Campbell, after reading Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire when he was working at the Philadelphia Navy Yard with Robert Heinlein. The fall of the empire, modelled on the fall of the Roman Empire, is the subject of many of Asimov's novels.Īsimov created the fictional Galactic Empire in the early 1940s based upon the Roman Empire, as a proposal to John W. Cleon II was the last Emperor to hold significant authority. The official symbol of the empire is the Spaceship-and-Sun. For over 12 millennia the seat of imperial authority was located on the ecumenopolis of Trantor, whose population exceeded 40 billion, until it was sacked in the year 12,328. The Empire is spread across the Milky Way galaxy and consists of almost 25 million planets settled exclusively by humans. The Galactic Empire is an interstellar empire featured in Isaac Asimov's Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation series. At its height, the Galactic Empire spanned the entire Milky Way galaxyĪurora, Solaria, Terminus, Trantor (capital)Īrkady Darell, Hari Seldon, R.
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