Reading Isaac Azimov's Foundation trilogy

Opening blurb explaining the second book - Foundation and Empire; Someday mankind will spread into the Milky Way. And there, among a million worlds, Earthmen and aliens will group into a vast community-seething with old lusts and new passions.
This story takes you into that far future, where the Galactic Empire, crumbling into anarchy, grapples with the spirited Foundation as it strives for order amidst the chaos of the stars-two mighty movements clashing over the destiny of the universe!