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 Empty Planet them a newspaper so they can quickly learn the human language. They reveal the strange image is a countdown. They demand the air and the sun, saying that if it is not given to them by the end of the countdown the human race will not return. Rani realises that they don't mean 'sun and air' but 'son and heir'. It turns out that Gavin's father was an alien king, who has now died. The robots have come to take Gavin to their planet and sent the news he is a prince in the energy trace, but Gavin never received