See pictures for details of condition When the Galactic Empire began to die, the ends of the Galaxy reverted to barbarism and dropped away, Harry Sheldon and his band of psychologist planted a colony the foundation to incubate art, science, and technology, informed and because of the 2nd empire. The course of the foundation script was plotted according to the science of psycho history conditions were arranged to bring about a series of crises forcing it to move rapidly along the route to Future empire.