

Akashics aren't like that, they are more like combat surgeons. Berzerkers might be scary as wild, unpredictable forces of destruction, but they are also easy to understand and thus defeat. Mind does not make them better combat monsters (though some factions specialize in Life, Forces, or whatever for that) but what it does is provide depth. Just Google it (or whatever your poison is) and do some reading. To understand why Mind is absolutely the best choice for the Akashic Brotherhood, you should look up and study the concept of "Mushin".

Also, others mentioned ignoring wound penalties but nobody talked about inflicting wound penalties - which can end an opponent without a single strike, and with no lasting damage. emotions & perceptions are really the foundation of a lot of people's fighting ability, and by having complete control over them you could set two enemies to fighting each other and just walk away without either of them realizing it until it's too late. Have you ever been in a fist fight, and then suddenly heard a gun shot go off behind you? Have you ever been talking to someone, wondering where it was you knew them from? Being able to completely control emotions during combat isn't something you should just gloss over. Could a search for Earth be a focal point of Season 2? Maybe.I know it's been mentioned before, but I think maybe you're underestimating the power in illusion. In Season 1 of the show, Salvor’s father mentions Earth in passing, indicating that at this point, people still aren’t sure it’s even real. To that point, in the novels, the character of Demerzel eventually appears on Earth (in the novel Foundation and Earth), previously believed to be a legend in the Foundation galaxy.
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Goyer told Inverse, that because Asimov’s books never actually “got to the end of the 1,000 years,” the series could, in a roundabout way, complete the entire story. When the show began, creator and showrunner David S. This could give Season 2 a more traditional structure, insofar as everyone might be concerned about the same thing at the same time. While Foundation Season 2 will first and foremost be focused on those two cliffhangers - the future of the Cleons, and Gaal’s and Salvor’s team-up - it almost certainly introduces the Mule. Much later in the novels, members of the super-secret “Second Foundation” (teased this season) all have this ability. In the Asimov universe, those who can use mindpowers to control others are called Mentalics. In the second Foundation novel - Foundation and Empire - the Mule is basically a mutant villain who disrupts the Seldon Plan through telepathy and ruthlessness. In one of her voiceovers at the start of the series, Gaal mentions various names, including “The Mule.” While we don’t see “the Mule” in Season 1 of Foundation, this character will almost certainly appear in some way, shape, or form in Season 2. Gaal (Lou Llobell) and Salvor (Leah Harvey) on the surface of Synnax in the Foundation finale. But, because Halima publicly asserts that the Cleon Emperors are literally soulless (because they’re clones), she becomes a political enemy of the Cleon Dynasty, Demerzel’s bosses. “I think she believes she's lived long enough to kind of find her humanity and, and hold on to that.”Įarlier in the season, it was revealed that despite her (secret) robotic nature, Demerzel is a believer in the religion known as “Luminism.” In the episode “The Missing Piece,” Demerzel is comforted by the religious leader Zephyr Halima (T’nia Miller) and told that despite being a robot, Demerzel does, indeed have a soul. “I think he will be around for a long time,” Birn tells Inverse. We’ve known Demerzel was a robot all season long, but the journey she’s been on is probably the one that will define Season 2 the most. Then, in a fit of guilt, rips off her own face, revealing her robot skull. One character who will certainly reappear in Foundation Season 2 is the near-immortal robot Demerzel (Laura Birn), who, in the Season 1 finale, follows her programming and murders a “defective” Cleon clone (Cassian Bilton). Demerzel (Larua Birn) gets her robot face out.
