Ford Perfect

Ford Prefect is an adventurous, eccentric, and existentialist Betelgeusian field researcher for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who travelled across the universe with Arthur Dent on many bizarre adventures, primarily as a crewman on the Heart of Gold and the Bistromath.The Betelgeusian who would come to be known as Ford Prefect was born on Betelgeuse V to his simultaneous father and uncle from Betelgeuse VII. He was named in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect that died out when Betelgeuse VII was destroyed, and so he could not pronounce it, causing his father and uncle to die of shame. As such, his friends called him "Ix", which in English translates to "boy who is not able satisfactorily to explain what a Hrung is or why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse VII". Over time, he developed a close bond with Zaphod Beeblebrox, his egotistical and curt two-headed semi-cousin.