

The leader of the group is the First Speaker. But it was rumored that there was a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind. After years of struggle, the Foundation lay in ruins - destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. They were governed by a council of the strongest telepaths, called the Speakers. Previews available in: English French German. It was revealed at the end of the third book in the original Foundation series that the Second Foundation was located on the planet Trantor, which in comparison to the First Foundation was the true opposite end of the Galaxy, from a perspective of social science rather than physical science. Located at Star's End, its purpose was to be hidden from the first Foundation and help insure success in the plan set out by Hari Seldon. The Second Foundation was an organisation founded by Hari Seldon as a budding colony of mentalics, people with telepathic abilities. They will be the Empire's guardians." ― Hari Seldon to Yugo Amaryl They will serve as a group who will introduce fine adjusments as time goes on, you see. " And there will be a Second Foundation of psychohistorians only - mentalists, mind-touching psychohistorians - who will be able to work on psychohistory in a multi-minded way, advancing it far more quickly than individual thinkers ever could.
