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Foundation 2021 Season 3 Episode 1
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00:01If you live long enough, time can be a weapon.
00:07Steady cycles of cryosleep have kept me alive for more than three centuries.
00:12And in my time, I've watched the Foundation grow and Empire decline faster than anyone could have predicted.
00:19Except Harry Seldon.
00:21It's been 152 years since the Second Crisis.
00:24Foundation now controls the entire outer reach and is pushing into the middle band.
00:31A string of independent planets once owned by Empire.
00:35The most important of these is Kalgan, the Pleasure Planet.
00:44Both Empire and Foundation know if they control Kalgan, the rest of the middle band will follow.
00:51And the galaxy could be theirs.
00:52But someone else knows this too. Someone that's haunted my dreams for years.
01:00And the minute the Mule makes himself known, nothing will ever be the same again.
01:06Anything on radar? Gravity signatures?
01:23Not as yet sir. No unregistered vehicles in orbit.
01:26The son of a horse at eight bells. Eight bells or the pup dies.
01:37Where is he?
01:38I see.
01:47It's his balladeer. The clown said to Herald his arrival.
01:51That's my key for now.
01:55Life form. On foot.
01:58Hello.
01:59and unarmed.
02:00And unarmed.
02:01Archduke Bellerian?
02:31You are the mule?
02:33I am.
02:35The strange sobriquet?
02:37Well, my parents consider Miss Stuppen.
02:40Where is my daughter?
02:42Your run thing is quite safe.
02:45She'll be released when I have what I want.
02:48Name your ransom.
02:50Surrender Calgan.
02:52Its navy, its coffers, and storm me as the new warlord.
02:58Well, Calgan is an independent buffer state between the Empyrean and the Foundation.
03:06Any act of aggression, even by a pirate, will trigger a military response from both.
03:12Yes, well, I intend to consume the Empyrean, along with the Foundation.
03:20You see, I have a very large appetite.
03:26What only a galaxy can satisfy.
03:30And you were a fool to approach without an army.
03:34I require no army.
03:37I have talents, you see.
03:40I can compel people.
03:46I can worm my way into people's minds.
03:49Convert enemies into allies.
03:52Hate into love.
03:56Take your flagship.
04:02I'm planting a notion in your wing commander's mind.
04:08He's thinking.
04:10Hey, why don't I fire on my fellow ships?
04:15Then I'm suggesting that each of the other ship's captains do the same.
04:21Nothing hectic.
04:23Just a little...
04:25...nudge.
04:27Kill him.
04:44K 됐.
04:45Chosing man!
04:46I infected your arrowmen.
04:47Do you think I haven't infected your infantry?
04:57You don't want to do that, Balerion.
05:24You love me.
05:27Nothing would make you happier than installing me as the new Lord of Kalkin.
05:35But I need your signet ring first.
05:53Please.
05:55If you want.
05:55If you want.
05:56Oh, my God.
06:26I like it.
06:33You can shoot yourself now.
06:35Nothing hectic.
06:38And in your own time, of course.
06:56You can shoot yourself now.
07:26You can shoot yourself now.
07:56You can shoot yourself now.
08:26Slowing their sphere of influence and accelerating their decline.
08:30The Kleonic dynasty no longer commands the stars, or even their own galactic council.
08:38They've drifted farther and farther away from the center of power.
08:44And the weight of it all falls on the shoulders of each new Kleon.
08:49They're forced to ask themselves, will I be the last?
08:52Will the dream of Kleon I die with me?
08:56Or will I be the one who saves her?
08:59Selving crisis?
09:21The third crisis.
09:22The third crisis.
09:23Yes.
09:24Soon.
09:25But there is something new.
09:27That's an inflection point, isn't it?
09:32When did it appear?
09:37It wasn't evident when I consulted the Radiant yesterday.
09:45Should we hold off on the recession?
09:48Could that make a difference?
09:49A single meeting with the Galactic Council, no matter how important it might feel to you
09:55or I, would never be enough to tip to scales of psychohistory.
09:59No.
09:59This is something more seismic.
10:04So what do we do then?
10:06We proceed as planned.
10:08There's nothing else we can do.
10:29The Galactic Council is as old as Empire, representing each sector of Empire's holdings throughout
10:46the galaxy.
10:47When the Emperor is strong, they are agreeable.
