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
Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or updating the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" itself. The name is a reference to the ether, which was once believed to be a medium filling the universe. The Total Perspective Vortex is allegedly the most horrible torture device to which a sentient being can be subjected. Located on Frogstar World B, the machine was originally invented by Trin Tragula in order to annoy his wife. Because she was forever nagging him for having no sense of proportion, he decided to invent something that would show her what having a sense of proportion really meant. Unfortunately the shock of being