He seems uninvolved in Foundation affairs, but privately he allies himself with Barr. Undaunted, he encircles Foundation territory with carefully placed garrisons. Riose requests reinforcements, which the emperor denies. Its leaders realize that this is a crisis predicted by Hari Seldon. Riose probes the Foundation for weaknesses. Along with a sister organization at the far end of the galaxy, the two Foundations are meant to stitch civilization back together, preserving high technology and shortening the barbarism to a mere thousand years. The amazing device was brought to Siwenna decades earlier by a mysterious trader.īarr’s research shows that a Foundation was established centuries in the past by psychohistorian Hari Seldon, whose work predicted the collapse of the Empire and a 30,000-year dark age. Barr, who hates the Empire but whose family is under threat from Riose, shows the general a walnut-sized force-field generator. Imperial general Bel Riose visits scholar Ducem Barr on the distant planet Siwenna, searching for information about the mythical magicians of the equally mythical Foundation. The ebook edition of the 2004 Del Rey/Random House reprint of Foundation and Empire forms the basis for this study guide.
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