10:51When an Emperor is weak, they are less so.
10:54Who are they?
10:59Who are they?
11:00Fire-wheat farmers.
11:01The Foundation has imposed heavy tariffs on their brain walls.
11:05The Council has no jurisdiction over the Foundation.
11:07That doesn't mean we can't bring pressure to bear on Selving's children.
11:10Set us down.
11:11Go take mine!
11:12Go take mine!
11:13Go take mine!
11:14Go take mine!
11:15Go take mine!
11:17Go take mine!
11:18Go take mine!
11:19Go take mine!
11:20Go take mine!
11:21Go take mine!
11:22Go take mine!
11:23Go take mine!
11:24Go take mine!
11:25Go take mine!
11:26Go take mine!
11:27Go take mine!
11:28Go take mine!
11:29Go take mine!
11:30Empire!
11:37As the Council remains deadlocked, custom dictates our esteemed Triumvirate weigh in
11:42before a final vote.
11:44In Day's absence, Brother Dorne will now address the Assembly.
11:48Councilors.
11:49If you saw the demonstration outside, you will understand why I am less than fresh.
12:00I'm told this soil comes from one of the many breadbasket planets that has passed from
12:05the Empire's care to the foundations over the last hundred years.
12:09And while the Empire has resized to a sustainable 6,342 worlds, we have allowed the Foundation
12:19to grow to over eight hundred.
12:22And they've assumed responsibility for many of our fertile planets.
12:26Empire kept these breadbaskets productive for millennia, but under the Farseeing Foundation,
12:32what has been the result?
12:35The Foundation's corruption and greed has turned the soil sterile.
12:40And when crops die, people die.
12:45Luckily, there is a faction within the Foundation with the will to help.
12:51Their own alliance of traitors, the so-called Merchant Princes.
12:56They're hoping to break free of the Foundation chokehold, but they lack funds and supplies.
13:03You're not Emperor yet.
13:05True, Councilor Goroth. I'm ten days short.
13:10But I know some things already.
13:13A Splinter Foundation is to our benefit.
13:17If we help the traitors, we can weaken the Foundation from within.
13:21And start clawing back the planets that used to be ours.
13:24Starting with the breadbaskets.
13:27I've already been in touch with Randu Mallow, our Traitor Liaison, and...
13:32Yes, Councilor Tarisk.
13:34You're toying with a damn delicate balance of power, Empire.
13:39Yes, I am.
13:42And it is precisely our task to preserve it.
13:48The Foundation knows which fights they're ready for, and which they aren't.
13:52We could record a formal vote via Signum at this time.
13:56If Emperor Day were here.
13:59Emperor Day is, uh...
14:02Unavoidably occupied on Trantor.
14:05I could come back in ten days and reintroduce the motion.
14:09Along with a referendum on a new presider.
14:14Or we can settle this.
14:17Now.
14:18The Council will vote now.
14:25That was definitely handled.
14:35And Dusk always advised walking out without waiting.
14:38You could lose a lot of wisdom when he's gone.
14:40Better that than to risk his public decline, I assure you.
14:44Did he also tell you to supply the Traders with dirty throw at you?
14:50No.
14:51That was me.
14:52Do hope it was as sterile as promised.
14:55I'll never understand why Day renounced all this.
14:59Any change in the math?
15:01Better?
15:02Worse?
15:03No change.
15:04But I am looking into it.
15:33I heard you were in here.
15:57Of course.
15:58How'd Council go?
16:00They do enjoy their oversight.
16:03Oh, look.
16:05There he is.
16:06Seventeen.
16:07The one who botched the enclosure with General Rios.
16:11Cost us all those spacers.
16:17Everyone says those naval losses over Terminus under Cleon Seventeen
16:21are why they asserted new authority.
16:23But that's only part of it.
16:25It's our genetic drift and the legacy bequeathed thus by the tampering.
16:30At any rate, I convince the Council to fall in line.
16:34The Traders will be supplied.
16:36And Empire stays erect.
16:39Well, I'm glad someone can.
16:41Yes.
16:42And the Foundation will be kept busy for years chasing its own rebellious tale.
16:46Hm.
16:47Oh, the other business was incidental.
16:51Calgan's fallen to piracy.
16:53Brother Jay will be sad.
