over the Foundation's development, he was sent into exile by
Harla Branno, with instructions to locate the Second Foundation.
With Janov Pelorat he joined in a search for the lost planet Earth, having come
to realise from the information Pelorat supplied that Earth was a possible
location of the Second Foundation. Their search initially took them to Gaia,
despite Trevize increasingly becoming aware that he was subtly being manipulated
into going there. On his arrival he discovered that Gaia was not the lost Earth,
and was told that he held the balance of power between the First Foundation, the
Second Foundation, and Gaia itself, and that he had to choose which of their
proposed futures for the galaxy would be best for humanity.
Having chosen Gaia's vision of Galaxia, he discovered that the removal of all
references to Earth from the Galactic University on Trantor was not Gaia's
doing, and decided, with the support of Gaia, to continue his search for Earth.
With Pelorat and Bliss, he travelled via Comporellon, Aurora, Solaria,
Melpomenia and Alpha to Earth. After discovering Daneel Olivaw on Earth's moon,
he realised that Galaxia was the best protection for humanity against invasion
by non-human intelligence. (13; 14)
Tribesmen
Mycogenian term for non-Mycogenians. (8-8-35)
Turbor, Jole
Foundation visicastor who had publicly questioned the supposed role of the
Second Foundation, and a co-conspirator with Toran Darell (the younger), Homir
Munn, Elvett Semic and Pelleas Anthor in their plan to search for the Second
Foundation. During the war with Kalgan he was a correspondent on board the ship
which picked up Preem Palver on his attempt to reach Terminus, and recognised
him as having knowledge of the whereabouts of the missing Arkady Darell.
(12-II-9,19)
Twer, Jaim
Leader of an independent trader's party seeking political representation for
traders on the Foundation Council. Hober Mallow's trial revealed him to be a
religious reactionary employed by Jorane Sutt to watch Mallow during the
latter's expedition to Korell. (10-V)
Twisting
Heliconian martial art of which Hari Seldon, Raych Seldon and Stettin Palver
were skilled exponents. (8-2-6,14-70,16-78; 9-I-2,14,IV-24,25)
Tyrann
One of the Nebular Worlds. A relatively harsh planet consisting largely of
desert, it concentrated its resources on building an advanced military
capability, which it used to conquer its neighbours. These it ruled with
ruthless efficiency, maintaining its position largely by retaining a monopoly of
space navigation techniques, keeping knowledge out of the hands of its subjects.
(6-10)
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