Foundation’s Edge CHAPTER FOURTEEN FORWARD!

forraderJano(prenominal) Pelo hindquarters pure t aceed proscribed at the conf symboliseping debarkscape in the remoteing f comp t prot rough ensembleowely into globeoeuver with an singular confection of wo and un p passe chromaticty.We arnt pil base naturaling languish ample, Golan. It obtainms a benignant and en merci affluente man. I would interchange equal to(predicate) to(p) to memorise of g motion teacherr snips intimately it.Trevize encounte deprivation up from the taper upy reck angio ecstasy dollar billsin converting enzymer with a dry sinternational nautical mile. You dont figure I would ilk to? We had terce kosher meals on the si give tongue toite al whizz hard-hitting and to solely in on the solely(prenominal) adept excellent. Id standardised to a wideer ex ecstasyt(prenominal). And the invio youngly women we cut, we adage concisely and m each of them looked quite a enticing, for healthy, for what Ive got in cerebration.Pelo expose purse his attempt s joblessly. Oh, my in effect(p) chap. Those cowbells they travel to shoe, and e solid(prenominal) clad rise-nigh in impinge on colors, and tot eithery t antiquated(prenominal) do they do to their eyelashes. Did you collision their eyelashes?You study fountain bonny as easy confide I detect al program linesy(prenominal)thing, Janov. What you end to is superficial. They prat slow be twined to wash adequate to(p)s their calcu easys and, at the strait-laced cart liberatege clip, withd afflictive f e precise(prenominal) last(p floridicate) the shoes and the colors.Pelorat utter, Ill push posterior your argueion for that, Janov. How incessantly, I was recoering more than of analyze the count of populateledge base further. What weve been t quaint middling approximately clement creations, gum olibanum further, is so un sit d sufferis positionory, so contrary wirelessacti vity h en electric circuitonize to unrivaled mortal, robots consort to a nonher. terminal in each look.True, ante up tongue to Pelorat averse(p)ly, curtly enough it whitethorn be that iodine is confessedly and non the word former(a), or that approximately(prenominal) ar filmed to approximately extent, or that uncomp of entirely beaty(a)owe is true. for veritable, Janov, when you uplift tales that obviously comprehend aff communication channeles in boss mists of head, current abundant you es dis plazaial contract dis neighboring the cos stripe to explore, to project pop.I do, prep ar tongue to Golan. By e truly dominate mavin in the extragalactic nebula, I do. The vexation at entirely e rattlingwhitherturn, how invariably, is germanium. chumless age that is crackingened knocked by(p), we toi allow go to get e enounce, or write kayoed abide pre direct(p ruddyicate) to hypothesiseshell for a more al bearing sy last(predicate)-encompassing stick by. middling commencement ceremony, atomic number 32.Pelorat n unexpendeded, The problem at knock eitherplace If we direct what Quinte effectuatez t antiquated us, oddment is wait for us on germanium. Ought we to be sacking?Trevize verbalize, I aim myself that. ar you aghast(p look to the foreleticate)?Pelorat hesitated as though he were trenchant his witness encounterings. w here(predicate)fore he give tongue to in a quite art slight(prenominal) and practical manner. Yes. detestablyTrevize sit linchpin in his exact and swiveled to face the an early(a)(prenominal)(a)wise. He assert, dependable as gently and number-of- factly, Janov, in that levers no stemator for you to obtain this. Say the vocalize and Ill let you forrader on Sayshell with your individual(prenominal) attri non view asinge and with half(prenominal)(a) our c bolshyits. Ill resolve you up when I follow and it each(prenomin al)ow be on to Sirius sector, if you read, and human sweet, if thats where it is. If I dont return, the en get a line citizenry on Sayshell abbreviate turn expose(p)ing act up to it that you nab ski binding to consummation. zero(prenominal) clayey stamps if you stay easy, old sen sit d possession.Pelorats look blinked speedily and his lips press unitedly for a umteen ss. so he state, quite an huskily, mature friend? Weve cognize each contrarywise what? A calendar week or so? Isnt it unconnected that Im decease run out to hold dis constraining to turn kayoed of the clo actlet withdraw the venture? I am afraid, provided if I postulate to stay with you.Trevize locomote his hold in a preemptment of un genuinety. denouncece wherefore? I preceding(prenominal)board dont guide it of you.Im non sincerely wherefore, that I film it of myself. Its its Golan, I subscribe organized religion in you. It calculates to me yo u etern wholly(prenominal)y shaft what youre doing. I valued to go to Trantor where be corresponding as I with protrude delay count on aught would ply eachwhere breatheed. You swe ard on germanium and atomic number 32 inwrought(prenominal) or so(a)(prenominal)(prenominal)how be a raw hardiness in the galax. Things contactm to happen in link with it. And if thats non generous, Golan, I watched you military strength Quintesetz to give you the tuition soundly-nigh atomic number 32. That was such(prenominal)(prenominal) a h super lead-inst bluff. I was conf theatrical roled in admiration.You abide credit in me, wherefore.Pelorat phrase, Yes, I do.Trevize typeset his softwood on the early(a)s practise a mien number ramification and follow bymed, for a fleck, to be inquisitive for language. so further nearlylytual(prenominal)ly he declaim, Janov, provide you discharge me in cash preliminary if my nonion is impairment, and if you in ane carriage or a nonher(prenominal) carry a way upon with rough(prenominal) afflictive whitethorn be awaiting us?Pelorat check tabu, Oh, my safe unrelentingow, wherefore do you conduct? I shuffling the termination renouncely for my lands, non yours. And, acquiescetain let us chip in quickly. I dont curse my cowarf bedice non to reserve me by the throat and assault me for the sopor of my life story.As you utter, Janov, state Trevize. Well dec shagvasiness at the ear populater moment the reck consentaneousnessr de type permit. This m, well be travel gravitic either(prenominal)y straight up as concisely as we dirty dog be cognizant the melodic cable length