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Search by the Foundation, Part Two

Written: 1949
Published: 1950
18 300 words
Date: 378 F.E.

1
BEGINNING OF WAR
The war begins; Toran Darell has Semic build a mind-static device as a
protection against the Second Foundation; Darell and Pelleas Anthor
debate how best to fight the Second Foundation (3300)

2
WAR
The hopeless strategic situation of the Foundation versus Kalgan;
Stettin's confidence in victory despite Meirus' pessimism (1000)

3
GHOST OF A WORLD
Arcadia Darell on Trantor, now only an agricultural world; She
persuades Preem Palver to go on an agricultural mission to the
Foundation and to send her father an important but apparently
meaningless message (2200)

4
END OF WAR
Battle of Quoriston; Jole Turbor as war correspondant; Confidence of
the Foundation; Preem Palver captured by the Foundation Fleet; Victory
of the Foundation Fleet; Preem Palver on Terminus, where he delivers
Arcadia's puzzling message; Lord Stettin in despair at his defeat; Munn
returns to Terminus as his envoy (2900)

5
"I KNOW..."
Homir Munn as Mediator Extraordinary; His new-found self-confidence,
and knowledge concerning the Second Foundation: Dr Darell, Munn,
Turbor, Anthor and Semic meet again; Munn asserts the Second Foundation
doesn't exist; Munn proved to be controlled by the Second Foundation;
Anthor's theory that Kalgan is the Second Foundation; Darell reveals
his invention of a mind static device as a defense against the Second
Foundation; He announces he knows where the Second Foundation really is
(4200)

6
THE ANSWER THAT SATISFIED
Darell's theory that the Second Foundation is on Terminus itself; He
turns on the mind static device, Pelleas Anthor collapses and is proved
to be a Second Foundationer; Arcadea returns home and Dr Darell takes
her encephalogram to satisfy himself she has not been controlled, and
her theory is true that the Second Foundation is on Terminus (3100)

7
THE ANSWER THAT WAS TRUE
The First Speaker explains to a student how the Second Foundation has
convinced the Foundation that the Second Foundation has always been on
Terminus; Arcadia controlled since infancy; Fifty martyrs sacrificed to
convince the Foundation that the Second Foundation is on Terminus; The
Second Foundation revealed to be on Trantor (1700)


The novel drags its slow length to the interesting conclusion that
Trantor is _still_ the real seat of supreme power in the universe.
This is somewhat analogous to the role of the Papacy in perpetuating
the Roman bureaucracy and culture.

I hope this outline proves useful. Others are free to add to it as they
like and repost a fuller summary of this great novel.

virgiliopoeta wrote:

> Search by the Foundation, Part Two
>
> Written: 1949
> Published: 1950
> 18 300 words
> Date: 378 F.E.
>
> 1
> BEGINNING OF WAR
> The war begins; Toran Darell has Semic build a mind-static device as a
> protection against the Second Foundation; Darell and Pelleas Anthor
> debate how best to fight the Second Foundation (3300)
>
> 2
> WAR
> The hopeless strategic situation of the Foundation versus Kalgan;
> Stettin's confidence in victory despite Meirus' pessimism (1000)
>
> 3
> GHOST OF A WORLD
> Arcadia Darell on Trantor, now only an agricultural world; She
> persuades Preem Palver to go on an agricultural mission to the
> Foundation and to send her father an important but apparently
> meaningless message (2200)
>
> 4
> END OF WAR
> Battle of Quoriston; Jole Turbor as war correspondant; Confidence of
> the Foundation; Preem Palver captured by the Foundation Fleet; Victory
> of the Foundation Fleet; Preem Palver on Terminus, where he delivers
> Arcadia's puzzling message; Lord Stettin in despair at his defeat; Munn
> returns to Terminus as his envoy (2900)
>
> 5
> "I KNOW..."
> Homir Munn as Mediator Extraordinary; His new-found self-confidence,
> and knowledge concerning the Second Foundation: Dr Darell, Munn,
> Turbor, Anthor and Semic meet again; Munn asserts the Second Foundation
> doesn't exist; Munn proved to be controlled by the Second Foundation;
> Anthor's theory that Kalgan is the Second Foundation; Darell reveals
> his invention of a mind static device as a defense against the Second
> Foundation; He announces he knows where the Second Foundation really is
> (4200)
>
> 6
> THE ANSWER THAT SATISFIED
> Darell's theory that the Second Foundation is on Terminus itself; He
> turns on the mind static device, Pelleas Anthor collapses and is proved
> to be a Second Foundationer; Arcadea returns home and Dr Darell takes
> her encephalogram to satisfy himself she has not been controlled, and
> her theory is true that the Second Foundation is on Terminus (3100)
>
> 7
> THE ANSWER THAT WAS TRUE
> The First Speaker explains to a student how the Second Foundation has
> convinced the Foundation that the Second Foundation has always been on
> Terminus; Arcadia controlled since infancy; Fifty martyrs sacrificed to
> convince the Foundation that the Second Foundation is on Terminus; The
> Second Foundation revealed to be on Trantor (1700)

Will you now post outlines of Foundation's Edge and the other Foundation
novels?