Hari Seldon's digital consciousness will have a big role to play in Foundation season 2. (Image credit: Apple TV Plus)

Grater, Tom (January 31, 2020). "Apple Series 'Foundation' Set To Be Ireland's Largest Ever Production, Employing 500+ People". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on June 23, 2020 . Retrieved June 24, 2021. Expect the Cleons to play a massive role in shaping Foundation's future. (Image credit: Apple TV Plus) Elaborating further in his talk with IGN, Goyer said: "By the time season 2 has come around, the Foundation has actually spread to seven or eight worlds. They're not just a single enclave on a single planet, so now they're not just up against a few so-called barbarian planets. [The Foundation is] up against the entire might of Empire and the superluminal fleet. So the question is, how in Seldon's name is the Foundation going to survive a direct threat from Empire itself?"Ahead of the first season's launch, showrunner David S Goyer (per Decider) revealed he had given Apple an eight-season outline for Foundation's TV adaptation. The show has deviated somewhat from the story told in Asimov's books so, alongside adapting parts from the wider source material, Goyer and company could tell a more complete narrative in the seasons to come.

The Galactic Empire that crumbles and disappears in Asimov’s first story is an ever-present menace throughout Goyer’s first season—bad guys hanging around to do bad things and demonstrate how bad imperialism is. Goyer’s story is thus more thematically relevant to empire in the 21st century than Asimov’s, but it also isn’t as good. Almost every major political event in Goyer’s universe is either an act of violence or an act compelled by the threat of violence. His characters are motivated not by bursts of rational insight, but raw ethnic and identitarian resentment. This gets tedious after a few hours. Elliot Cowan as Lewis Pirenne (season 1), the Director of the Foundation and first successor of Hari SeldonWe wonder if Poly can conjure up a fourth season of Foundation for us. (Image credit: Apple TV Plus)

In 1998, the novel Spectre (part of the Shatnerverse series) by William Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens states that the Mirror Universe divergent path has been studied by the Seldon Psychohistory Institute. Pederson, Eric (March 8, 2022). "VES Awards: 'Dune' & 'Encanto' Lead With Four Wins Each; 'Foundation' Tops TV – Full Winners List". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 9, 2022 . Retrieved March 9, 2022.Steady on, dear reader. Foundation season 3 hasn't been confirmed, so we're getting ahead of ourselves by thinking about a fourth installment. Asimov, Isaac (1980). In Joy Still Felt: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954–1978. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. chapter 24. ISBN 978-0-385-15544-1. Rossignol, Joe (June 23, 2021). "Apple TV+ Series 'Foundation' and 'The Problem With Jon Stewart' Premiering in September". MacRumors. Archived from the original on June 29, 2021 . Retrieved June 23, 2021. Arranca en Tenerife el rodaje de la serie 'Foundation', nueva apuesta de Apple TV". El Día (in Spanish). March 23, 2021. Archived from the original on June 4, 2021 . Retrieved March 29, 2021. Fleming, Mike Jr.; Andreeva, Nellie (April 10, 2018). "Apple Lands Isaac Asimov 'Foundation' TV Series From David Goyer & Josh Friedman". Deadline. Archived from the original on September 21, 2018 . Retrieved August 23, 2018.

Still, there are plenty of unresolved plot threads and new material to explore in the series' next outing. Thanks to its cast and showrunner David S Goyer, we know more about how they might be examined in greater detail. As we know, Demerzel was the one who hired the Blind Angels to make an attempt on Day's life. Day wanted to marry Sareth and father his own children, which would've ended the Cleonic dynasty. This plan went against the directives Cleon I gave Demerzel – remember, she's a robot – centuries earlier, which included maintaining that dynasty. Long story short: Demerzel planned to set up Sareth as Day's would-be murderer and execute her to preserve the status quo. a b Goldberg, Lesley (April 18, 2019). " 'Foundation' Co-Showrunner Josh Friedman Departs Apple Drama (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019 . Retrieved May 4, 2019. In The Stars Like Dust everybody knows that the radioactive Earth was the original home world of humans. Only a part of the galaxy has been explored and colonized yet.

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Foundation and Empire is composed of two stories: "The General" and "The Mule". The former was first published in the April 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction under the title "Dead Hand", while the latter was first published in the November and December 1945 issues of the same magazine.