12,029 GE

The 12,029th year of the Galactic Era is also the 40th before the Foundation Era. Calvinian positronic robots, led by R. Plussix, move to Trantor and find historical documents dating from era of Shoree-Harn as well as the sims Voltaire and Joan of Arc, before seeding the conversion of Sark into a New Renaissance world. The sims are sold to Yugo Amaryl who recovers them and gives them to Artifice Associates for use in a second debate on machine intelligence, as well as using them for psychohistory with Hari Seldon. Councilman Betan Lamurk campaigns against Seldon. Hari and Cleon use a damnatiomemoriae against the criminals of Trantor. After a failed assassination attempt, Hari and R. Dors Venabili flee trantor to escape Lamurk and his agents, to Panucopia, where another assassination is attempted on both of them. Fleeing once more to Sark, a New Renaissance World, they meet up with Daneel. The Junin sector debate goes into chaos when Joan and Voltaire fall in love, and escape into Trantor’s Mesh, meeting the Memes hiding there. Hari allies with the Memes to aid his return to Trantor and defeat of Lamurk through the Tiktok Revolts, and then accepts his position as First Minister. Daneel revives Lamurk. Hari purges the New Renaissance planets, or "chaos worlds", to simplify psychohistory and protect the Empire.