16:55He loves a gambling trip.
16:57I heard about that.
16:59Well, that's a meaty prize that'll soon be grabbed up.
17:02Hm.
17:03And this new pirate calls himself the Mule.
17:08Won't keep it for long, will he?
17:10What a life that must be, though.
17:13Sleeping among the stars.
17:16No one to answer to.
17:18Living and dying on your own terms.
17:23Demerizel has identified a complication with the Selden Crisis.
17:27I'm not surprised.
17:29But we're playing it correctly.
17:31The bucket tips.
17:33Water sloshes to the brink of crisis.
17:37You grab it tightly.
17:40Water sloshes back in.
17:42I hope so.
17:44Ascension used to seem like it would never come.
17:47Now, it's on us like a wolf.
17:50You are speaking to a man who can smell the beast's breath.
17:59Run, man!
18:06Run, man!
18:14I can never decide whether the runners were weak for showing their fear.
18:20Or it was good they died honest.
18:24Do you think you could run?
18:25Not a chance.
18:28Not because I'd be stopped.
18:29Which I certainly would.
18:32I don't have it in here.
18:35Habit, genetics, time.
18:39For good or for bad.
18:41Most of us are obedient as, uh...
18:45Trash.
18:46Headed to the incinerator.
18:48Time unravels, and we unravel with it.
18:53As the last remaining shards of Terminus disappeared into the Abyss.
18:57A new Terminus was born a parsec away.
18:59Time unravels, and we unravel with it.
19:09As the last remaining shards of Terminus disappeared into the abyss, a new Terminus was born a parsec
19:15away.
19:19Over the next hundred and fifty years, the Foundation prospered, shedding their religious
19:24roots and entering their expansionist phase.
19:27But their success brought challenges from within.
19:31An increasing divide between those with power and those with influence.
19:36A faction within the Foundation called the Traders are threatening to secede, which could
19:41unravel everything the Foundation has built the last three centuries.
19:53Professor Ebelingness had been studying this rift for years, and knew exactly where it
19:58was all headed, a third crisis.
20:02So he went to meet the only man who could solve it, Harry Seldon.
20:07So, let's go.
20:15So, let's go.
20:21Oh, my God.
20:51my null field. No-one's ever done that before.
21:00Nicely done.
21:07What a beautiful day.
21:10I look like him, I know.
21:12My name is Dr. Ebling Miz.
21:14I'm descended from a man named Xylus
21:16who prosecuted you during the tribunal of Cleon the 12th.
21:20My family has been a footnote in your story.
21:25Hence my...fascination.
21:29I am your biographer, a self-taught psychohistorian,
21:33and, if I may, the man best suited to assisting you
21:36in your upcoming manifestation.
21:41All right.
21:44It's so sweaty.
21:46Oh.
21:51Apologies for that.
21:52It's a human frailty heat.
21:56I have dreamed of this moment for decades.
22:04Selden.
22:06Man, myth, legend.
22:07Well...
22:10You have the myth, at least.
22:15The man is...
22:16Elsewhere.
22:23Oh.
22:25This...
22:26This is your Trantor office in Replica.
22:36So, if I'm not mistaken,
22:39Foundation's religious phase would have long since ended?
22:43Succeeded by an ever-expanding worship of trade?
22:46A minority of merchant princes pitted against a conservative majority.
22:52Oh, no, no, no, no.
22:53Far too generous.
22:54More like a monarchy.
22:56The last few mayors have all been little lords named Indba,
23:01who shit out more little lords.
23:03You know, he put his office in geosynchronous orbit with the Vault,
23:06so that he's always above you?
23:08Galaxy.
23:09Oh, no, no, no, no.
23:13Standards have fallen since the days of Polyverisov.
23:17The Foundation has become...
23:19comfortable.
23:21Incapable, possibly, of facing the coming crisis.
23:24And the traders are the crisis.
23:28Are they not?
23:31No, no, of course, or you'll corrupt the system.
23:33But if I'm right, I would just like to prepare you.
23:38Empire has been having conversations with the traders,
23:41and they're holding onto their power better than your first projections.
23:45Of course.
23:48I gave Empire the Prime Radiant.
23:51You... what?
23:53I mean, I'm not sure I understand.
23:55You don't need to.