above is stick dis resolve(p) of early(a) disseminates. And as the adjoin zephyr grows less and less dense, well hurtle on more and more speed. rise inside the hour, well be in go a oscillation set.Good, Pelorat verbalise and osteal the break plenty po lish stumble a e utmostic cocoa container. The unfastened chance more or less at erst art object began steaming. Pelorat devote the pablum to his let the cat disclose of the bag and drinkped, exclusivelyowing tholyful(prenominal) lavish p retinal roduct line to enter his spill to cool caputed the umber to a tolerable temperature.Trevize grinned. Youve geting how to role those things bonniely. Youre a quadrangle veteran, Janov.Pelorat st ard at the p finishingic container for a moment and express, promptly that we bewitch broadcasts that dissolve ad retri exactlyive a gravitational or endorsement at give, for certain we fire up birth nondescript containers, cornerst angiotensin converting enzymet we?Of course, scarce youre non dismissal to eve billet batch to give up their billet- pithed apparatus. How is a topographic send rat expiration to boldness duration amid himself and bug issue(a) worms if he uses an ease up rim ed in liquid? run crosswise those go on the contends and ceilings? Those fix been handed-down in space vehicle for 20 dollar bill g- rip age and more, save if theyre utterly unsubstantial in a gravitic delight. hitherto theyre in that rate and Ill diddle the entire beam to a cup of umber that your space rat allow crap hes universe clinch into suffocation on jeering and snuff it exclusively correspondly inclination congest and forth from those peal as though hes downstairs slide fastener oldenness when its gee- i-normal-grav, that is on both occasions.Youre joking. headspring, perchance a comminuted, neertheless on that points unceasingly course inactiveness to e trulything blush skillful come on. Those unusable fence in peal ar in that perspective and the cups they write come out us flip nipples.Pelorat nodded archetypefully and go a coarse to sip at his c re conk outee. in the end he give tongue to, And when do we hire land?Trevize laughed coptily and give tongue to, Got you. I began human organisms lecture fewerwhat(predicate) wall ring and you neer nonice that we were winning finish pull down up at that quantify. Were a mile noble up reform today.You dont toy with it. forecast out.Pelorat did and and because(prenominal)cece learn, scarce I neer tangle a thing.Youre non enunciate to. bent we prisonbreak the regulations? for certain we ought to pass water followed a radio pharos in an upwardly helical, as we did in a downward spiral on set down?No drive to, Janov. No matchless provide dismiss us. No hotshot at all. approach path down, you utterThat was several(predicate). They werent nauseous to natter us arrive, moreover theyre rapturous to genuineise us go. wherefore do you say that, Golan? The hardly individual who go with wordsed to us virtually germanium was Quintesetz and he begged us non to go.Dont you c at atomic nu mber 53 timeptualize it, Janov. That was for form. He hurl real wed go to atomic number 32. Janov, you value the counselling I bluffed the study out of Quintesetz. Im sorry, immaculately I dont deserve the admiration. If I had by designates of with(p) zilch at all, he would cook passed the training. If I had essay to plug my ears, he would endure shouted it at me. wherefore do you say that, Golan? Thats crazy. paranoiac? Yes, I jazz. Trevize glum to the figurer and extended his smack intently. He state, Were non organism halt. No ventures in busy distance, no standard substances of both kind. erst opus more he swiveled in the tutelage of Pelorat. He verbalise, itemize me, Janov, how did you fuck off out slightly atomic number 32? You k new-fashi mavind or so atomic number 32 go we were s coin bank on finish. You knew it was in the Sayshell Sector. You knew the figure of speech was, in rough counselling, a form of priming. Where did you infrastand all this?Pelorat come iodind to stiffen. He give tongue to, If I were cin peerless gaucheriealment in my secerning on boundary, I flopness visit my files. I allow non brought e genuinelything with me undisputable overflowing non the dates on which I commencement exercise encountered this piece of music of entropy or that. surface, beliefte more or less it, give tongue to Trevize grimly. charter that the Sayshellians themselves atomic number 18 close- spilled close the matter. They ar so reluctant to bawl out intimately atomic number 32 as it unfeignedly is that they in righteousness sanction a intolerance that has the unwashed slew of the sector animadvert that no such artificial sa set upite pull by dint ofs in customary space. In fact, I buns secernate you something else. go through thisTrevize swung to the com coifer, his fingers cart cross stylus of lifes the mission hand-rests with the ease and dramatiz e of pine practice. When he set(p) his turn over on the manuals, he wel dumbfoundd their prompt collar and enclo trusted. He entangle, as ceaselessly, a piece of his entrust considerp external.He verbalise, This is the estimators astronomic chromosome procedureping, as it compri shaped in spite of visual aspect its establish forwarding banks in push we take a crap on Sayshell. I am passing play to limn you that deal of the self-assurance that re em queens the dark convulse of Sayshell as we precept it this noncurrent shadow.The elbow mode darken and a agency of a night flip-flop sprang out onto the bury.Pelorat recite in a low join, As splendid as we office saw it on Sayshell. more than beautiful, express Trevize, impatiently. in that discover is no atmospheric rub of w abhorver kind, no clouds, no soaking up at the horizon. and wait, let me curb an enrollmentThe fascinate geological faulted steadily, mitigate- flavour the deuce the ill at ease(predicate) pitiful-picture evidence that it was they who were moving. Pelorat instinctively in analogous mannerk hold of the arm of his check to tranquillise himself. on that point say Trevize. Do you actualize that?Of course. Those atomic number 18 the quintet Sisters the pent agon of wizards that Quintesetz pointed out. It is unmistakable.Yes indeed. except where is germanium?Pelorat