"He saved the Empire in its infancy. When His Majesty the Emperor was struggling against the Dark Side, it was he—the wise chancellor of a generation, Hari Seldon—who stepped forward. With his wisdom and foresight, he set the Empire, on the verge of collapse, back on course and guided it through its most difficult days. He refused the Immortality bestowed by His Majesty the Emperor. At his funeral, His Majesty the Emperor personally appeared and paid his respects. He was the only one ever granted such an honor." —Conclusion of The Founder of the Fourth Empire: A Biography of Hari Seldon.
Onstage, Hari Seldon spoke with tireless eloquence. Below the stage, Daphne Clement, one of the first to be awakened and the current Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Dawn, nodded repeatedly, immensely gratified by the performance of this rapidly rising young man.
She was already nearing sixty. She had witnessed the Fourth Civilization grow step by step from nothing, and she understood that her abilities were limited. She could no longer keep pace with the rapidly developing Kingdom of Dawn. Just like Francis Underwood, the former prime minister who had already retired, this era no longer belonged to them.
Yet she still had one final mission—to plant a brilliant seed for the future of the Fourth Civilization, shield it from wind and rain, water and nurture it, until it took root and sprouted into a towering pillar supporting the Fourth Civilization.
And that person was Hari Seldon, personally chosen by Tang Xiao as the next-generation political core of the Fourth Civilization.
In response to the large-scale eruption of liberal thought and the increasingly obvious organizational tendencies displayed by the Rebel Alliance, most of the New Deal proposal put forward by the Kingdom of Dawn Prime Minister's Office had been