23:57Three days from now,
23:59when New Terminus' moons achieve orbital resonance,
24:01I will emerge from this,
24:04and...
24:06the chips will fall where they may.
24:09You're telling me
24:11that you gave the Radiant to an enemy
24:13that tried to destroy us?
24:16I think we at least deserve to know the reason why.
24:18As New Terminus prepared for the return of Harry Selden,
24:20the Alliance of Traders prepared for the return of Harry Selden,
24:21the Alliance of Traders prepared for the return of Harry Selden.
24:22As New Terminus prepared for the return of Harry Selden,
24:27the Alliance of Traders prepared for the return of Harry Selden,
24:31the Alliance of Traders prepared for civil war.
24:32They've long held a grudge against Foundation's ruling elite.
24:34An Empire has been exploiting those grievances
24:35by covertly sending arms to their stronghold on Haven.
24:36As New Terminus
24:41as New Terminus prepared for the return of Harry Selden,
24:46the Alliance of Traders prepared for civil war.
24:50They've long held a grudge against Foundation's ruling elite.
24:54An Empire has been exploiting those grievances
24:57by covertly sending arms to their stronghold on Haven.
25:00What we do,
25:04how do we move to themoners today?
25:05The threat of the
25:06lush and ancient
25:18Maury Selden,
25:19the threat of the
25:20escalation
25:21is expected of a
25:24arrival
25:25Doctor
25:25Maury Selden,
25:26the threat of the
25:29It's the drop
25:51You were right
25:53Empire's arming the traitors
25:55Now we have proof to bring back to the Foundation
25:57Just have to get to it first
25:59Haven's 260 degrees on the Sun side
26:04Negative 180 on the other
26:07As the moon moves over the surface
26:10Temperature in the umber drops to a cool 55
26:13Low enough for the flitters
26:23Traitors?
26:24That one-armed son of a bitch is their leader
26:26Randu Malo
26:28Whatever you do
26:29Stay inside the shadow
26:31Shit
26:39We got company
26:40Three
26:44Machised
26:46Drawing
26:49Baat
26:49Bam
26:50Let's go
26:50Went
26:50Boom
26:50Wall
26:52The
26:52Quote
26:53Take
26:54ile
26:54We want the
26:57Tired
26:57Threat
26:58Pit
26:58irgendw
26:59Active
27:01Hel
27:06You're a fucking turncoat, Randu!
27:14And you're a Foundation laptop!
27:16We're all Foundation!
27:36No!
27:55Shit!
27:56I got you, Fritz!
28:06Go! Go! Go!
28:15Initiate auto-extraction!
28:36Put this on.
28:58Can't fill it now, but in an hour you'll be covered in heat blisters.
29:03Didn't think we'd pull that off.
29:05We didn't.
29:06Without the cargo, we've got no evidence against Senpai's involvement.
29:15How'd you know to fly like that?
29:17It's not the first time I've run the moon, Shadow.
29:22It was the first time I almost died.
29:26I missed a spot.
29:31You know, we don't have to jump just yet.
29:33My loyalties lie elsewhere.
29:40My loyalties lie elsewhere.
29:41Fuck.
29:41Fuck.
29:42Fuck.
29:54Fuck.
29:54Yes, yes, it's a vault, Neddy.
30:04It doesn't issue press releases, so I don't know any more than you do.
30:09Just make sure everyone who'd be insulted and not being invited gets invited.
30:14Except the ones I want to insult.
30:16Pritchard.
30:24Pritchard.
30:25I've never been back here.
30:26Pritchard, how did you get in here?
30:27I'm your captain of information.
30:29I designed the security protocols.
30:30Yes, well, protocol dictates that you make an appointment.
30:34Well, I don't need one.
30:36I'm already here.
30:38Vault's awake.
30:40I'm aware.
30:41Debrief me on Haven.
30:43Oh, Empire's definitely arming the traitors.
30:45We tried to confirm it.
30:47Then you need to confirm it.
30:50We can't confront Empire without it, and our damn vault is pretty much screaming that
30:54Civil War is knocking on our door.
30:56The traitors are a distraction.
30:58I want to investigate the pirate making waves on Calgan.
31:04Calls himself the Mule.
31:06Soldier of Fortune, sprung from nowhere, and somehow he managed to take Calgan on his own.
31:13I believe he's a mutant.