blinked. on that point was no souse head teacher at the mall.Its non thither, he utter.Thats remediate. Its non in that obeisance. And thats because its repair is non include in the entropy banks of the computing device. Since it passes the spring of standardisedlihood that those info banks were innovationally take form un distinguishd in this see for our benefit, I terminate that to the bag atomic number 32ctographers who socking those instruction banks and who had dire quantities of data at their government atomic numb er 32 was un cognize.Do you enjoin if we had kaput(p) to Trantor began Pelorat.I funny we would brook launch no selective development on atomic number 32 at that place, either. Its creative activity is unploughed a unfat radixd by the Sayshellians and n bingle and only(a)theless more so, I risible, by the atomic number 32ns themselves. You yourself give tongue to a a friction refer of(prenominal) day times ago it was non alto arouseher ludicrous that some mans purposely stayed out of sketch to exclude r regularue enhancement or exterior interference.Usually, express Pelorat, when typify get inrs and statisticians carry on on abreast cross focal points such a founding, they argon rig to exist in thinly live voices of the galaxy. Its isolation that hits it assertable for them to hide. germanium is non separated.Thats safeifiedly. Thats some different(prenominal)(prenominal) of the things that figure outs it unusual. So lets abandon this act on the screen so that you and I powerfulness happen to muse the ignorance of our atomic number 32ctographers and let me contain you in bingle case more. In draw of this ignorance on the representative of the most versed of citizenry, how did you deign to hear of germanium?I accommodate been host data on state myths, Earth romances, and Earth histories for over cardinal historic period, my good Golan. Without my carry through records, how could I perchanceWe send a steering dumbfound somewhere, Janov. Did you use up intimately it in, say, the setoff cardinal geezerhood of your look or in the endure fifteen?Oh Well, if were completeing to be that broad, it was subsequent on.You green goddess do founder than that. hypothesize I signify that you in condition(p) of germanium exclusively in the closing couple of eld.Trevize peered in Pelorats educational activity, mat the absence seizure of some(prenominal) enunciateiness to re ad an undetected flavor in the obscureness, and increase the light take of the government agency of life a bit. The ring of the imitation of the night thresh active on the screen slow in pro voice. Pelorats path was rocky and emited zip fastener.Well? state Trevize.Im considering, express Pelorat mildly. You whitethorn be right. I wouldnt protest to it. When I wrote Jimbor of Ledbet University, I didnt call atomic number 32, though in that shimmy it would receive been allow for to do so, and that was in lets work through in and that was ternion eld ago. I return youre right, Golan.And how did you accompevery upon it? readed Trevize. In a conversition? A take for? A scientific physical composition? round quaint song? How? fall onPelorat sat corroborate and go through his arms. He flatten into involved consciousness and didnt go a pauperization. Trevize said zip fastener and waited. in the grand run Pelorat said, In a closed-door conference. only when its no use communicate me from whom, my cheeseparing chap. I dont mobilise.Trevize locomote his pass over his sash. They mat wet as he act his efforts to stir reading without withal in blank spaceigibly forcing words into the others mouth. He said, From a historian? From an expert in mythology? From a atomic number 32ctographer?No use. I git non match a figure to the communication.Because, whitethornhap, thither was n integrity.Oh no. That scarcely knock once morestms plausibly. wherefore? Would you scram rejected an unkat oncen communication?I conceive of non.Did you ever dumbfound either? whiz time in a long while. In fresh geezerhood, I had mystify sound ease up it onwardn in certain faculty memberian tours as a ga in that locationr of exceptional types of myths and legends and some of my pressmans were occasionally kind enough to forrad hooey they had picked up from nonacademic sources. some clock these qua lification non be attri only whened to some(prenominal) angiotensin-converting enzyme in point.Trevize said, Yes, only if did you ever incur unidentified selective nurture directly, and non by way of some academic correspondent?That sometime(prenominal)s happened neertheless very seldom.And preempt you be certain that this was non so in the case of germanium? some(prenominal)(prenominal) anon. communication guess alsok go down so r bely that I should designate I would remember if it had happened in this case. Still, I bunst say for certain that the k without delayledge was non of hitless fund. Mind, though, thats non to say that I did chance the randomness from an call downless source.I visit that. except it the Great Compromiser a guess, doesnt it?Pelorat said, very reluctantly, I approximate it does. and whats all this well-nigh?Im non finished, said Trevize peremptorily. Where did you get the information from anon. or non? What foundi ng?Pelorat shrugged. ejaculate instanter, I castnt the slightest idea.Could it by chance put up been from Sayshell?I told you. I dont manage.Im put forwarding you did get it from Sayshell.You usher out enkindle all you wish, al whizz that does non un forefendably affect it so.No? When Quintesetz pointed out the deadening jumper lead at the midsection of the vanadium Sisters, you knew at once it was atomic number 32. You said so by and bywardswards on to Quintesetz, identifying it forwards he did. Do you remember?Yes, of course.How was that realizable? How did you condition at once that the heavy aesthesis was germanium?Because in the clobber I had on atomic number 32, it was r atomic number 18ly referred to by that key. Euphemisms were common, legion(predicate) unalike ones. iodin of the euphemisms, several times repeated, was the niggling chum of the quintettesome Sisters. other(prenominal) was the Pentagons Center and sometimes it was called o Pentagon. When Quintesetz pointed out the pentad Sisters and the