Comporellon is a planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. It orbits the star that is known today as Epsilon Eridani.
This planet was supposedly known originally as Baleyworld, and later Benbally World, after its founder Bentley Baley, son of Elijah Baley. The original human settlement on the planet was Baley Town. Baleyworld was the oldest non-Spacer world in the Galaxy, aside from Earth. After nearly 20 millennia, when the Foundation expanded...
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Comporellon is a planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series. It orbits the star that is known today as Epsilon Eridani.
This planet was supposedly known originally as Baleyworld, and later Benbally World, after its founder Bentley Baley, son of Elijah Baley. The original human settlement on the planet was Baley Town. Baleyworld was the oldest non-Spacer world in the Galaxy, aside from Earth. After nearly 20 millennia, when the Foundation expanded its influence to a third of the Galaxy, Comporellon considered itself an associated power.
The climate on Comporellon is a very cold one and most cities, including the capital in the northern hemisphere, are underground. At the time that Golan Trevize, Blissenobiarella, and Janov Pelorat visited Comporellon, the cultural style was to wear black, grey, white, or any combination thereof. Comporellon was very suspicious of outsiders, and very nationalistic. Its government made an effort to steal the ship that Trevize, Pelorat, and Bliss were...
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