[Noon Universe] In the Noon Universe created by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the foundlings are a group of 13 humans, who evolved out of the embryos stored in the `sarcophagus`. The embryos were discovered on December 26, 2137 by Boris Fokin`s group of explorers on an unnamed planet in star system EN-9173. These events are described in the ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundlings_(Noon_Universe)