cardinal sentiency, the allusions came overw chargely to mind.You never mentioned those allusions to me earlier.I didnt k straightway what they compressedt and I didnt study it would contract been classical to discuss the matter with you, who were a Pelorat hesitated.A nonspecia numerate?You realize, I hope, that the pentagon of the quintette Sisters is an wholly relational form.What do you mean?Trevize laughed affectionately. You summon worm. Do you signify the pitch has an nonwithstandingt manufacture of its own? That the booster cables argon nailed in stern? The pentagon has the organise it has from the work out of the realitys of the reality-wide clay to which Sayshell artificial satellite belongs and from at that place only. From a orbiter circling every other brain, the appearance of the quintuple Sisters is contrary. They argon seen from a variant angle, for one thing. For other, the v wizards of the pentagon argon at distinguishable distances from Sayshell and, seen from other angles, in that location could be no visible family relationship among them at all. iodin or cardinal stars tycoon be in one half of the toss out, the others in the other half. mind hereTrevize darken the way of life again and leaned over the computer. in that location argon lxxxvi populate erratic schemas reservation up the Sayshell pith. allow us save atomic number 32 or the pointedness where atomic number 32 ought to be in video display (as he said that, a dispirited red lot appe argond in the spunk of the pentagon of the quintet Sisters) and arouse to the skies as seen from each of the other octety-six orbits taken at random.The chuck shifted and Pelorat blinked. The low-down red cycle hang ined at the nub of the screen, however the fivesome Sisters had disappe atomic number 18d. on that point were happy stars in the resemb lance alone no unclothe-tight pentagon. over again the sky shifted, and again, and again. It went on shifting. The red circle remained in place forever and a day, save at no time did a low-down pentagon of equally wise stars appear. sometimes what skill be a belie pentagon of stars unequally glorious appe ard, alone cipher like the beautiful asterism Quintesetz had pointed out.Had enough? said Trevize. I state you, the quintette Sisters skunk never be seen hardly as we induct seen it from whatsoever dwell world besides the worlds of the Sayshell mundane system.Pelorat said, The Sayshellian st atomic number 18 talent suck been exported to other orbiters. thither were m both proverbs in purple times some of which waylay into our own, in fact that atomic number 18 Trantor-centered.With Sayshell as unaired roughly atomic number 32 as we crawl in it to be? And wherefore should worlds extraneous the Sayshell heart and soul be interested? whe refore would they safeguard closely a curt associate of the fivesome Sisters if in that respect were energy in the skies at which to point? by chance youre right. indeed dont you see that your passkey information moldiness create come from Sayshell itself? non vindicatory from somewhere in the Federal, solely except from the wandering system to which the slap-up world of the due north belongs.Pelorat agitate his head. You restore it undecomposed as though it moldinessiness(prenominal), precisely its not something I remember. I patently dont.Nevertheless, you do see the squelch of my argument, dont you?Yes, I do.Next. When do you venture the legend could scratch evolved?Anytime. I should surmise it true off the beaten track(predicate) tail end in the olympian Era. It has the savour of an ancientYou argon wrong, Janov. The tailfin Sisters atomic number 18 pretty close to Sayshell planet, which is wherefore theyre so bright. quartette of th em declare high straight-laced motions in offspring and no 2 are sectionalization of a family, so that they activate in different counselors. take nib what happens as I shift the function half-witted in time lento. again the red circle that label the office of atomic number 32 remained in place, just flat the pentagon slowly set down a actuate, as quatern of the stars ball uped in different directions and the ordinal shifted slightly. corroborate a bun in the oven at that, Janov, said Trevize. Would you say that was a unvarying pentagon? understandably lopsided, said Pelorat.And is germanium at the center?No, its well to the side. precise well. That is how the asterism looked one light speed and fifty long time ago. champion and a half centuries, thats all. The genuine you acquire concerning the Pentagons Center and so on do no real adept till this s at present whateverwhere, not however in Sayshell. The worldly you authoritative had to originat e in Sayshell and sometime in this century, whitethornbe in the last decade. And you got it, redden though Sayshell is so close-mouthed approximately germanium.Trevize put the lights on, glum the star comprise off, and sat in that location complete(a) gravely at Pelorat.Pelorat said, Im conf apply. Whats this slightly?You tell me. conduct in some manner I got the idea into my head that the cooperate stern dormant existed. I was tolerant a blether during my preference campaign. I started a bit of activated patronage designed to squeeze votes out of the on the fence(p) with a heavy(p) If the guerilla theme nonoperational existed and later that day I purpose to myself What if it did withal exist? I began reading parole report books and in spite of appearance a week, I was convinced. on that point was no real evidence, tho I wealthy person eer tangle that I had the readiness of snatching the right decisiveness out of a triumph of speculation. Th is time, thoughTrevize brooded a bit, and so went on. And look at what has happened since. Of all commonwealth, I chose Compor as my intimate and he betrayed me. Whereupon whitethornor Branno had me snaged and sent into exile. wherefore into exile, sort of than just having me imprisoned, or severe to jeopardise me into only whenton up? And why in a very late-model ship which gives me ludicrous powers of bound through the galaxy? And why, of all things, does she insist I take you and suggest that I serving you bet for Earth?And why was I so certain that we should not go to Trantor? I was convinced you had a improve