#Trantor

[picspammer]

FOUNDATION S1 E1 THE EMPEROR'S PEACE

[spockvarietyhour]

Ringstation Approach, "Why the Gods Made Wine"

[providence-park]

As waters rise, territories shrink. That's what happened on Synnax, and that's what happened with Empire. Day by day, decade by decade, the First Foundation nibbled away planets from edges of Empire. And Empire steadily contracted.

FOUNDATION | S2 - E1 | IN SELDON'S SHADOW

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Ruins of Trantor by Angus McKie

[heuristicist]

I wonder how Yugo Amaryl felt, a dahlite heat-sinker elevated to work on the most profound issues of his contemporary period. To have met and become a cohort of Hari Seldon during his flight from Eto Demerzel. Dahlite.

[occasionalmaven]

Research totally counts as working on your fic, right? Anyway, here’s a quick visualization of ~ 250 sq km /100 sq miles. 

Manhattan + Bronx

London

It’s pretty damn big. 

And according to Prelude to Foundation, the Imperial Palace + Gardens occupy the same amount of space. 

While Apple’s version is nice, it ain’t nearly big enough. 

Link to the map site! 

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[j-august]

He sighed noisily, and realized finally that he was on Trantor at last; on the planet which was the centre of all the Galaxy and the kernel of the human race. He saw none of its weaknesses. He saw no ships of food landing. He was not aware of a jugular vein delicately connecting the forty billion of Trantor with the rest of the Galaxy. He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.

Isaac Asimov, Foundation

[ambersadventuresinwonderland]

Finally managed to find the movie accurate Worlds Smallest Super Soaker for my Ernest doll to hold. 🖤🎃🥛🔫

[unperson42]

So, one of the major inspirations for Coruscant (and the first version of the city-planet in sci-fi that I'm aware of) is the planet Trantor from Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels*. In one of the later books Asimov published, Prelude to Foundation, these exact sorts of cultural enclave become a major plot point.

If you don't know the books, a major element of the story is psychohistory, which is able to predict the future with a high degree of accuracy by extrapolating how human behaviour will effect political and social events to come. This science is invented by Hari Seldon, who is dead for most of the books, but tends to show up from time to time as a hologram. In Prelude, however, we see him as a young man, still trying to develop psychohistory.

Without going into the full plot of the book, Trantor ends up being the start of psychohistory. It turns out that a planet sized city has thousands of different ethnic and cultural groups, each explicitly shown to have their own enclave. Seldon makes a study of how these enclaves interact with each other, as well as the wider government of the Empire (different Empire than Palpatine's vanity project), and then treats that as a microcosm of the galaxy as a whole.

The reason I bring all this is up is that, given how heavily influenced Coruscant is by Trantor, I think it makes sense for Coruscant to have similar enclaves, and probably in similar numbers. In fact, they may even have people making similar studies of the different enclaves' interactions in order to better understand the disparate peoples of the Republic, and help maintain unity. I specify the Republic because this feels like the kind of thing the Empire would not care about, maintaining power through fear as they do. Tarkin Doctrine and all that.

I think Star Wars is a marvelously detailed fictional universe, but even the most detailed fiction can't cover everything. Where canon does not provide information, therefore, why not build a headcanon out of the inspirations?

* I assume all this is true of the current Apple TV series as well, but I havent seen it, so don't feel I can speak to it.

Coruscant has GOT to have different places like Ryl Town or Little Shilli or Space Harlem/Space SoHo and all that. Like they’re probably massive and stuff due to the size and population density of the planet but it’s still the same concept. Pockets of certain demographics or developing cultures…

[trantor-inc]

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[judahmaccabees]

Self, you Said?

[suddenlypiggieseverywhere]

[nebulastarr]

Y'ALL!!!!

THE VOICE

THE ROBE

THE HAIR

THAT THING HE DOES WITH HIS FINGERS (i don't know if there's an actual name for it)

THE FACT THAT THE ROBE IS SLIGHTLY OPEN

JULY 14TH CAN NOT COME FAST ENOUGH

First clip Foundation Season 2!

[joehills]

Isaac Asimov: the first five books of my Foundation series tell how one mathematician became a legend by predicting social forces at interplanetary scales.

Also Asimov: the 6th book will be a prequel about him being dunked on for months straight for not knowing liberal arts like at all. He gets owned so badly by experts in other fields that he repeatedly nearly dies. I’ll open each chapter with an excerpt from an encyclopedia written ten thousand years later that makes this period of Seldon’s life sound historically important and mysterious, but then the actual story is about how this moron doesn’t know the word “religious” or how to use an oven or clock. The novel will stress out the same types of readers who are bothered by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia because if Craig Mazin, Charlie Day, and Megan Ganz wrote an episode called “Dennis invents Psychohistory” that work would be functionally identical to this novel to all but the shrewdest of branch managers of a regional paper company. While this novel is a prequel, it will advance readers’ understanding of the Foundation setting as ineffective Trantorian leaders trip over themselves trying to capture Seldon, while he continuously fails upward like Bill Murray in the film The Man Who Knew too Little so preposterously and frequently that it will become inescapably thematically clear that his Foundation can only inevitably do the same. I expect this will be a great comfort to readers.

Me: huh, that was a choice.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987