Ford Prefect

Ford Prefect (also called Ix) is a good friend of the an ordinary Earthman named Arthur Dent who knew him for several years and believed him to be "an out of work actor from the town of Guildford" in Surrey. Ford reinforced that impression by carrying around scripts of plays he is supposed to be auditioning for; when the Earth is about to be demolished, he finally throws these scripts away.) However, Ford is actually from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse, and had originally