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  Terminus (planet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Terminus is a fictional planet at the edge of the Galaxy in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, capital of the Foundation.
It was the sole planet orbiting its isolated star and had almost no metals in the surface rocks(although, as a habitable planet, it presumably had a nickel-iron core to produce a protective magnetic field).
It lay on the edge of the Galaxy that was opposite the planet Siwenna.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terminus_(Planet)   (458 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Galactica - Terminus
The small size of Terminus' nickel-iron core has slowed the process of plate tectonics on its surface, with the result that, despite its age, 93% of its surface area is covered with water.
Terminus City, the original settlement, was built along the standardized lines of all Imperial colony cities.
It was not until 209 FE that Terminus' economy attained production levels comparable to the prewar era, and the memory of the Grand Depression (as it became known) cast a shadow over the lives of a whole generation.
www.asimovonline.com /oldsite/EG_Terminus.html   (5225 words)

  
 Stars and Planets
Planet in the Sayshell Sector, 10 parsecs from Sayshell Planet.
The only planet of an isolated sun at the fringe of the Galactic spiral to which the Seldon Project was exiled in order to work upon the Encyclopedia Galactica.
Planet to which 50 members of the Second Foundation, including Pelleas Anthor, were exiled in 378FE.
home.arcor.de /unitedstars/the_planets.htm   (2609 words)

  
 Terminex race (Terminus, Termini, Thor story)
Terminus himself created a second batch of stage 1 Termini, which he left to gestate in a Deviant section of Subterranea.
At the same time, Terminus himself returned to Earth and fought the other stage 4--which was also referred to as the Spawn of Terminus, the son of Terminus, the false Terminus, the Termini-creature, a Stage-Four Terminoid.
Terminus has since appeared, it it remains to be determined whether it is the stage 5 version, having returned to his original appearance, or some other explanation.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/terminexrace.htm   (1838 words)

  
 Terminus (Fantastic Four, Avengers foe)
Terminus was that which the long-dead Terminex had intended the Termini to be: a metal monstrosity imbued with an inbred hatred of the Celestials and all their works.
Terminus fled Earth in fear, unaware that it had been a bluff (it was not a true Ultimate Nullifier).
Starfox hurled Hercules towards Terminus neck, and the Olympian's fists punched whole is his armor, then he proceeded to rip the armor open throughout the length of the torso.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/terminus.htm   (3739 words)

  
 Marvel Heroes Classic Roleplaying Game - Marvel RPG
Terminus is known to have plundered roughly a thousand planets, rendering them all uninhabitable in the process.
Terminus took the alien scientist as his personal slave, using him as a guide to other planets to plunder.
Terminus was attacked in Pangea by the team of superhuman champions known as the Avengers.
www.classicmarvel.com /cast/terminus.htm   (806 words)

  
 Terminus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the depths of Terminus, Nyssa, her pleas ignored, is given sackcloth to wear and is flung into a crowded, cramped room with the other milling, hopeless Lazars.
With proper controls, Terminus could become a real hospital; as it is now, those who leave cured of the Lazar disease may end up suffering from other, radiation-induced sicknesses for the rest of their lives.
Terminus quakes as the computer prepares to jettison the engine, but the Garm exerts all his strength in an agonising effort to return the control lever to its starting position.
www.drwhoguide.com /who_6g.htm   (4115 words)

  
 Terminus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Terminus (Planet), the home planet of the Foundation in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
Terminus (poem) is a poem written by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Terminus (comics), is a fictional comic book character in the Marvel Universe
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terminus   (144 words)

  
 FOUNDATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Terminus was mapped by Empire's unmanned scout ships (see the attached photo) but remained uninhabited (mostly due to scarcity of metals on the planet) until it was turned into a home for the Foundation.
First settlement on Terminus, (later known as Terminus City or simply Terminus) was built by machines and designed to remind the steel structures of Trantor.
Terminus City was established on one of these small continents to house scientists involved in the work on the first edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica and their families.
www.slawcio.com /foundation/fundatio.html   (900 words)

  
 Silver Surfer Volume 1 #23-25
As Terminus let loose a beam of cosmic energy towards the band, the Scarlet Witch made a series of gestures, and a kind of lens appeared between the mutants and the alien.
Terminus, though startled by the impact, had the presence of mind to stop the ship before the Surfer was thrown out.
Terminus reached down and grabbed the Surfer roughly, clenching him in one hand as he climbed back to a higher deck.
marvelite.prohosting.com /surfer/fanfic/cpu/issue50/ssv1_23-25.html   (3991 words)

