Saula (fictional planet) Saula (fictional planet) Saula is a fictional planet described in ""An Attempt to Escape" ("Попытка к бегству")" by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. This planet is a part of the so-called Noon Universe and presents a world in an early feudalistic stage (opposite to e.g. late feudalism of Arkanar). The planet was named after Saul (Savel) Repnin, one of the space explorers who discovered it in 2141 AD. Saula is the second planet (out of four) of EN-7031 solar system, about one and a half times further from its sun than Earth is from ours. The day and night cycle on
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Hexagonal Phases nods to the radio series such as a reference to Brontitall and the bird people from the Secondary Phase that were never put into the novels. The episode opens with a Grebulon spaceship suffering an accident, and losing nearly all records of what it is and what it should be doing, along with the crew's memories of why. Based on what little remains of their orders, they land on the tenth planet from the Sun, and start to 'monitor' Earth. After a year's travelling Arthur has returned to the co-ordinates ZZ9 plural Z alpha—where he is expecting to find Earth,