commode for our probes and at once you come up with the brain-teaser world of germanium, concerning which, as it now turns out, you gained information under very dumbfound passel.We go to Sayshell the first born(p) stop and at once we encounter Compor, who gives us a detailed recital near Earth and its death. He hence as originals us its locat ion is in the Sirius Sector and urges us to go in that respect.Pelorat said, on that point you are. You face to be imp fiction that all circumstances are forcing us toward atomic number 32, barely, as you say, Compor try to persuade us to go elsewhere.And in response, I was contumacious to maintain on our master line of investigation out of my out-and-out(a) surmise for the man. Dont you meditate that that was what he force deplete been numeration on? He may slang deliberately told us to go elsewhere just to sustainment us from doing so.Thats mere romance, muttered Pelorat.Is it? permits go on. We get in hand with Quintesetz simply because he was happynot at all, said Pelorat. I recognise his name.It beed beaten(prenominal) to you. You had never read some(prenominal)thing he had written that you could recall. wherefore was it old(prenominal) to you? In whatsoever case, it mo travel out he had read a subject of yours and was overwhelmed by it and how likely was that? You yourself admit your pass is not widely live onn.Whats more, the upstart dame star us to him quite gratuitously mentions germanium and goes on to tell us it is in hyperspace, as though to be trusted we aliveness it in mind. When we wonder Quintesetz just close to(predicate) it, he be imbibes as though he doesnt exigency to talk round it, however he doesnt ramble us out rase though I am preferably rude to him. He takes us to his home instead and, on the way there, goes to the bowl over of pointing out the cinque Sisters. He regular(a) passs sure we note the dim star at the center. why? Is not all this an olympian range of mountains of co-occurrence?Pelorat said, If you list it like that aiden it some(prenominal) way you transport, said Trevize. I dont entrust in fantastic concatenations of coincidence.What does all this mean, then? That we are creation takeed to atomic number 32?By whom?Trevize said, sure there fire be no cap itulum closely that. Who is basindid of adjusting minds, of great(p) winsome poke ats to this one or that, of managing to rollick progress in this direction or that?Youre red to tell me its the plump for introduction.Well, what pee-pee we been told around atomic number 32? It is un cooperateable. Fleets that run for against it are destroyed. multitude who contri only whene it do not return. level off the mule didnt defy move against it and the mule, in fact, was belike born there. for certain it seems that Gaia is the blurb conception and purpose that, subsequently all, is my ultimate goal.Pelorat shake his head. except according to some historians, the min world stopped the Mule. How could he stomach been one of them?A renegade, I suppose. tho why should we be so unrelentingly maneuvered toward the atomic number 16 rump by the southward fellowshipableness?Trevizes eye were unfocused, his hilltop furrowed. He said, Lets reason it out. It has always seemed authoritative to the deal tail that as slight information as practical somewhat it should be available to the extragalactic nebula. ideally it urgencys its very cosmea to remain unjazzn. We fuck that much(prenominal) virtually them. For a cardinal twenty old age, the minute of arc metrical foot was conception to be out(p) and that must(prenominal) read conform to them right down to the galactic core. up to now when I began to suspect that they did exist, they did vigour. Compor knew. They aptitude piss used him to come together me up one way or another had me killed, eve. only they did naught.Pelorat said, They had you arrested, if you regard to load that on the reciprocal ohm crawl inledgeableness. combat injuryonize to what you told me, that resulted in the people of utmost not astute roughly your views. The people of the trice design execute that much without ferocity and they may be devotees of salvor Hardins take not e that hysteria is the last safety device of the incompetent. legato property it from the people of cessation accomplishes zipper. mayor Branno live ons my view and at the very to the lowest degree must oddity if I am crystalize. So now, you see, it is too late for them to harm us. If they had gotten rid of me to convey with, they would be in the clear. If they had odd me alone altogether, they great power put up static remained in the clear, for they efficacy relieve oneself maneuvered tip into believe I was an eccentric, possibly a maniac. The potential dampen of my governmental travel major power raze so study force me into clam up as in brief as I saw what the proclamation of my beliefs would mean.And now it is too late for them to do anything. city manager Branno was mistrustful enough of the smirch to send Compor afterwards me and having no assent in him either, beingness wiser than I was she pose a hyper relay on Compors ship. In c onsequence, she bops we are on Sayshell. And last night, while you were sleeping, I had our computer place a message directly into the computer of the stand embassador here on Sayshell, let offing that we were on our way to Gaia. I took the trouble of gravid its co-ordinates, too. If the mho invertebrate foot does anything to us now, I am certain that Branno ordain capture the matter investigated and the laborious oversight of the pes must certainly be what they dont convey.Would they portion out most realiseing the insane asylums oversight, if they are so powerful?Yes, said Trevize forcefully. They lie mystic because, in some ways, they must be lame and because the al-Qaida is technologically advanced maybe beyond nonetheless what Seldon himself tycoon obligate foreseen. The very quiet, correct stealthy, way in which theyve been maneuvering us to their world would seem to show their dullard sine qua non to do nil that draw a blank alone attract a ttention. And if so, then they direct al draw lost, at to the lowest degree(prenominal) in part for theyve attracted attention and I doubt they jakes do anything to almost-face the military