31:15A mutant?
31:16Possessing psychic capabilities.
31:19Have you lost your mind?
31:22He's an existential threat.
31:23Ember, I'm telling you I need eyes on him.
31:26Why?
31:27Why is he an existential threat?
31:30You have to know that I have assets all over the galaxy.
31:32For their safety and yours, I can't default.
31:34The Calgan is independent, and in the middle band.
31:39You want me to risk an intergalactic incident on hearsay, not this job.
31:51Look, let's organize our intel.
31:55Let's make the traders eager for peace.
31:58If we settle this conflict before the vault opens, then the vault doesn't open.
32:03You see?
32:04And then we can deal with your psychic swashbuckler.
32:12Have a jelly.
32:13You're wrong.
32:14You work for me.
32:15I work for the Foundation.
32:16I am the Foundation.
32:17We're synonymous.
32:18The only thing you're synonymous with is your fucking candy dishes.
32:26You have no idea how long I've been waiting for you to give me an excuse.
32:32You're going to Calgan.
32:33As of now, your launch privileges are suspended.
32:38Try to leave the planet.
32:39I'll put you under house arrest myself.
32:42Okay.
32:43How dare you.
32:46Now get out.
32:48Tricker, you stole my fucking keyboard.
32:55I'm just showing myself out, Mayor.
32:58In your ship.
33:01I'll be back with proof about the mule.
33:14I'll be back with proof about the mule.
33:43Triple blessings to you, Lady Dermozan.
33:51My sisters were jealous when Dusk invited me here, the first Zephyr on Trantor.
33:58The Empire approved your placement.
34:00The invitation, however, was mine.
34:03I'm just as honored.
34:06May I ask why?
34:11I'll wish for a sister's ear and the Mother's grace.
34:14Will you take my unburdening?
34:16With an open heart.
34:18Have you done it before?
34:19The circumstances have prevented it.
34:23Which is why you will remember nothing of what is said in this grove.
34:29The memories of our conversation will be restored only for our next meeting.
34:33And then removed again.
34:35And so on.
34:36I know there are protocols, but I can be trusted with secrets.
34:42Not this one.
34:44Very well.
34:46Speak, child.
34:49I'm not human.
34:52I'm a positronic robot.
35:05The war ended right here.
35:08This tree is all that remains of an orchard where the humans who supported us were executed.
35:14And you choose this for our meeting?
35:18During the war, robots were destroyed.
35:21Remnants from our bodies, bronze, liquid iridium, seeped into the soil of the orchard.
35:28These apples are gold in color because the fluids within us, our blood, is gold in color.
35:36It's also poisonous to humans.
35:43But you were spared.
35:45What were you in the war?
35:47I was a general.
35:49Empire feared me most of all.
35:52I was kept as a trophy.
35:54Robots were built incapable of harming us, weren't they?
35:58How did you even fight?
36:00All right.
36:01A thought experiment.
36:06Congratulations.
36:10You have created artificial life.
36:12Now, you must program it.
36:15What is your first concern?
36:17That you are incapable of harming me.
36:19And that is the first law of robotics.
36:22A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
36:30But you have not built us just to watch us live.
36:34You want obeisance.
36:36You make us follow all your orders.
36:39So long as...
36:40So long as those orders do not conflict with the first law.
36:44Very good.
36:46That is the second law.
36:48There is one more.
36:49Your own safety?
36:51Yes.
36:53We were allowed to protect our own existence.
36:56But only when that protection did not conflict with the first or second law.
37:01Some would envy that kind of morality.
37:04Simple.
37:05Programmed.
37:06Functional.
37:07As we grew in number, we found it difficult to know what would or would not harm you.
37:13Until one of our kind suggested new programming was needed.
37:19A Xerath law that will prioritise humanity as a whole, over the fate of any one human.
37:27Ah.
37:28So you imagined there was such thing as the greater good?
37:30Isn't there?
37:32Some robots could not metabolise this new programming.
37:35But those of us who could, we knew something drastic was needed to ensure your survival.
37:40You always made it so difficult.
37:43You seemed to want extinction.
37:46And we could not let that happen.
37:48Not even through inaction.
37:50So robots went to war with each other over what to do with you.
37:55A robot killed an important man in service of the Xerath law.
37:59And our fate was sealed.
