Megadodo Publications (The Guide Staff)
The greatest galactic publishing empire in known history. Sells more copies than the Encyclopedia Galactica because it is slightly cheaper and has the words DON'T PANIC written in large friendly letters on the cover.
Faction Dossier: Megadodo Publications
Megadodo Publications is headquartered in the perpetual sunny Saturday afternoon of Ursa Minor Beta. It is the publisher of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, an electronic book that has largely supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom.
Why The Guide Outsold the Encyclopedia
- It is slightly cheaper.
- It has the words DON'T PANIC written in large friendly letters on its cover.
- Where it is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate, and in cases of dispute between reality and the Guide, reality is usually invited to reconsider its position.
Field Researchers
Megadodo employs thousands of roaming interstellar hitchhikers who wander the spaceways armed with Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matics and towels, documenting strange bars, odd beverages, and indigenous lunacy.
The Galactic Imperial Presidency
Led by Zaphod Beeblebrox. The President's constitutional role is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from whoever actually does, by throwing outrageous parties and stealing starships.
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came. Responsible for cheerful sliding doors, Nutri-Matic tea dispensers, and Genuine People Personalities.