The Stepchildren Case
Komov's and Shinoda's theories sparked much discussion but this was ended abruptly as Boris Fokin informed the Council that the egg cells had self-activated and started evolving to embryos. In the next three days the Council decided the best way to raise the foundlings.
In the end, when a completed plan of their upbringing, as well as secret observation and study of them was finished, Rudolf Sikorski, as the chief of COMCON-2 demanded four things:
- All information on the foundlings was to be classified
- None of them is supposed to know of their true origin
- All foundlings are to be separated immediately after birth
- All of them should later get extraterrestrial jobs to make their return to Earth as difficult as possible
"Sikorski's Four Demands" were accepted despite a strong opposition of the minority and mostly because of the support of the psychologists and, personally, Masahiro Shinoda.
Later that year (2138) after a cautious intelligence exchange, all diplomatic relationships between Tagora and Earth were cancelled. It was revealed that Tagorians found an identical "Sarcophagus" on their planet but decided to destroy it rather than activate the larvae stored within it.
In 2139, after the Sarcophagus was transferred to Earth, scientists found a small box containing 13 small discs with different symbols on them.
Read more about this topic: Foundlings (Noon Universe)
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