Smyrno

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In Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series, Smyrno is a planet, capital of the Smyrno Prefect in the Anacreon Province. It was one of four prefects in the Anacreon Province that rebelled against the Galactic Empire c.50 F.E. The planet itself is located 50 parsecs (163 light years) from Terminus.

Hober Mallow, one of the major characters from the Foundation Series, was a Smyrnian. In Mallow's time, most Smyrnians preferred short jackets.

The planet's name is an obvious parallel with Smyrna, a remote but important city of the Roman Empire, consistent with the Roman Empire-Galactic Empire parallelism of the Foundation trilogy.

In Greg Bear's novel Foundation and Chaos (the second book of the Foundation and Robots trilogy), Smyrno is described as hot and dry, the rooms smell of sulphur, and people live underground.

Major and minor planets featured in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
Anacreon | Aurora | Baley's World (Comporellon) | Earth | Gaia | Helicon | Kalgan | Korell | Delicass (Neotrantor) | Sayshell | Solaria | Siwenna | Tazenda | Terminus | Trantor (Hame)