Tazenda
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Tazenda is a planet that plays an important role in Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
The position of the planet was in Pelot's Nebula. Bail Channis, a soldier of the Mule, believed that Hari Seldon's Second Foundation (said to lie at Star's end) was on Tazenda. When (and only when) viewed from Trantor, where Hari Seldon spent most of its life, this star was at the tip of a 'knife' of stars buried in the nebula. Its name was very similar to Star's end. Tazenda also fit the most likely description for the Second Foundation's society: it was an oligarchy that ruled over 27 worlds, enough to defend itself but not enought to be conspicuous; throughout its history, Tazenda stayed out of all interstellar politics.
The planet was destroyed by the Mule in 302 F.E. It was not, in fact, the location of the Second Foundation.
| Major and minor planets featured in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series |
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| Anacreon | Aurora | Baley's World (Comporellon) | Earth | Gaia | Helicon | Kalgan | Korell | Delicass (Neotrantor) | Sayshell | Solaria | Siwenna | Tazenda | Terminus | Trantor (Hame) |
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