12,028 GE

The 12,028th year of the Galactic Era is also the 41st before the Foundation Era. Hari Seldon helps remove Laskin Joranum from politics, using his adopted son Raych as a spy. R. Daneel Olivaw resigns his post as First Minister to Emperor Cleon I, leaving Trantor and then the Galactic Empire to the Moon of Earth, where he sets up a small settlement of robots before returning to Trantor secretly. Seldon becomes a candidate for First Minister.