6 Frogstar

The name "Frogstar" is a pun on the "Dog star", a common name for Sirius. In the original radio series, the Frogstar system does not exist and the Total Perspective Vortex is said to be located on "The Frogstar".

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6.1 Frogstar World A

Frogstar World A is the first planet of the Frogstar system and the home of the Frogstar fighters which take Zaphod Beeblebrox to Frogstar World B. Frogstar World A is an altogether more congenial place than Frogstar World B.

6.2 Frogstar World B

Frogstar World B is said to be "the most totally evil place in the galaxy". It is somewhat like the books' equivalent of Brontitall in the radio show; although there are differences between the two, they share some attributes. Although there is no statue of Arthur on Frogstar B, the bird people came about the same way; there is no archeologist called Lintilla in the part of the books that concerns itself with Frogstar B; however, the spaceport with the delayed spaceship is there.

Frogstar B is the home of the Total Perspective Vortex, a machine that effectively annihilates your soul by showing you in one instant the whole infinity of creation and yourself in relation to it.

According to the books, Frogstar World B is the future site of Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

6.3 Frogstar World C

Frogstar World C is the home planet of Gargravarr , the guardian of the Total Perspective Vortex. It is said to be a beautiful place with wonderful fishing opportunities.

7 Golgafrincham

Golgafrincham, home of the Great Circling Poets of Arium, decided it was time to rid itself of an entire useless third of its population, and so concocted a story that their planet would shortly be destroyed in some great catastrophe. The useless population (consisting of hairdresser s, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officer s, security guards, management consultants, telephone sanitizers and the like) were packed into the B-Ark, one of three giant Ark spaceships, and told that everyone else would follow shortly in the other two. The other two thirds of the population, of course, did not follow and "led full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone".

The B-Ark was programmed to crash-land on the first planet it came across, which happened to be Earth, and the Golgafrinchans gradually usurped the native cavemen, becoming the ancestors of humanity and thereby ruining the great experiment to find the question for the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

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8 Krikkit

The planet Krikkit is located in a dust cloud composed chiefly of the disintegrated remains of the enormous space-borne computer Hactar.

Due to the dust cloud, the sky above Krikkit is completely black, and thus the people of Krikkit lead insular lives and never realised the existence of the universe. With the population thus shaped, Hactar built a fake spaceship and crashed it into Krikkit in order to introduce them to the concept of other life. With subconscious help from Hactar, the people of Krikkit build their first space-ship Krikkit One, pierced the dust cloud that shrouded their world, and came face-to-face with the universe. Since the existence of other life did not fit into their world view, they built a spaceship fleet, horrible weapons, and numerous deadly robots, and they began to launch a massive war against the universe in order to rid it of life. The galaxy was initially taken by surprise, but eventually defeated Krikkit after a war that lasted about 2000 years and killed around two grillion people.

As punishment, Krikkit and its sun were sealed into an envelope in which time passed extremely slowly. The envelope was to reopen long in the future, when the rest of creation had died away, so that Krikkit could live out the remainder of the universe's life in the manner they wished.

However, a Krikkit spaceship carrying many of the deadly white robots used in the war escaped before the envelope was sealed and attempted to retrieve the Wikkit Gate (a key that could unlock the envelope, composed of a Perspex Pillar (" Plastic Pillar" in the American version), a Wooden Pillar, a Steel Pillar, a Silver Bail, and a Golden Bail.) The ship and the gate were thought to have been destroyed, but in fact were merely spread across time.

The robots on the spaceship managed to reopen the envelope, but Arthur, Slartibartfast, Trillian, and Ford Prefect were able to postpone the detonation of the supernova bomb (which would have linked the heart of every major star in the universe, thus ending it) by the Krikkiters long enough for Trillian and Arthur to talk to Hactar, whose influence over the Krikkiters had lead them to become such xenophobes and who had designed and built the supernova bomb, and disperse his consciousness.

The Krikkiters managed to leave other marks besides the destruction of numerous worlds; due to racial memories, the Earth sport of cricket was based on the Krikkit Wars.

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9 Magrathea

Magrathea is a planet whose inhabitants built customized planets for tremendous amounts of money, making Magrathea one of the wealthiest planets in the galaxy. But when the great galactic stock market crash occurred, the Magratheans went into hibernation awaiting the recovery of the economy to the point where their services could once again be afforded. They were later awoken by pan-dimensional beings who had a special order for them; they commissioned the construction of a planet-sized computer named Earth to determine the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, which is required to understand the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

One of the chief Magrathean planet designers was called Slartibartfast, and he designed the coastline of Norway. (He enjoyed doing the crinkly bits and fjords.)

In the radio series and TV series, Magrathea is the location of Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

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10 Milliways

Milliways, also known as the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, can only be visited by time travel, as it exists at the end of time. One of its major attractions is that diners can watch the universe end around them as they eat. The restaurant's bill can be paid by depositing a penny in any bank account of the present time: by the end of the universe, compound interest will be enough to pay the extremely high bill. This is, of course, impossible.

In the book form of the series, the visit to Milliways takes place in book two, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

In the different versions of the story, Milliways is built on the ruins of either Magrathea or of Frogstar World B .

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11 NowWhat

The planet NowWhat is physically largely the same as Earth, in that it has the same continents, location in space/time, etc. The difference is its location along an axis of probability. It is a fairly depressing place. The main town is called OhWell. The only major animal to survive (the others all having died of despair) is the NowWhattian boghog, whose only method of communication is biting very hard on the thigh. Mostly Harmless describes it thus:

The main trade that was carried out was in the skins of the NowWhattian boghog but it wasn't a very successful one because no one in their right minds would want to buy a NowWhattian boghog skin. The trade only hung on by its fingernails because there was always a significant number of people in the Galaxy who were not in their right minds.

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12 Ursa Minor Beta

The rich and sunny planet Ursa Minor Beta has the quite peculiar property that most of its surface consists of subtropic coastline. Even more peculiar, on this world it's always Saturday afternoon. Light City, the only city on Ursa Minor Beta, which can only be reached by plane, is the very place where the editorial offices of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" reside.

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13 External links

• BBC H2G2: Golgafrincham

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