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    millennia the seat of imperial authority was located on the ecumenopolis of Trantor, whose population exceeded 40 billion, until it was sacked in the year...
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  • the two Foundations to take its place. Called forth to stand trial on Trantor for allegations of treason (for foreshadowing the decline of the Galactic...
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  • Trantor appears there and takes the mayor's oldest son as his fifth and final wooden doll. In the ensuing fight between Trantor and Ernest, Trantor turns...
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  • regarded as part of the Empire series, but does not directly mention either Trantor or the Spacer worlds. One character is said to have a Visi-Sonor, the same...
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    "city." This concept was already current in science fiction in 1942, with Trantor in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. When made public, Doxiadis' idea of...
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  • appoint Hari Seldon as the First Minister of the Galactic Empire. Powerful Trantor High Council member Betan Lamurk opposes the independent Seldon's appointment...
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  • event of the Foundation's triumph over Riose. Devers and Barr head to Trantor in an attempt at turning Cleon II against Riose by implicating the latter...
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  • Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper is a video game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, MSX, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST released by Go! (a label of U.S. Gold)...
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  • After a ten-year period of relative silence on Trantor, the remains of the political faction exploit Trantor's faults in an attempted coup. As a result, the...
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    Adaptec (redirect from Trantor Systems)
    their reach in the SCSI peripheral market. In March 1993, they acquired Trantor Systems Ltd. of Fremont, California, for $10 million. In July 1995, they...
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    takes place before the actual founding of the Galactic Empire, before even Trantor becomes important. It starts with a young man attending the University...
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  • planet with Devers in tow. They travel to the Imperial capital planet, Trantor, and plot to implicate Riose and Emperor Cleon II's Privy Secretary Ammel...
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  • capacity as mathematics professor at Streeling University on the planet Trantor, Seldon develops psychohistory, an algorithmic science that allows him...
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  • her. Back on the ship, crewman Ranger sees Captain Trantor running as if being attacked. Trantor spontaneously combusts as she fires a weapon in an airlock...
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  • predictions of the Empire's imminent fall, and exile him from the capital world, Trantor, to the distant planet Terminus. But thanks to a devastating and unprecedented...
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  • ancestor of Ernest in Ernest Scared Stupid. He helped banish a troll named Trantor, who Ernest accidentally released several generations later. Phineas was...
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  • intervention of the Second Foundation. Arcadia escapes from Kalgan to Trantor with the help of a Trantorian trader named Preem Palver. With his help...
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  • same universe as the Foundation series. Earth is part of the Empire of Trantor, later the setting for Hari Seldon's invention of psychohistory. Asimov...
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  • Dornick travels from her academically repressive homeworld of Synnax to Trantor, capital of the Galactic Empire, to study under the famed Hari Seldon,...
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  • some of their favorite songwriters. Initial pages added included Justin Trantor, Meghan Trainor, and Missy Elliott. Spotify thereafter announced it was...
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  • complete control, as the First Foundation fears, it has similar worries. On Trantor, home of the Second Foundation, Stor Gendibal, a rising intellect in the...
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    Long Room was a stand-in for a reading room in the imperial capital of Trantor. "College Administrative, Executive and other Officers". College Calendar...
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  • Football Gamestar Scott Orr, Dennis Kirsch, Mark Madland Activision 1987 Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper Go! David Quinn, Nick Bruty, David Whittaker 1987...
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    Empire) The Currents of Space. 1952. ISBN 0-553-29341-9. (Republic of Trantor still expanding) Foundation prequels: Prelude to Foundation. 1988. ISBN 0-553-27839-8...
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  • was in some early sources called "Jhantor" in homage to Isaac Asimov's Trantor. Production artwork produced by Ralph McQuarrie for Return of the Jedi...
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    earthquake in 2010. Fictional planet-wide megacities (ecumenopoleis) include Trantor in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of books and Coruscant (population...
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  • (Foundation universe), a food-producing sector of the fictional planet Trantor in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of science fiction novels Mycogen Seeds...
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    city came from 1940s science fiction works, especially Isaac Asimov's Trantor. Visually, it resembles the Art Deco skyscrapers of Manhattan. Star Wars...
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  • awarded his doctorate, who has been invited to the Imperial capital planet Trantor from his home planet Synnax by famed mathematician and psychologist Hari...
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