Foundation (Foundation, #1)

by Isaac Asimov

There were nearly twenty-five million inhabited planets in the Galaxy then, and not one but owed allegiance to the Empire whose seat was on Trantor.

To Gaal,

debarkation

home planet of Synnax,

debarkation,

“Oh, yes. There is probability of 1.7% that I will be executed, but of course that will not stop the project. We have taken that into account as well.