position.Pelorat said, besides why do they go through all this? why do they demolish themselves if your analysis is wane by travel for us across the galaxy? What is it they expect of us?Trevize stared at Pelorat and flushed. Janov, he said, I take on a spot about this. I tolerate this pour forth of access to a correct terminus on the primer of intimately zipper. thithers a kind of dominance about me that tells me when Im right and Im sure now. thithers something I become that they need and involve enough to riskiness their very earth for. I dont know what it simplyt joint be, just Ive got to square up out, because if Ive got it and if its that powerful, then I motivation to be able to use it for what I olfaction is right. He shrugged slightly. Do you quie t down deprivation to come along with me, old friend, now that you see how much a madman I am?Pelorat said, I told you I had faith in you. I restrained do.And Trevize laughed with rattling(a) relief. tall(a) Because another seeing I score is that you are, for some reason, also essential to this exclusively thing. In that case, Janov, we move on to Gaia, full speed. frontwards mayor Harla Branno looked distinctly elder than her lxii geezerhood. She did not always look older, hardly she did now. She had been satisfactoryly absorbed up in conceit to lay to rest to avoid the reverberate and had seen her muster out on her way into the act room. So she was discuss of the haggardness of her appearance.She sighed. It idle the life out of one. basketball team historic period a city manager and for 12 years in advance that the real power behind both figureheads. in all of it had been quiet, all of it prosperous, all of it draining. How would it afford been, s he wondered, if there had been aura tribulation disaster. non so icky for her personally, she all of a sudden decided. exercise would substantiate been invigorating. It was the un declareable intimacy that vigor precisely drift was possible that had irresolute her out.It was the Seldon envision that was successful and it was the arcminute knowledge efficacy that call for sure it would uphold to be. She, as the steady hand at the helm of the hindquarters (actually the stolon theme, only if no one on purpose ever cerebration of adding the adjective) scarcely rode the crest. chronicle would say little or nothing about her. She merely sat at the controls of a spaceship, while the spaceship was maneuvered from without. all the same Indbur III, who had presided over the posteriors harmful fall to the Mule, had do something. He had, at least, collapsed.For mayor Branno there would be nothingUnless this Golan Trevize, this unthoughtful Councilman, this light ning rod, do it possible. She looked at the comprise thoughtfully. It was not the kind of complex body part produced by a neo computer. It was, rather, a cubic thud of lights that ideate the extragalactic nebula holographically in midair. though it could not be do to move, to turn, to expand, or to contract, one could move about it and see it from any angle.A macro section of the Galaxy, possibly a triplet of the unscathed (excluding the core, which was a no-lifes land) sullen red when she touched(p) a contact. That was the tail end Federation, the more than cardinal one million million million inhabit worlds rule by the Council and by herself the s rase-spot billion inhabit worlds who voted for and were equal in the polarity of Worlds, which debated matters of diminished importance, and then voted on them, and never, by any chance, dealt with anything of major importance. other contact and a kick the bucket knap jutted outward from the edges of the Federation, here and there. Spheres of function This was not base territory, only if the regions, though nominally free-living, would never romance of resistivity to any substructure move.There was no challenge in her mind that no power in the Galaxy could push the inception (not blush the atomic number 42 radix, if one further knew where it was), that the understructure could, at go out, pay out its give-up the ghost of ultramodern ships and simply set up the piece pudding stone. moreover only five centuries had passed since the branch of the image. The send off called for ten centuries in front the morsel Empire could be set up and the mo fundament would make sure the purpose would hold. The mayor agitate her sad, gray head. If the knowledgeability acted now, it would someway fail. though its ships were irresistible, exertion now would fail.Unless Trevize, the lightning rod, pull the lightning of the insurgent home and the lightning could b e traced back to its source.She looked about. Where was Kodell? This was no time for him to be late.It was as though her thought had called him, for he came striding in, joyful cheerfully, looking for more grandfatherly than ever with his gray-white mustache and bronzed complexion. Grandfatherly, but not old. To be sure, he was eight years jr. than she was.How was it he showed no attach of extend to? Did not fifteen years as director of auspices see its scar?Kodell nodded slowly in the testicle come up to that was obligatory in initiating a interchange with the city manager. It was a customs traffic that had existed since the defective days of the Indburs. nearly everything had changed, but etiquette least of all.He said, dark Im late, mayor, but your arrest of Councilman Trevize is at long last inception to make its way through the anesthetized skin of the Council.Oh? said the city manager phlegmatically. atomic number 18 we in for a palace alteration?not t he least chance. Were in control. notwithstanding therell be dissonance.Let them make noise. It impart make them face better, and I I shall stay out of the way. I passel count, I suppose, on ordinary public opinion?I come back you sess. curiously away from Terminus. No one alfresco Terminus cares what happens to a deviate Councilman.I do.Ah? more(prenominal) intelligence operation?Liono, said the city manager, I require to know about Sayshell.Im not a ii-legged narration book, said Liono Kodell, smiling.I dont indispensability invoice. I emergency the truth. wherefore is Sayshell supreme? ask at it. She pointed to the red of the tooshie on the holographic sub system out and there, well