This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . The series is set in a fictionalised version of our Milky Way galaxy and thus, while most locations are pure invention, many are based on "real world" settings such as Alpha Centauri or Barnard's Star.
The Galaxy
"The Galaxy" is our home galaxy, the Milky Way, though it is referred to exclusively as "the Galaxy" in the series. Apart from a very brief moment during the first radio series, when the main characters were transported outside the galactic plane into a battle with Haggunenons, and a moment when one of Arthur's careless remarks is sent inadvertently though a wormhole into "a distant galaxy", the Galaxy provides the setting for every event within the series. It is home to thousands of sentient races, some of whom have achieved interstellar capability, creating a vast network of trade, military and political links. To the technologically advanced inhabitants of the Galaxy, a small, insignificant world such as Earth is considered invariably primitive and backward. The Galaxy appears, at least nominally, to be a single state, with a unified government "run" by an appointed President. Its immensely powerful and monumentally callous civil service is run out of the Megabrantis Cluster, mainly by the Vogons.
A "former Galactic Empire" is mentioned in several adaptations of the series. By the time set in the Hitchhiker's series, the government of the Galaxy is referred to as the "Imperial Galactic Government", though it is further explained that "the term is kept, though it is now an anachronism." In the television adaptation of the series, the name Imperatala Galacticon is used in one graphic as an alternate name for the previous Galactic Empire.
In the novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the fit the third of the radio series, the empire is described as being known 5 million years ago for its richness, wildness and lack of taxes. People were described as daring "to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before". However, the craving for luxury custom-made planets among the Galaxy's mercantile elite led to the planet Magrathea gaining control of most if its wealth, which led to a financial Dark Age.
In the novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe and fit the twelfth of the radio series, it is established that by the present day setting of the various series, the real imperial rule has been long since abolished. It is explained that when the last Galactic Emperor was just about to die, he was put under a stasis field of static electricity, keeping his body perpetually alive in a coma. Over time, all the emperor's heirs died and the Galactic Empire shifted from monarchy to democracy, with the galactic assembly of the imperial advisors switching from privy council to administration, with the head of the council becoming President of the Galaxy.
Thus it is further explained that since the shift to democracy brought an end to the previous absolutism, this meant there was a chance the head of state wasn't just not in full power but not in power at all. And so the President of the Galaxy became an extreme figurehead; a celebrity, but someone who could reasonably be in power. Thus the president and the entire executive branch's purpose is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. But only a handful of people know this fact, and only six of them know who actually wields power.
The current President of the Galaxy when the series begins is Zaphod Beeblebrox. Zaphod, along with Yooden Vranx, Roosta and Zarniwoop, found out how little power the president wields, and set out on a complex journey to find the real ruler of both the Imperial Galactic Government and in fact the entire universe. Their mission, which ends in the novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, culminates in the discovery that power is actually wielded more or less entirely by a man in a shack. His extreme lack of desire to be a ruler of anything, so reasoned the old imperial government, allowed him to not be distracted by desire or eagerness and made him perfect to be ruler. Zarniwoop is crestfallen.
North West ripple
Relative to life on NowWhat, living on an affluent world in the North West ripple of the Galaxy is said to be easier by a factor of about seventeen million.
Outer Eastern Rim
The Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy where the Guide has supplanted the Encyclopedia Galactica among its more relaxed civilisations, and where in Mostly Harmless Arthur Dent heads for "wisdom and truth were to be found" and goes to Hawalius.
Western Spiral Arm
In the radio series, the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy reports that 'the wheel is economically unviable', and in the "uncharted backwaters of unfashionable end", the 'planet' Earth is found.
Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha is a galactic sector containing Earth, Barnard's Star, and probably other nearby systems. The "Plural" designation may indicate probability problems; after Fenchurch disappeared during a hyperspace jump, it was pointed out to Arthur Dent that the small print advised against hyperspace travel for inhabitants of Plural sectors.
Galactic Sector QQ7 Active J Gamma
Galactic Sector QQ7 Active J Gamma contains the Sun Zarss, the planet Preliumtarn of the famed Sevorbeupstry and Quentulus Quazgar Mountains. In Life, the Universe and Everything and So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish .
Star systems
Aldebaran
Aldebaran is a giant star in the constellation of Taurus. Max Quordlepleen claims that the only thing left after the end of the universe will be the sweets trolley and a fine selection of Aldebaran liqueurs. It is described as "great, OK," in a song protesting teleportation, and has fine wines that are on the Heart of Gold.
Algol
Algol is an eclipsing binary star in the constellation of Perseus. It is the home of the Algolian Suntiger, the tooth of which is one of the ingredients of the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Before being placed into the Total Perspective Vortex, Zaphod Beeblebrox wished for Algolian Claret, an alcoholic drink presumably created by the gray humanoid species inhabiting the planet. Despite Zaphod's apparent affinity for this drink, Algolian cuisine is equally noted for its unpleasantness. The Algolian Zylatburger is one such case. As related by Ford Prefect, "They're a kind of meatburger made from the most unpleasant parts of a creature well-known for its total lack of any pleasant parts." It is briefly mentioned as pretty neat in a song protesting teleportation.
Alpha Centauri
Apart from being the closest star system to Earth's, (4.1 light-years northwest of earth) Alpha Centauri is home to both small furry creatures and a local planning department office of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. It has a rough, bumpy surface and sixteen cities (the fifteenth one is one of the best places to buy a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster), and is also inhabited by super-intelligent lizard squirrels. Its main spaceport, Port Brasta , has a massive duty-free shopping mall, the motto of which is, "be like the twenty-second elephant with heated value in space -- bark!" This slogan contains an ingenious pun in Centaurian that the natives find hilarious.
Alpha Proxima
The smallest (and closest to Earth) member of the Alpha Centauri system. The first novel points out that it's four light years from Earth's solar system to Alpha Proxima, whilst Damogran is five hundred thousand light years away.
Altair
Altair is a blue star in the constellation of Aquila. The Altairian dollar is the main freely convertible currency in the galaxy, though it had collapsed in value by the time of the novels. The other major currencies in the galaxy are the Flanian pobble bead and the Triganic Pu. However, the Flanian pobble bead cannot be exchanged and the Triganic pu is only exchangeable for ningis, which are 6800 miles across. According to the Hitchhiker's Guide TV series, one Altairian "long way" is equal to 37 Earth miles.
Antares
Antares is a red supergiant star in the constellation of Scorpius. In the first book, the guide relates smuggling Antarean parakeet glands, a notably unpleasant analogue of an olive in a typical cocktail.
Arcturus
The red giant star Arcturus is home to the great Arcturan megafreighters, automated cargo carriers that transport vast quantities of goods between star systems. So large that they eclipse a planet's sun when in orbit, they are supposedly impregnable, though Zaphod Beeblebrox somehow managed it as a child. Former galactic president Yooden Vranx was a one-time megafreighter captain. Arcturus is also home to a staggering array of oversized and often deadly megafauna, from the Arcturan Megaleech to the Arcturan Megavoidwhale, Arcturan megagnat to the Arcturan megaelephant and megapuppy, as well as the megacamel, well known by the turn of phrase "ones soul moves at the speed of an Arcturan megacamel", presumably the reason for distilling Arcturan Mega-gin.
Barnard's Star
A red dwarf star only six lig
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