Who's Who in Asimov F

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Faber: One of Han Fastolfe's house robots on Aurora. (3-4-15)
Fallom: Child of Sarton Bander, fourteen years old when taken from Solaria by Bliss during Golan Trevize's expedition in search of Earth after she had first been forced to kill its parent and then discovered that it would have been put to death by the other Solarians as being too immature to inherit Bander's estate. When the expedition discovered Daneel Olivaw on Earth's moon, Fallom remained with Daneel so that their brains could be merged to enable Daneel to live long enough to ensure the successful evolution of Galaxia. (14-IV-12-54 etc.)
Fanya: Han Fastolfe's wife immediately prior to Elijah Baley's visit to Aurora. (3-4-16,6-24)
Fara, Jord: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Encyclopedia Committee at the time of Salvor Hardin's coup. (10-II-3)
Far Star: Hober Mallow's trading ship. (10-V-9)
Far Star: Highly advanced, experimental Foundation pocket-cruiser with gravitic drive and a computer capable of responding to human thought, used by Golan Trevize and Janov Pelorat on their quest for the lost planet Earth. See Bright Star. (13-3-13 etc.; 14)
Faroul: Lord Ennius' predecessor as Procurator of Earth. (7-6)
Farrill, Biron: Son of the Rancher of Widemos, the leading nobleman of Nephelos. A student at the University of Earth while working with his father for the Nebular Kingdoms' revolutionary movement. (6)
Fastolfe, Han: Aurora's foremost theoretical roboticist, a member of Aurora's World Legislature, and the leading light of the Auroran Humanists, believing that Earth's people could only survive by colonizing the galaxy.; From the Spacer enclave of Spacetown, he and Roj Nemennuh Sarton had initially tried to encourage a wave of emigration from Earth through destabilizing Earth's fragile city-dominated economy by encouraging the use of robots on Earth and showing that robots could be used to help colonize other worlds, but this backfired when the hostility of Earth's people was turned against robots and the Spacers themselves. When this hostility led to the murder of Sarton, Fastolfe's contact with Elijah Baley in the subsequent investigation did much to convince Baley of the need to reverse Earth's conservative attitudes towards emigration.; Fastolfe's early speculation on what he saw as a future science of psychohistory which would provide a "Laws of Humanics" was encouraged by his long-time robot companion Giskard Reventlov, and although he had almost certainly realised unconsciously the nature of the mental powers which Giskard had acquired, Giskard used the same powers to prevent the realisation becoming conscious.; After Elijah Baley's investigation of the murder of Jander Panell led to the discrediting of Kelden Amadiro, Fastolfe's most powerful political opponent, he became Chairman of Aurora in all but name, and for the rest of his life worked to ensure that Humanist policies prevailed, and that the new waves of colonization from Earth met with no hindrance from the Spacers. (1-7,8,9,17; 2-2; 3-1-4 etc.; 4-I-2-5,3-7a,8)
Fastolfe, Lumen: Eldest of Han Fastolfe's two daughters, involved in Globalist politics. (3-7-28)
Fastolfe, Vasilia: See Aliena, Vasilia.
Fearless: Kalganian ship used in the war with the Foundation. (12-II-16)
Fife: One of the five continents of Sark. The Squire of Fife was the most powerful of Sark's ruling elite, controlling one-third of Florina's kyrt production through his extensive landholdings on Florina. His attempt to use the psychic-probed Rik to discredit Trantor in the face of Trantor's Imperial ambitions failed when it was discovered that Rik's deduction that Florina's sun was shortly to turn nova was correct. (5-9)
Filia: Fictional autarchy 30,000 parsecs from Terminus, invented to enable the Mule to exercise his emotional control on the captured Han Pritcher. (11-II-21)
Finangelos: Pret-math student of Streeling University. (9-I-2)
First Citizen of the Union: Title adopted by the Mule after his conquest of the Foundation. (12-I-1)
First Speaker: See Foundation, Second.
Flavella: Golan Trevize's mistress immediately before his exile from Terminus. (13-I-4)
Flexner: Suburb of Terminus city in which Golan Trevize lived. (13-I-4)
Flight, Day of: Day on which Sayshell commemmorated the first arrival of refugees from Earth. (13-13-52)
Flora: Wife of Lord Ennius. (7-6)
Florina: Planet of unspecified location. The only planet on which kyrt grew, Florina's native population of 500 million was governed by the 10,000 Squires from the neighbouring planet of Sark who lived in the upper part of a segregated City, with the assistance of some 20,000 mercenaries employed in the Florinian Patrol. Native Florinians were used on Florina as labourers in the kyrt industry, with the most intelligent taken to Sark and used to staff the Sarkite Civil Service, and the most intelligent of those sent back to Florina to act as Townmen, or native governers. Florina was evacuated after its sun was discovered to be in a pre-nova stage. (5)
Forbidden Worlds: Term used on Comporellon to refer to the fifty Outer Worlds. (14-II-7-26)
Forell, Sennett: Wealthiest and most powerful of the Foundation's merchant princes at the time of Bel Riose's expedition, and instigator of the move to send Lathan Devers to spy on Riose. (11-I-2)
Foundation (First): By the time the Encyclopedia Galactica had broken the illusion of its own existence and realised that it was the Foundation, Hari Seldon had been dead for fifty years, and the collapse of the Empire, which he had foreseen, meant that it had to look after its own interests. Almost simultaneously Salvor Hardin siezed administrative power from the Encyclopedia Committee who had been running Terminus, and military forces from Anacreon landed on the planet, Anacreon having realised that the Empire had neither the will nor the resources to look after its interests in the Periphery.; With the Foundation alone in the Periphery in maintaining a usable nuclear technology, it could afford to play its neighbours one against another, while supplying them with nuclear equipment under the management of a Foundation-controlled "priesthood." When Anacreon again turned aggressor its people had been taught to accept the Foundation as being destined, through Hari Seldon's guidance, to prevail against all comers, and when Anacreon's nuclear technology was shown to be