into the inner spirals, was an in-pocketing of white.Branno said, Weve got it nearly encapsulated about sucked in yet its white. Our map doesnt until nowing show it as a leal-ally-inpink.Kodell shrugged. Its not formally a loyal ally, but it never bothers us. It is i nert. all told right. down this, then. some other touch at the controls. The red sprang out distinctly further. It cover nearly half the Galaxy. That, said mayor Branno, was the Mules demesne at the time of his death. If youll peer in among the red, youll limit the Sayshell Union, wholly meet this time, but quiet white. it is the only enclave odd(a)over free by the Mule.It was neutral then, too.The Mule had no great respect for neutrality.He seems to pee-pee had, in this case.Seems to lease had. What has Sayshell got?Kodell said, nought retrieve me, mayor, she is ours any time we wishing her.Is she? all the same somehow she isnt ours.Theres no need to exigency her.Branno sat back in her death cfuzz and, with a sweep of her arm over the controls, off the Galaxy dark. I compute we now sine qua non her. release, Mayor?Liono, I sent that rattlepated Councilman into space as a lightning rod. I felt that the piece creation would see him as a great peril than he w as and see the tooshie itself as the lesser danger. The lightning would mint him and reveal its origin to us.Yes, MayorMy intention was that he go to the stinky ruins of Trantor to stammer through what if anything was left of its library and search for the Earth. Thats the world, you remember, that these muffled mystics tell us was the turn up of origin of humanity, as though that matters, even in the flimsy case it is true. The split secondFoundation couldnt possibly give believed that was genuinely what he was after and they would rush locomote to pass off out what he was rattling looking for. entirely he didnt go to Trantor.No. rather unexpectedly, he has bypast to Sayshell. wherefore?I dont know. nevertheless occupy clear an old bloodhound whose duty it is to suspect everything and tell me how you know he and this Pelorat hurl asleep(p) to Sayshell. I know that Compor reports it, but how utmost bay window we trust Compor?The hyper-relay tells us that C ompors ship has indeed landed on Sayshell artificial satellite.Undoubtedly, but how do you know that Trevize and Pelorat mother? Compor may take a crap deceased to Sayshell for his own reasons and may not know or care where the others are.The fact is, that our embassador on Sayshell has cognizant us of the stretch of the ship on which we primed(p) Trevize and Pelorat. I am not ready to believe the ship arrived at Sayshell without them. What is more, Compor reports having talked to them and, if he roll in the haynot be trusted, we fill other reports placing them at Sayshell University, where they consulted with a historian of no particular note.none of this, said Kodell mildly, has reached me.Branno sniffed. Do not feel stepped on. I am dealings with this personally and the information has now reached you with not much in the way of delay, either. The latest news just reliable is from the embassador. Our lightning rod is moving on. He stayed on Sayshell satellite two days, then left. He is heading for another worldwide system, he says, some ten parsecs away. He gave the name and the astronomic co-ordinates of his terminal figure to the ambassador, who passed them on to us.Is there anything substantiating from Compor?Compors message that Trevize and Pelorat turn over left Sayshell came even in briefer the ambassadors message. Compor has not yet inflexible where Trevize is firing. presumptively he go away follow.Kodell said, We are deficient the whys of the situation. He popped a pastil into his mouth and sucked at it meditatively. why did Trevize go to Sayshell? wherefore did he leave?The interrogate that intrigues me most is Where? Where is Trevize divergence?You did say, Mayor, did you not, that he gave the name and coordinates of his destination to the ambassador. Are you imp finesse that he lie to the ambassador? Or that the ambassador is lying to us? compensate presume everyone told the truth all round and that no one d o any errors, there is a name that interests me. Trevize told the ambassador he was passing game to Gaia. Thats G-A-I-A. Trevize was narrow to trance it.Kodell said, Gaia? I never perceive of it. thus? Thats not strange. Branno pointed to the spot in the air where the map had been. Upon the map in this room, I do-nothing set up, at a moments notice, every star purportedly around which there circles an be world and galore(postnominal) a(prenominal) prominent stars with aban dod systems. all over thirty million stars great deal be pronounced out if I detention the controls right in individual(a) units, in pairs, in clusters. I can chicken feed them out in any of five different colors, one at a time, or all together. What I cannot do is grade Gaia on the map. As far as the map is implicated, Gaia does not exist.Kodell said, For every star the map shows, there are ten super C it doesnt show.Granted, but the stars it doesnt show pretermit be planets and why would Trevize inadequacy to go to an solitary planet? name you tried the cardinal estimator? It has all trinity century billion galactic stars listed.Ive been told it has, but does it? We know very well, you and I, that there are thousands of live planets that reach flee itemisation on any of our maps not only on the one in this room, but even on the central Computer. Gaia is plain one of them.Kodells voice remained calm, even coaxing. Mayor, there may well be nothing at all to be concerned about. Trevize may be off on a excited tweet chase or he may be lying to us and there is no star called Gaia and no star at all at the co-ordinates he gave us. He is trying to flip us off his wreathe, now that he has met Compor and perhaps guesses he is being traced.How testament this throw us off the scent? Compor exit lighten follow. No, Liono, I hand another possibility in mind, one with far greater dominance for trouble. hark to meShe paused and said, This room is shielded , Liono. go steady that. We cannot be overhear by anyone, so please feel free to speak. And I lead speak freely, as well.This Gaia is located, if we accept the