Galactic empire

His Encyclopedia Galactica is, it's kind of a distraction, right? But its true purpose is only known to those who make up the foundation, this sort of secret society of scientism, if you will.

The-- He knows that, in other words, that the Galactic Empire is going to collapse, and Seldon thinks that through psychohistory or this mass, uh, tracking algorithm, he can actually stave off the long-term collapse of the civilization, um, before the rise of the Second Galactic Empire.

So Seldon's breakaway civilization is based on scientism, which is interesting because if we think about the B- Bavarian Illuminati, we tend to-- There's this mythology that they were, like, into Satanism and the occult.

That's actually not true at all.

honestly.

Also coming in tonight, she gets the idealist, the visionaries, the tragic destinies, and enough emotional weight to collapse a galactic empire.

When a story asks whether people can change the future, she is already invested.

It's the great Narduzzi, Heather Narduzzi.

That's pretty cool.

Yeah.

think so um yeah and like and of course yeah so it says here based on the novels by isaac asimov and goyer and friedman the two you know co-creators uh of the of the series um as we get our title card foundation you know here we go um so yeah this first episode written by david s goyer and josh friedman directed by rupert sanders so uh we start off here with the narration of gail dornick um telling us you know about when about her her childhood learning about the galactic empire um you know that there's that this is a vast world and galaxy um you know and and then we're kind of introduced to terminus this frozen rock world which is where the foundation will be established It's kind of this narration is teasing what this world is.

We even see some of the alien wildlife kind of pop out here in the first few minutes of the show.

Sex and atom bombs and everything.

Remember, Broek smiled, these people are the forebearers of the geniuses who created Center and the Galactic Empire.

They'll survive, despite their barbarism.

The existence of Center is proof.

Okay, tell me more about that.

Well, instead of having a character deliver a five-minute monologue about how oppressive the Galactic Empire is, Villeneuve uses brutalist architecture.

Oh, wow.

He fills the screen with massive featureless geometric slabs of concrete and metal, and he frames the human characters as tiny, insignificant specks against these structures.

It is a story I believe he is telling in seven acts.

They are currently in the middle of Act 5. we are reading act one, which tells the story of the, uh, second Spanish empire, a galactic empire that is finding out that they're going to end up in a war with the continuum of makers because long ago and far away, one of the ships crashed on earth.

And, uh, one of the, one of the, um, Oh, I forget what the family name is.

Uh, but he found this, this drive ship that allows you to go at, you know, sublight speeds.

And so you've got this long lineage of people from the president all the way down to one of the crew members of, uh, of, uh, the ship.

Who's just like the drive engineer.

Who's 14 years old, who is like in line to become president of the, of the, of the galactic empire at some point.

And so I I'm curious what you think about that as a kind of a, a driving force for what makes this, this empire work or not work where it's literally so compartmentalized that only direct descendants and family members have access to this.

Either action would make the natives hate and fear Terrans, a hatred and fear that would be there to greet all future Terran ships.

That was not the way a race gave birth to the peaceful Galactic Empire, was not the purpose behind the plan, but always, wherever the exploration men went, they encountered the deadly barrier, the intangible, unassailable communication barrier.

With the weapons an exploration man carried in his ship, he had the power to destroy a world, but not the power to ask the simple questions that would prevent fatal misunderstandings.

And before another three years had passed, the last exploration man would die.

I wanted to talk about James Rank, and I wanted to, like, pass the word that, you know, stuff happens to like good people you

know don't they believe in the galactic empire they linked all together with the supers like they go to other planets well

James was the most have you ever had like a conversation with him like I know a lady she's an elderly lady that lives right here down the road And she was friends with James Rink as well.

And because of her, she's a UFO experiencer from way back in the days.

One of the most just amazing, you know, the life of the party, just kind to everyone, just a beautiful soul.

That is awesome.

But is this a Galactic Empire thing? I mean, where they go off planet and do things? Well, there's

a lot of them, too, that have come forward saying all this stuff.

The alien's narration resumes.

We, the descendants of the Krell, determined it was our duty to rebuild the Galactic Empire, to seek out the lost worlds, to return a semblance of sanity to a universe gone mad.

Under our leader, Oregon, we left our home planet 200 of your solar years ago.

Our 500-year mission to explore new worlds, contact old civilizations, to boldly go where no krail had gone before.