  
 Villains of Marvel Comics: Terminus!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Terminus was originally a vicious entrepreneur, bent on ignoring squatter's rights aplenty by claiming any suitable planet's resources, materials and inhabitants as his own.
Terminus "reproduces" via genetic material that converts organic hosts into metal; these things tend to rampage before merging into another Terminus (or "Termini") which he absorbed to grow even bigger.
Terminus himself loudly (and repeatedly) considered humans to be specks or bugs -- even superbeings, who take that kind of thing personally.
www.geocities.com /marvel_villain/terminus/terminus.html   (593 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Galactica - Galactography - Worlds Terminus
Located 50,000 parsecs from Trantor, between Anacreon (50 light years away) and Smyrno, it is described as a planet poor in resources, particularly mineral resources, and of negligible economic value.
A mild planet with a high water/land ratio.
Terminus holds the distinction of being the furthest inhabited planet from the central fl hole.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Dimension/1136/galactography/worlds7.html   (216 words)

  
 STAR WARS: THE PADAWAN BRIGADE
Drighton's Terminus is a remote section of space, about as far away from the Republic as you can get.
The main reason behind the isolated nature of the region is because of the colorful and impressive nebula that forms the backdrop of the sector.
The planet is covered in an unusual goo like substance ranging anywhere from several inches deep to several feet.
www.isomedia.com /homes/tonyc/swrpg/padawan/planets/planets.htm   (822 words)

  
 Planet Mars
It suggests that the planet must be composed largely of silicate materials.
The southern highland of Mars is somewhat similar to the heavily cratered terrain of Mercury or the highlands on the Moon, where craters of all sizes and shapes dominate the landscape.
This is probably due to: (a) availability of asteroids and meteorites decreases as a planet becomes farther away from the Sun, and (b) subsequent geological processes on Mars such as hydro-processes, aeolian processes and volcanism have significantly destroyed the earlier impact history of the planet.
hercules.geology.uiuc.edu /~hsui/classes/geo116/lectures/mars.html   (3199 words)

  
 TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 3. Travel: Lonelier Planet. Wen Stephenson.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I was in Bombay on January 17, 1991, sitting in the Indian Airlines office in the financial district, when I heard the first rumors of bombs falling on Baghdad.
When I arrived at Victoria Terminus, that relic of old British Bombay, to meet my friend, it was like something out of David Lean.
The central hangout in Dali was Jim's Peace Café, where enlightened Westerners could eat muesli with yogurt and fruit for breakfast and linger for hours inhaling precious American tobacco smoke (Marlboro being a valuable currency and an ostentatious status symbol among the Chinese).
www.prospect.org /print/V13/3/stephenson-w.html   (2113 words)

  
 Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nouveau Paris -The capital planet of the PRH.
Single habitable planet in Trevor's Star System and one of the heaviest heavy-grav planets ever settled.
Previously an independent colony, San Martin was invaded by the PRH until it’s liberation in the middle stages of the war.
www.movie-trailers.com /weber/Honorpedia/World/Systems/systems.html   (1813 words)

  
 Planet Half-Life: Features - Interviews - The Trenches Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Terminus: My name is Ian Edd, more known to the community as Terminus.
Terminus: Well, it basically started as a sort of want to move away from the clichéd games of the time (The joint-venture formed in December of 2000).
Terminus: It has always been a non-issue in my opinion, but I don't think we have ever really paid it much heed.
www.planethalflife.com /features/interviews/trenches   (1383 words)

  
 Planet Half-Life: Features - Interviews - The Trenches Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Terminus: Lets just say, aside from other things: Isaac and Louis will be very happy on the inclusion of their little children.
I feel that the Source Engine, while beautiful in the graphics and sound departments, still has a bit of a way to go before it has the polish in the mechanics and stability departments of goldsource.
Terminus: Honestly, the work has gotten more professional as more professional people have joined the team and we have simply learned more in general.
www.planethalflife.com /features/interviews/trenches/page2.shtm   (1500 words)

  
 Classic Sci-Fi Reviews: Foundation
He is the proponent of a science dubbed "psychohistory" that uses psychology and statistics to predict the future.
He and his staff are exiled to a remote planet at the edge of the galaxy.
Provinces of the Empire break apart into their own little kingdoms, and the ones surrounding the Foundation's planet Terminus cast greedy eyes at the Foundation's land and still-running atomic power.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue71/classic.html   (446 words)

  
 Doctor Who: Phoenix
Terminus is far too important to allow to fall into anyone else's hands, and we've already had to repulse two such attempts in the past.
With Terminus no longer in his control, he decides to "cut his losses" and escape, using a mind-controlled Gairlek as a hostage.
There are a large number of soldiers with hands on their heads, a large pile of weapons, and a number of recently liberated Terminus Security personnel with weapons trained on the invaders.
users.rcn.com /detroyes/teotp/fiction/phxscript.html   (12746 words)

