the game loosely mirrors a portion of the series' plot, representing most of the events in the first book. arthur dent wakes up one day to find his house about to be destroyed by a construction crew to make way for a new bypass. his friend ford prefect, who is secretly an extraterrestrial, helps to calm arthur down and hitches them a ride on one of the ships in the approaching vogon constructor fleet, moments before the fleet destroys the earth to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.