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tory at Streeling University with Yugo Amaryl's help, sabotages a plot by a populist named Jo-Jo Joranum to overthrow Cleon I. Seldon uses Raych as an agent and Raych reveals to Joranum that Demerzel is a robot. Then, when Joranum accuses Demerzel, the First Minister responds like Stephen Byerly in "Evidence," that is, he does something impossible for a robot: he laughs. Joranum and his movement collapse. |
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In Part II, "Cleon I," Demerzel has left office and Seldon has been named First Minister. Dors saves Seldon from an assassination attempt, with the help of an Imperial gardener named Gruber. Over his protests, Gruber is promoted by the Emperor to Head Gardener. Meanwhile Joranum's right-hand man, Gambol Deen Namarti, is conspiring with Gleb Andorin, a member of the Mayoralty family of Wye with claims on the throne, to assassinate Cleon by infiltrating the new Head Gardener's staff. Again Raych is used as an agent in Wye, and becomes involved with a prostitute named Manella Dubanqua who is used as a source of information by Namarti. |
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Raych is recognized and Namarti plans to plant him among the new gardeners and use him, drugged with "desperance," to assassinate Seldon, whereupon Raych will be shot down by Andorin. Raych's presence among the new gardeners is part of Seldon's plan, but not his drugged state. But as the blasters are raised, another gardener shoots Andorin; she is Dubanqua, who reveals that she is a security officer. Ironically, Gruber grabs a dropped blaster and kills the Emperor, so that he won't have to be Head Gardener. |
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In Part III, "Dors Venabili," Seldon has resigned as First Minister, a military government has taken over, and Seldon has returned to Streeling University and his work on psychohistory, along with Yugo Amaryl. A new addition to the staff, Tamwile Elar, has supplied equations that may get around the problem of chaos, and helped invent the Electro-Clarifier that works with the Prime Radiant (a complex computer that projects equations) to squeeze material into the lines and curves of the future. Raych has married Dubanqua and they have an eight-year-old daughter, Wanda. |
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The head of the military government, General Dugal Tennar, is prompted by his chief assistant, Hender Linn, to summon Seldon to inquire about psychohistory and decide how to replace him with someone more tractable. The meeting is delayed by a widespread celebration of Seldon's sixtieth birthday, but then Dors follows Seldon into the Imperial Palace grounds, using her abilities to force a meeting on Linn, warning him that any harm to Seldon would mean death of Linn and Tennar, and possibly rebellion. |
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