![]() ![]() On the Foundation’s 80th anniversary, Hari Seldon appears again via 3-D recording. The nearby planets sign peace treaties that give the Foundation new powers over them. Deposed and charged with religious crimes, Wienis takes his own life. He sends a fleet of ships, but, as the moment of victory nears, Wienis finds that his engineer-priests have gone on strike, and all mechanical activity stops on Anacreon and its spaceships. The leader of the planet Anacreon, Prince Regent Wienis, disbelieves the religion and plots to conquer the Foundation, which has no military defenses. Citizens adopt the religion and depend on the Foundation for its bounty. ![]() ![]() The engineers who maintain those worlds’ infrastructures are priests trained in a new religion, promoted by the Foundation, which teaches that advanced technology is a holy miracle provided by a Galactic Spirit. During the decades that follow, the Foundation, under the watchful eye of Mayor Hardin, provides nuclear power and other technologies to the increasingly technologically inferior planets nearby. ![]()
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