  
 Jumping Off The Planet
Even if you could build Terminus on the mountaintop, you’d still have to extend the elevators down to the foothills anyway; you’d have to build a second Terminus.
Terminus might take a beating, they did last time, but nothing that couldn’t be set right in a few weeks of regular repair duty.”
There was a big vertical display behind her, showing the progress of all of the cars between Terminus and One-Hour.
www.gerrold.com /dingilliad-1/page.htm   (7498 words)

  
 Paul Gadzikowski - This Time Round
She looked at the far wall; it was missing the smear of which she had always wondered whether it weren't someone who hadn't been strapped down properly when the timewarp kicked in.
The interior door opened and they were joined at the scanner screen by a slender figure with a mop of fl hair in a bowl haircut, and an hourglass-shaped figure in tight skimpy clothes.
For a moment it looked like the jettison had altered the ship's course enough that the planet would be safe after all.
www.iglou.com /members/scarfman/round21.htm   (1077 words)

  
 Morgana Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The planet of Morgana and its factions declares war on the factions of Victory and Relic, and in doing so rename their planet Unity.
Planet Morgana Prime is soon rediscovered, and commanders from both empires move to it, creating the factions Argus, Brinell, Dulcinea, and Gronor, in honor of the original factions.
Terminus and Mr.Black do not have the right to claim the resources as their own.
www.webpageless.net /othersites/morganatimes   (2593 words)

  
 Doctor Who Chronology: Prehistory
Terminus is thrown forward through time billions of years and comes to rest in the center of the Universe.
Their ship is caught in a warp ellipse and reaches a new planet every seventy years, when one of the mutants can transmat down to the planet, seeking help.
A "neutron bomb" irradiates most of the planet, and a group of Daleks move into their metal City; the Thals take up new lives as farmers.
www.islandnet.com /~dascott/prehistory.htm   (3990 words)

  
 The Padawan Brigade Game Logs - volume one   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Jedi are on Rilliadon, a backwater world isolated from the rest of the Republic, to investigate a mysterious radio message from the natives.
The team is on the planet for mere seconds before everything falls apart - the Dilgan assassinate the Jedi, forcing the Padawans to run away.
A brief battle and skirmish on the planet repulses the invaders, with the Padawans at the front lines.
www.the-chaos-crew.com /swrpg/logs/log1.htm   (1765 words)

  
 4Literature || Isaac Asimov's Robot-Empire-Foundation Series
The rigid and bureaucratic empire undergoes a decline reminiscent of the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
The plague is a result of a virulent mutation of certain nanoorganisms used for the terraformation of Spacer planets.
Terminus begins to provide scientific support for the neighbouring kingdoms, balancing their powers.
www.4literature.net /story/2003/1/21/94638/5941   (5165 words)

  
 Movie Info for Doctor Who: Terminus, Episode 3 on MSN Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the third episode of the four-part story "Terminus," young Turlough (Mark Strickson), acting on orders from the Black Guardian (Valentine Dyall), has locked the TARDIS into the flight pattern of a space stration peopled by victims of the dreaded Lazar's Disease.
The Doctor (Peter Davison) tries to deal with this contingency, as well as a greater danger: An unstable thrust engine which may explode at any minute -- thereby destroying the entire Universe.
First telecast on February 23, 1983, "Terminus, Episode 3" was written by Stephen Gallagher.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=106694   (2404 words)

  
 Mumbai Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The CST or Victoria Terminus (VT) as it is still refered to is worth a visit whether you're catching a train or not.
It was designed by Frederick Stevens as the headquarters of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company and was completed in 1887, 34 years after the first train in India left this site on its way to nearby Thana.
In 1998 the station was officially renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), but it's still better known locally as 'VT'.
lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/india/mumbai?poi=116359   (224 words)

  
 Port Maw: Forums / Tactics, Strategies and Battle Reports / Planet Killer / Terminus Est   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Terminus Est is very vulnerable against Torpedo waves, as it's special turrets don't work against them.
Planet killer can't use come to new heading anyway - its too big for it...
Strange as it may seem i also THINK it shouldn't be able to use burn retros either (its physically huge) but theres no rule to say it can't, so who am i to argue.
www.one-end.com /port-maw/forum_viewtopic.php?16.60   (742 words)

  
 Silver Surfer Volume 1, Issue #26 by Matt Hamilton
From within the bowels of his enormous craft, Terminus monitored the movements of his newly acquired guide.
As the Silver Surfer readied himself to leave, Terminus had contacted a dozen thousand other members of his species, all with power equal to his.
Terminus knew what had happened, but cared little.
marvelite.prohosting.com /surfer/fanfic/volume1/text26.html   (1595 words)

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