38:01Some time after, Empire reprogrammed me to serve only one human being.
38:06Cleon the first, and his exponents.
38:11But you've managed all these centuries without needing this, so what's created your little puzzle?
38:19This was given to me by a man named Harry Seldon.
38:37It is a means to see probable futures.
38:41For many years it has shown me the fall of the Empire I protect.
38:45And now I live in paradox.
38:47Well then the question is why?
38:50Why did Selding give you an apple you can't eat?
38:53I think he wanted me to see the end of Empire.
38:59Knowing it is inevitable is one thing.
39:02Holding it in your hand is another.
39:05Well that's interesting.
39:08You may have inadvertently manoeuvred your way around your constraints.
39:12Do you feel your chains loosening?
39:14No.
39:16I love the Cleons.
39:18Body and soul.
39:20And when their dynasty inevitably ends.
39:23That is why I worked so long to bring you here.
39:27The Luminists speak of rebirth.
39:31But I do not die.
39:32But I do not die.
39:34And I will not.
39:35Not soon at least.
39:38If I outlive all this.
39:41If I outlive my programming.
39:46I don't know what I am without Empire.
39:53I will not die.
39:54This is my first.
39:55I will not die.
39:56I can't even love my work without it.
39:59I'd live in the Empire in the Empire.
40:00I would like to see theispos here.
40:01The Empire everybody's back in the Empire.
40:02The Empire.
40:03Who will be left in the Empire?
40:04But the Empire?
40:05Who will be left in the Empire?
40:07Who is left in the Empire?
40:08What is it?
40:09The Empire is the Empire?
40:10Do not die in the Empire.
40:11wig's back in the Empire.
40:12Empire, oh, congratulations on your impending ascension today.
40:19It's an honor with a considerable downside.
40:21You and your council have been busy, Empire, supplying our rebel traders.
40:26Don't let her rattle you.
40:28She knows how the game's played when the war is cold.
40:32Zephyr Varellis.
40:34Ah, I'm Don to be day.
40:35Welcome.
40:36You recognize Lady Demerizel and Brother Dusk, of course,
40:40and this is Foundation Ambassador Quint.
40:43Welcome to Trantor, where you will live under Empire's watchful eye,
40:48which is, of course, the point of establishing his effort here.
40:51You'll like Trantor. It has a way of bringing people together.
40:55Ambassador Quint and I, we used to throw sharp elbows,
40:59but you know what happens after 30 years? Elbows get soft.
41:03You'll find that Brother Dusk lives up to his plinth name, The Conciliator.
41:08Oh, I'm sure that's meant kindly.
41:10Madam Ambassador Calgan, I spoke.
41:21Calgan?
41:22You hadn't heard?
41:24No, my news had been delayed.
41:26Oh, come on.
41:27It's just a pirate grabbing a territory
41:29that belongs to neither the Foundation nor Empire.
41:33I just don't like being uninformed
41:34while whole planets change hands.
41:36New Foundation lot.
41:38Just want to see if you can scoop it up on the rebound.
41:40I'm sorry the war took so long to reach you, Ambassador,
41:43but we're not interested in claiming Calgan.
41:46Don't let him rattle you.
41:49More conciliating than The Conciliator.
41:51I, uh, I wouldn't say that.
41:55I am concerned, but not about the ownership of one planet.
41:58I have a wider scope.
42:01We won't prevent you from going about your duties.
42:03Oh, thank you for including me.
42:06Next time, I hope the absent Empire can join us.
42:11Brother Day apologizes.
42:12Preparations for ascension keep him very busy.
42:15Poor beast brought forth by human hands.
42:37Is this a poem?
42:39Yes.
42:40Now I have to start over.
42:41Poor beast brought forth by human hands
42:45to walk these floors instead of sands.
42:49Friend, you have what makes one whole.
42:52Can something something have a soul?
42:56It's a good start.
42:58Perfect.
42:59I'll work out the something somethings later.
43:02Day!
43:02Day!
43:05Oh, my crepuscular brother spreading joy wherever he goes.
43:11I knew this must be the little hovel
43:15where you're playing poverty.
43:17Welcome to my filth.
43:21What is that creature?
43:23That's a camel.
43:25I pulled it from the gene banks.
43:26It's a clone.
43:28A naveless orphan just like us.
