The First Galactic Empire is crumbling and disintegrating.This process of decay and decay has been going on for centuries, and only one person fully understands the fact. That man was Hari Seldon - the last great scientist of the First Empire.In his hands psychohistory was developed to such a height that human behavior has since been reduced to the operation of mathematical equations. While the behavior of individuals cannot be predicted, Seldon discovered that the responses of human groups can be processed statistically.The larger the population size, the more accurate the statistical prediction will be.However, the group studied by Seldon is the total population of tens of millions of inhabited worlds in the entire galaxy.

Based on the equation he derived, Seldon predicted that the First Empire would eventually perish, and mankind would have to go through 30,000 years of misery and suffering before another Second Empire would rise from the ruins.However, if some existing historical conditions can be corrected, the 30,000-year "Great Fault" can be reduced to a single millennium - eliminating the 29,000-year transition period. To achieve this purpose, Seldon established two bases of scientists, named "First Base" and "Second Base" respectively, and deliberately set them up at "two opposing ends of the galaxy".Among them, the first base focused on physical science, and its development process is completely open; while the second base, composed of psychohistorians and spiritual scientists, has left almost no records of any kind.

The important history of the first four centuries of the Great Fault is detailed in The Foundation Trilogy.First Foundation (commonly referred to simply as "Foundation", since the existence of Second Foundation remains largely unknown) started out as a small, forgotten community in the void of space on the outer rim of the galaxy.Periodic crises hit the base one after another, and each crisis contained various variables in human activities at that time.Its freedom of action is limited to a specific trajectory, as long as it continues to advance along this trajectory, there will be a bright development in the end, and then another new game can be opened.And all of this was planned hundreds of years ago by the long-dead Hari Seldon.

The First Base first conquered several backward planets around it with its superior technology, and then it was forced to fight against the warlords who broke away from the dying empire and ruled the roost, and defeated them one by one.Then, the First Base had a head-on conflict with the remnants of the empire, and finally won the final victory under the threat of force from the last powerful emperor of the empire and the last real general under his command. The Seldon plan seems to be going quite smoothly, and it seems that there will be no more difficulties and obstacles, and the Second Empire will surely rise on time.In addition, turmoil and war disasters during the transition period can also be minimized.

However, since psychohistory is a statistical science, there is an inevitable chance that something will go wrong.The events that followed were indeed not even foreseen by Hari Seldon.A self-proclaimed "Mule" rises out of nowhere. He has the unique spiritual power in the galaxy, and can adjust human emotions and desires at will, thereby reshaping the spiritual structure of others.He can transform the toughest enemy into the most loyal servant; no army can - and will - be against him.The First Base was finally doomed to fall, and the Seldon Project was about to be buried in the ashes of history.

At this point, only the mysterious Second Base is left as the only hope for the galaxy.However, the mule's appearance was so sudden that the second base was caught off guard and had to start planning a long-term counterattack plan.The second base's greatest defensive cost is that its whereabouts are unknown.In order to complete the feat of conquering the galaxy, the mule must find it; and the loyalists of the first base in exile are also trying their best to find the whereabouts of the second base, hoping to get its Austrian aid. Searches by both sides were fruitless in the end.The mule's first wave of search operations was stopped by an ordinary woman - Beda Darrell, which just bought enough time for the second base to plan a seamless operation, and finally completely stopped the mule. ambition.And the next mission of the second base is to slowly bring the Seldon plan back on track.

But in this way, the second base was forced to be exposed.The First Foundation learned of the existence of the Second Foundation, but they did not want their future to be predetermined by those psychiatrists.The physical force of the first base is extremely powerful, and the second base, in addition to defusing the threat of force, must complete a dual task as soon as possible - making the first base give up its search efforts and hide itself behind the scenes again. Under the leadership of the greatest Chief Speaker of all time, Prim Pavor, the Second Foundation has finally accomplished these missions.He made the first base think it had won a big victory and that it had wiped out the second base.Since then, the First Foundation has devoted itself to developing a force that swept across the galaxy, while the Second Foundation has completely disappeared.

Today, the first base has stood in the galaxy for four hundred and ninety-eight years, and its power is at its peak.However, there is one person who cannot accept this fact...