Nov 24, 2021 · Without knowing the fraction of Trantor's surface covered by oceans, we can only compare Trantor to Earth's land area, which is approximately 149 million km 2. (148 940 000 km 2 per Wikipedia .) The given 75 million square miles land area for Trantor is about 194 million km 2 (to the same amount of precision).

Dec 11, 2018 · Hari Seldon was speaking as a sociologist, not a geometer and "Star's End" is the opposite social end of the Galaxy from Terminus: Trantor. And Preem Palver, a farmer from Trantor, is revealed as the First Speaker of the Second Foundation having sacrificed fifty members of the Second Foundation to fool the First that it had found and destroyed ...

Jul 9, 2013 · Trantor is located as close to the galactic core as possible for humans to still be able to inhabit it. It is also slightly larger than Earth. Trantor was first mentioned in a short story by Asimov, 'Black Friar of the Flame', later collected as The Early Asimov, Volume 1.

Mar 21, 2016 · Trantor has a land area of 75 million square miles, so the pop. density is ~500 per sq mile, less than Maryland or the UK. In Second Foundation Asimov retconned Trantor's population to 400 billion -- about as dense as the metro areas of Montreal or Sydney or San Francisco. That's probably too dense to feed itself, but it's not a world full of ...

Mar 28, 2016 · The opening chapters of Asimov's Foundation characterize Trantor as being a dense, highly-populated city, to the point that it's almost exclusively indoors and extends a mile underground. But in the Encyclopedia Galactica entry on Trantor, Asimov states that Trantor has a land surface area of 75,000,000 square miles and a population over 40 ...

Jun 4, 2024 · In an article about the '80s video game Trantor: The Last Stormtrooper, the author, Nick Bruty, says he got the name "Trantor" from "a planet in an L. Ron Hubbard book." Trantor is a planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, and he used the name in at least one other work. Every search I've done around the name includes Asimov, but I can't ...

Jun 16, 2020 · Trantor was depicted as covered in domes and stretching underground, Coruscant is depicted as a normal city with above ground buildings, towers etc. Been quite a few years since I read the Foundation books but wasn't it a big deal that Trantorians never saw the sky?

Oct 2, 2023 · At the end of Forward the Foundation, Hari talks about sending Wanda away from Trantor: “No, Wanda,” Seldon replied, his voice choked with emotion. “I don’t want you to leave, but it is the only way. You and Stettin must isolate yourselves from …

Nov 16, 2012 · There's a Galactic Empire with a bureaucratic capital world (Trantor / Coruscant) There are outer provinces whose inhabitants are mainly smugglers and scavengers. Ships jumps into hyperspace for shortening traveling time. The Republic (Star Wars) resembles The Scientist Community in Terminus.

Jan 12, 2015 · None of the books in the Foundation canon describe anyone living on the surface of Trantor apart from the Emperor and his staff. Though it should be noted that Trantor's description is a bit different in the prequels than they are in the Foundation trilogy itself.