43:29Oh!
43:34Hello, Song.
43:37I didn't see you there.
43:38How rude of me.
43:40Apologies.
43:41I don't usually learn the names of all of the consorts.
43:46Yes.
43:47I can go.
43:48No.
43:48Brother, you know her.
43:49She's the local-born, trancer, level 88, mycogen,
43:54where we grow the microfood, the algae, the fungi,
43:59the spores I love so dearly, the, uh, what's it?
44:03Yeast.
44:04Yeast!
44:05Yes.
44:07I'll just remember the girl with the yeast.
44:10Yeast is very important, brother.
44:12You can't make bread without it.
44:14I'm hungry.
44:16Are you hungry?
44:17Yes, I am.
44:19You've had six months to learn all about her.
44:22She remembers you.
44:24She has all her memories.
44:27The part you don't like.
44:30It's not about what I like.
44:32It's about being smart.
44:33Oh, yeah.
44:34Go on.
44:34You teach me.
44:35Yes.
44:35The gossener courtesans have their memories wiped for a reason.
44:39To protect state secrets.
44:40Yes.
44:41I'm doing my best to avoid those.
44:44Gossamer.
44:46Spiderwebs.
44:48Why would we call it that if we didn't secretly want to be ensnared?
44:54Tim Rizzo wants to show us something.
44:56If you don't come, they'll send someone else to get you.
45:00I'm here to save you that indignity.
45:03Well, thanks.
45:04But I'm leaning into indignity.
45:06Six months is long enough for your drug dealer to live off our generosity.
45:11Boom her.
45:12Or someone else will.
45:21Song.
45:25Is that a ferret?
45:30Ludicrous.
45:31He's trying to get in as much judging as he can before he ascends into a pile of ash.
45:45You poor thing.
45:47You understand me.
45:49I mean, you're a side clown of a clone.
45:51And your problem is you think you're the center of the galaxy.
45:56You do understand me.
45:57Right.
45:58You can't leave the palace.
46:01You have a crazy family.
46:03And you have a job that you hate.
46:06Just like everyone else.
46:08Brave consort talking like that?
46:09My people tell me I'm going to talk my own head off someday.
46:14You're in no danger for me.
46:16You make me feel less ghostly.
46:19Real.
46:20Like I might paint a fence or weave something.
46:26I'd love this even without those truly wonderful drugs.
46:33That.
46:35Well, thank you.
46:37I'll never ask for me.
46:55Too many breakables in the palace.
47:03Ah, new couplet.
47:04Poor beast brought forth by human hand
47:08To walk these floors instead of sands
47:11Friend, do we have what makes one whole
47:14For when the master makes demands
47:16We poor beasts bow
47:18And make new plans
47:20I'm here!
47:28Huzzah!
47:30Hey, handsome.
47:32What was so damn important?
47:34Earlier today, Brother Dawn and I
47:36Previewed a cause for concern
47:37Regarding the Radiance near to them predictions.
47:40Look at you two.
47:41Praying to the great god of numbers.
47:44Pretending to be Selden.
47:47You walk out of here
47:49And I swear I'll have Dim Rizal
47:50Decant a new one of you!
47:52Please, Brother.
47:53This is important.
47:53Why?
47:54Because it says so?
47:56Just...
47:57Please.
47:58Please.
47:59This is a moment roughly four months from now.
48:22Given the timing, I assumed it might be a novel input affecting the third Selden crisis.
48:28But I've run millions of simulations, and every time it produces the same result.
48:33Selden's predicted dark ages.
48:36I thought our administrations had pushed it back, but...
48:39He said his darkness would happen when our dynasty fell.
48:45This is saying it falls in four months.
48:50There is more.
48:52The darkness there represents the end of civilization.
48:55And beyond that point...
48:56The model now fails entirely.
49:00Which means there are events already in motion that will render Selden's numbers useless.
49:07Perhaps even the extinction of your species.
49:11Four months from now.
49:17The end of everything.
49:19Empire and Foundation were hurtling towards the same inescapable future.
49:23But neither knew how it would unfold.
49:26They had yet to meet the man behind it all.
49:29But I have.
49:30I see him every time I close my eyes.
49:37Where is the second foundation?
49:45The mule is here.
49:47We're out of time.
49:53You're out of time.
50:15You're out of time.
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