under the control of the Foundation, the attack collapsed and Terminus was left unmolested.; Having seen off the immediate danger from the shards of the Empire, the Foundation expanded its influence through trade, effectively bartering its advanced technology for the raw materials which Terminus lacked, and when the Korellian Republic, which had never come under the influence of the Foundation's priesthood, in turn attacked, the Foundation's trading position was so strong that Korell's internal economy collapsed.; By the time that the more observant elements in the Empire had recognised the threat posed by an expansionist Foundation while the Empire itself was in retreat, the Imperium was more concerned with its own survival than with goings-on in the distant Periphery, and the Foundation was again left to its own destiny, but a serious imbalance in power had grown within the Foundation itself. Terminus was effectively being run by wealthy corporate interests, with smaller traders banished to the Foundation's economic margins, and these outcasts were planning a rebellion when the Mule and his forces appeared and conquered all in his path, including the hitherto invincible Foundation.; Through the intervention of the Second Foundation, the Mule was kept from causing irreparable damage to the Seldon Plan, but after the Mule's death the Foundation was not only shell-shocked but becoming more aware of the existence and nature of the Second Foundation. The Second Foundation was forced to intervene again, and having seen off an attack from Kalgan and destroyed - or so it thought - the Second Foundation, the Foundation continued its expansion until by the mayoralty of Harla Branno a loose Foundation Federation covered a third of the galaxy. (10; 11; 12; 13)
Foundation, Second: Covert counterpart to the overt Foundation of physical scientists formulated by Hari Seldon and Yugo Amaryl to form the nucleus of a Second Galactic Empire. The Second Foundation was known to the First only through an obtuse allusion from Seldon's appearance in the Time Vault.; Its essential function, as the hidden guardian of the Seldon Plan, was to continue to develop it and ensure that the First Foundation adhered to it, speeding the development of the Second Empire. This was made possible through the use of people with mental powers who were able, where necessary, to influence the minds of key personnel in the Foundation and elsewhere. This aspect of the Second Foundation's work may well have been inspired as a result of Seldon's meetings with Daneel Olivaw when Daneel was Chief of Staff and First Minister to Cleon I, and were supposedly, like Daneel's mental touches, governed by the principle of minimalism.; The Second Foundation, whose founder members can be said to have been Wanda Seldon, Stettin Palver and Bor Alurin, was set up in the Galactic Library on Trantor, where it became the only part of Trantor to survive the destruction of the Great Sack which led to the rest of the planet reverting to subsistence agriculture, and where it was, as far as possible, out of sight and out of mind of the Foundation of Terminus.; It was ruled by an Executive Council, known as the Table, of twelve Speakers, each of whom was expected to have made an original contribution to the Seldon Plan, chaired by the First Speaker. Custom maintained that the only prerogative of the First Speaker was to speak first at meetings of the Table, though in practice the post conferred rather more power.; After instigating the rebellion on Anacreon which led to its secession from Imperial rule, the Second Foundation for a long time had no cause to intervene directly in the affairs of the galaxy, although their activities were in any case severely limited by the need to remain hidden. During the Great Sack the Second Foundationers successfully defended the Imperial Library and its grounds against the pillagers, but could not prevent the rest of Trantor being laid waste without fatally drawing attention to themselves.; With the rise to power of the Mule, it became clear not only that the First Foundation was unable to combat the Mule's mental powers but that, if he was left unchecked, the Seldon Plan would be totally disrupted, leaving the galaxy in chaos. The Second Foundation prevented further expansion of his Union of Worlds firstly by interfering with some of his key personnel, then, when he noticed what they had been doing, trapping and "conditioning" him themselves.; When the Mule died a few years later, the First Foundation to some extent inherited his Union of Worlds, but a number of its citizens had realised that the Second Foundation actually existed, and had deduced its nature. The Second Foundation was forced to sacrifice a number of its people in order to make it seem that it had been destroyed, so that the First Foundation would continue to expand economically and politically while thinking that they were masters of their own destiny.; In response to the extensive disruption caused to the Seldon Plan by the Mule, the Second Foundation expanded its operations by recruiting Observers, who were given enough training in mentalics to be useful information-gathers while minimising the risk of drawing attention to themselves, and it was an Observer who alerted the Second Foundation to the exile of Golan Trevize from Terminus and his subsequent journey to Gaia. Although by this time the Second Foundation numbered 40,000, they were prone to internal disputes and power struggles between individuals which belied their supposed role as an enlightened ruling class, and were no match for the mental powers and subtle manipulation of Gaia.; After Trevize had chosen Gaia's preferred path for the future of the galaxy over those of the two Foundations, the Second Foundation continued in the belief that they were the effective rulers of a Foundation-based Second Empire when in fact it had become a lesser player in the evolution of a superconscious Galaxia. (11-II-25; 12-I-1,2,3,4,6,II-8,10,22; 13-2,5,7,8,10,18,19,20)
Foundation Federation: After the Kalganian War the Foundation was able to expand to become a loose Foundation Federation, by the time of Harla Branno's mayoralty covering a third of the Galaxy. (13-2-5)
Frankenn I: First Galactic Emperor. (7-11)
Freeze-out, mental: See Mental freeze-out.
Fulham, Yate: Member of the Board of Trustees of the Encyclopedia Committee at the time of Salvor Hardin's coup. (10-II-3)