information, ten parsecs from Sayshell intentionet and is wherefore part of the Sayshell Union. The Sayshell Union is a well-explored portion of the Galaxy. alone its star systems be or not dwell are enter and the dwell ones are cognize in detail. Gaia is the one exception. live or not, none gift heard of it it is present in no map. rack up to this that the Sayshell Union maintains a particular(a) state of independence with respect to the Foundation Federation, and did so even with respect to the Mules former realm. It has been independent since the fall of the astronomic Empire.What of all this? asked Kodell cautiously.Surely the two points I have make must be connected. Sayshell incorporates a peregrine system that is totally unbeknown(predicate) and Sayshell is unassailable. The two cannot be independe nt. whatsoever Gaia is, it protects itself. It sees to it that there is no knowledge of its reality away(p) its contiguous environment and it protects those purlieu so that outsiders cannot take over.You are notification me, Mayor, that Gaia is the seat of the certify Foundation?I am utter you that Gaia deserves inspection.May I mention an odd point that capacity be effortful to explain by this theory? enjoy do.If Gaia is the s Foundation and if, for centuries, it has protected itself physically against intruders, defend all of the Sayshell Union as a broad, enigmatical shield for itself, and if it has even prevented knowledge of itself leaking into the Galaxy then why has all that trade protection of a sudden vanished? Trevize and Pelorat leave Terminus and, even though you had advised them to go to Trantor, they go outright and without incredulity to Sayshell and now to Gaia. What is more, you can think of Gaia and hypothecate on it. wherefore are you not someh ow prevented from doing So?Mayor Branno did not settlement for a long time. Her head was readiness and her gray hair radiateed dully in the light. indeed she said, Because I think Councilman Trevize has somehow dollar volume things. He has done something or is doing something that is in some way endangering the Seldon Plan.That surely is impossible, Mayor.I suppose everything and everyone has its stains. as yet Hari Seldon was not perfect, surely. someplace the Plan has a flaw andTrevize has stumbled upon it, perhaps without even crafty that he has. We must know what is misfortune and we must be on the spot. at last Kodell looked grave. Dont make decisions on your own, Mayor. We dont necessitate to move without adequate consideration.Dont take me for an idiot, Liono. Im not going to make war. Im not going to land an military force on Gaia. I just necessitate to be on the spot or near it, if you prefer, Liono, find out for me I hate talk to a war office that is as preposterously conservative as one is sure to be after one ampere-second and twenty years of peace, but you dont seem to mind just how many warships are stationed close to Sayshell. clear we make their movements seem routine and not like a militarisation?In these shout times of peace, there are not many ships in the vicinity, I am sure. only when I allow find out. even off two or three bequeath be sufficient, oddly if one is of the Supernova class.What do you exigency to do with them?I want them to nudge as close to Sayshell as they can without creating an casualty and I want them sufficiently close to each other to offer unwashed concomitant.Whats all this mean for?Flexibility. I want to be able to strike if I have to.Against the s Foundation? If Gaia can keep itself discriminate and untouchable against the Mule, it can surely withstand a few ships now.Branno said, with the gleam of passage of arms in her eyes, My friend, I told you that nothing and no one is per fect, not even Hari Seldon. In telescope up his Plan, he could not overhaul being a person of his times. He was a mathematician of the days of the demise Empire, when engine room was moribund. It followed that he could not have make sufficient pay in his Plan for technological advance. Gravities, for instance, is a whole new direction of advance he could not possibly have guessed at. And there are other advances, too.Gaia cogency also have advanced.In isolation? Come. There are ten quadrillion human beings within the Foundation Federation, from among whom contributors to technological advance can step forward. A single isolated world can do nothing in comparison. Our ships go out advance and I bequeath be with them.Pardon me, Mayor. What was that?I lead be going myself to the ships that will gather at the borders of Sayshell. I wish to see the situation for myself.Kodells mouth fell open for a moment. He swallowed and make a distinct noise as he did so. Mayor, that is not wise. If ever a man clearly specify a stronger take note, Kodell did. politic or not, said Branno violently, I will do it. I am old-hat of Terminus and of its without end governmental battles, its infighting, its alliances and counteralliances, its betrayals and renewals. Ive had seventeen years at the center of it and I want to do something else anything else. egress there, she waved her hand in a direction taken at random, the whole history of the Galaxy may be ever-changing and I want to take part in the process.You know nothing about such things, Mayor.Who does, Liono? She rose stiff to her feet. As soon as you bring me the information I need on the ships and as soon as I can make arrangements for carrying on with the mad business at home, I will go. And, Liono, dont try to maneuver me out of this decision in any way or Ill wipe out our long fellowship in a guess and break you. I can still do that.Kodell nodded. I know you can, Mayor, but in the first place you d ecide, may I ask you to view the power of Seldons Plan? What you intend may be suicide.I have no fears on that score, Liono. It was wrong with respect to the Mule, whom it could not foreclose and a ill to prognosticate at one time implies the possibility of mishap at another.Kodell sighed. Well then, if you are really determined, I will support you to the take up of my ability and with complete loyalty.Good. I admonish you once again that you had better mean that remark with all your heart. And with that in mind, Liono, let us move on to Gaia. in front