Talk:Trantor

message: The Death Star is not a planet but a space station. In this respect it does not resemble Trantor, but DOES resemble Roger's Planetoid in one of E. E. Doc Smith's Lensman novels. (Anybody care to remind me which one?)
:It was Triplanetary.
I think the Death Star reference should be removed.  The space station is nothing like Trantor and could be confusing to those not familiar with the subject of this article.  Thoughts? -- User:Jacob1207.
:Disagree. Both are huge, enclosed areas for people to live in. That's the whole reason for the reference →Raul654 23:27, Feb 13, 2004 (UTC)
::I think the differences between Trantor and the Death Star are significant enough to cause confusion to those unfamiliar with Trantor (I imagine most are familiar with the Death Star).  (1) The Death Star is an artificial space station while Trantor is a natural planet that has been completely built-up and (2) people live on Trantor (and just under its surface) while they live in the Death Star. -- Jacob1207
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Why the link to Retcon?  Can it be included in the text? →Iñgólemo← 21:06, 2004 Aug 31 (UTC)
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The radius is listed as both "1965 km", and "two thirds" of Earth's radius. Earth's radius is about 6350 km, more than three times this value. Which is correct?--Christopher Thomas 02:53, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: ...because it contradicted the previous statment on land surface area.
--4.235.81.221 18:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I eliminated the statement that Trantor's radius is 1965 km... 

message: I seem to recall reading about a city-planet called Trantor that suffered a devastating plague so bad that the whole thing was quarantined and people were still afraid to go in two centuries later.  Perhaps I am mashing two memories together, but I'm pretty sure I'm not simply insane.  
Does anyone else remember anything like this? 24.118.231.95 07:59, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I thought Trantor turned into a plague world? 

message: SPOILER WARNING
Shouldn't we make a section called "Trantor as the Second Foundation" and just put big spoiler signs in the beginning? This is important in the foundation novels. Slartibartfast1992 21:16, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh yeah, the home base of an organization of mind manipulating people who calculate the future is not really that important. Seriously, what are you trying to sound like? Did you think the effect of such a contradictory statement would be to shut me up? How about two paragraphs, at least? There's plenty of material: How people mistook the "opposite ends of the galaxy" thing, how they had let the Great Sack proceed so they could emerge, how they now had a world of farmers, only to name a few things. Slartibartfast1992 01:45, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

text: OK, I just want some consent so that the edits I will try and add this weekend soon about Trantor being the Second Foundation are not considered vandalism. Slartibartfast1992 01:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Yeah, I'll get around to doing that soon. Slartibartfast (1992) 21:40, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trantor as the Second Foundation? 

message: The w/u currently reads:
To support the needs and whims of the population, food from twenty agricultural worlds brought by ships in the tens of thousands, fleets greater than any navy ever constructed by the Empire. "Its dependence upon the outer worlds for food and, indeed, for all necessities of life, made Trantor increasingly vulnerable to conquest by siege. In the last millennium of the Empire, the monotonously numerous revolts made Emperor after Emperor conscious of this, and Imperial policy became little more than the protection of Trantor's delicate jugular vein..."
However, I do remember in one of the later books Asimov states this is an "urban legend". A character in the book quips about the fleet of ships bringing in all the food something along the lines "and the story is made better if the ships haul in the food and haul out the crap." In the later foundation book it's revealed Trantor is reasonably self sufficient in food production, producing large amounts of algae in caves were are processed into food. Anyway, an addition to the w/u if someone wants to track the quotes down. Mindme (talk) 14:12, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Trantor's food needs

message: Put in multiple references. Mindme (talk) 18:39, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove no ref tag 

message: I think the reference to the TikToks (among others) should be more clearly labelled as being from the second Foundation Trilogy, since it is NOT written by Asimov himself.
(Note: I don't know how the second trilogy is treated with regard to being canon, and I admit I didn't like it. I thought it didn't fit in, especially the idea about robots in a world that doesn't know the word robot. That's why I think this should be clarified.)--Cyberman TM (talk) 05:34, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Food Production/Tik Toks/second Foundation trilogy - should be clearly labelled.