Hugo Crast

**Hugo Crast** is a character in the Apple TV+ series *Foundation*. Hugo is from Thespis and is a trader, operating the ship *Beggar's Lament*. He is portrayed by Daniel MacPherson, first appearing in the episode "The Mathematician's Ghost".

## Biography

### Terminus

Hugo Crast, born Cian un Edan is a trader who delivers supplies to the Foundation on Terminus using his starship, the *Beggar's Lament*. He is Salvor Hardin's love interest and is nearly 70 years old due to a period of cryosleeping between ports. He was born on Thespis, and is considered to be "blood-neutral" which was an advantage when trading at Anacreon ports.

When the Anacreons try to sneak in to Terminus, Hugo is present at the Foundation meeting to discuss a plan. He is aware the Anacreon craft are attack corvettes and warns the rest of the committee as such. When Salvore says Hugo should leave as the Anacreon's are going to attack, and Hugo opts to stay. He asks Salvor if she will go with him but she says she has to stay to protect the citizens.

An Anacreon - Phara Keaen - is captured by Salvor and Hugo assists her in the interrogation. From this, they establish Phara is Grand Huntress of Anacreon. After Salvor has a vision where she sees the ghost of a boy she had seen before, Hugo reassures her that he has faith in her. He helps Salvor with the defense of Terminus and offers to leave to get help, but is told he would be shot out of the sky before he reached orbit. Hugo therefore stays, saying he does not regret not leaving the planet before the attack started.

Phara is able to disable the fence protecting Terminus City and the Anacreon forces attack. Hugo joins the battle to defend the citizens of the Foundation. Alongside Salvor and her father, Abbas, Hugo takes the fight to the Anacreons by targeting their corvettes.

### The Invictus

After the attack on the corvettes, Hugo and the rest of the Foundation have to contend with the Anacreons taking over Terminus City. Hugo takes the fight to the Anacreons, but in the end is defeated along with the rest of the citizens. He is taken prisoner along with select other citizens of the Foundation and boards his ship - *The Beggar's Lament* - along with Anacreon forces. In order to save Salvor’s life, he slaves his ship to her making both of them indispensable - the ship will only respond to her, and Hugo has to be there to help.

The crew of *The Beggar's Lament* must board The *Invictus* and do so through a jump in space suits. During this, Hugo misses the jump and floats away. He is able to make it to a communications station where he contacts Thespin forces and calls for help.

Thespins come to help but are sucked into the jump along with The *Invictus*, and Hugo is reunited with Salvor above Terminus.

### Legacy

One hundred and thirty-eight years later, the Mentalic Loron used his powers to trick Salvor Hardin into believing he was Hugo Crast when she crashlanded on Ignis. Drawing on the memories of Hugo from her mind, he appeared to her as Hugo. He claimed that, since the *Beggar's Lament* was still genetically encoded to him, it kept him informed of Salvor's movements. When she went into cryosleep, and with nothing left on Terminus, Hugo followed suit and set his own cryopod to synch up with the systems on the *Beggar*. Salvor believed the ruse, but Hari Seldon was suspicious enough to want further confirmation. Loron later used Hugo's image during a fight with Salvor in an effort to distract her during the confrontation.

## Appearances

* Season One
	+ "The Mathematician's Ghost"
	+ "Barbarians at the Gate"
	+ "Upon Awakening"
	+ "Death and the Maiden"
	+ "Mysteries and Martyrs"
	+ "The Missing Piece"
	+ "The First Crisis"
* Season Two
	+ "The Sighted and the Seen" (as a mental projection)
	+ "Long Ago, Not Far Away" (as a mental projection)

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Missing Piece"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "The Mathematician's Ghost"
3. ↑ "Barbarians at the Gate"
4. ↑ "Upon Awakening"
5. ↑ "Death and the Maiden"
6. ↑ ”Death and the Maiden”
7. ↑ ”[[Mysteries and Martyrs”
8. ↑ ”The Missing Piece”
9. ↑ ”The First Crisis”
10. ↑ "The Sighted and the Seen"
11. ↑ "Long Ago, Not Far Away"