Trantor, 12 053 Galactic Era
Hari Seldon looked at his calculations, and told himself: this can't be right.
The galactic empire seems to be at the height of it's power, however, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon predicted that it's capital, trantor, would fall in the following 300 or so years.
Following this would come 30 000 years of chaos and barbary before a new empire could rise, predicted once again thanks to his calculations, if we did nothing.
But how could anyone do nothing in those conditions?
As the empire could not be prevented to fall, Seldon decided to act in another way: reducing the interreign, also known as the period between the 2 empires.
He decided to create The Foundation on planet Terminus, on the outskirts of the galaxy, to reduce the interreign to only 1000 years.
The Western Republic and The Aequitas International decided to help him to the best of their capacity, sending 100k people total to create the colony.
The starting goal is simple, collect all the scientific knowledge of the empire, and spread it through the galaxy through an encyclopedia, however, as time passed, it became clear that Seldon wanted these people to establish the empire themselves.... (with the help of a second foundation)
TLDR the merger between Western Republic and The Aequitas International rebrands to The Foundation