Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Plain of Rars, bounded on the South side by the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains. According to the dying words of Prak, written here in letters of fire, is God's Final Message to His Creation. In , Arthur and Fenchurch journey here, and do indeed see the Message, and also discover there Marvin the Paranoid Android, who by that point is thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself. Argabuthon is a technologically advanced planet whose perspex Sceptre of Justice turned out to be part of the key to the Wikkit Gate. It is also the home of Prak, a man placed into
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) the other characters. He made this character an alien and, remembering an idea he supposedly had had while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria in 1971, decided that this character would be a "roving reporter" for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a pan-galactic encyclopaedia and travel guide. Recollections by his friends at the time indicate that Adams first spoke of the idea of "hitchhiking around the galaxy" while on holiday in Greece in 1973. As the first episode's writing progressed, the "Guide" became the central focus of his story, and Adams decided to base the whole series