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
Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy member of the Alpha Centauri system. The first novel points out that it is four light years from Earth's solar system to Alpha Proxima, whilst Damogran is five hundred thousand light years away. The Altairian dollar is one of three freely convertible currencies in the galaxy, though by the time of the novels it had apparently recently collapsed. The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" advertises itself as the best resource for those who wish "to see the galaxy for less than thirty Altairian dollars a day". According to the Hitchhiker's Guide TV series, one Altairian "long way" is equal to