If a player in Starship Titanic mentions characters or quotations from the Hitchhiker's Guide series, the game will accuse the player of mixing up different universes. However, details regarding the ship's construction in Life, the Universe and Everything do not match those in the novel Starship Titanic. This may suggest that the game takes place in the same fictional universe as the Hitchhiker's Guide stories. The Starship Titanic and "existence failure" were first mentioned in Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy". The book is available for free online, with all the words in alphabetical order. The book received mixed reviews, many reviewers pointing out that, while Jones' writing was humorous, it compared poorly to Douglas Adams' style, focusing more on slapstick and camp than Adams' other work. The book follows a group of three humans who are taken aboard the Starship when it crashes on Earth and returns to the planet Blerontin where it was launched, with various subplots including an on-board bomb, a love-triangle between the characters, and an attempt to commit insurance fraud by the investors in the ship. NovelĪ novel entitled Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic, based on the game, was written by Terry Jones. The two formed a creative design partnership in 1994, and served as the concept and design directors for the game. Much of the stylised concept art is credited to Oscar Chichoni, an Oscar-winning Argentine illustrator who specialises in highly detailed, mechanical subject matter, and Isabel Molina, a registered British architect. Starship Titanic features a predominantly Art Deco style in its architectural design, as well as in the design of its robotic characters and ship components. If you turn on the television in the prologue of the game, Douglas Adams will appear and tell you to get on with the game. Adams is the voice of the Succ-U-Bus, and plays the part of the ship's creator, Leovinus, in one of the closing scenes. Similar systems called pneumatic tubes exist in the real world for example, those used by supermarkets to offload cash from tills to a secure area.Īmong the voice actors for the game are former Monty Python members Terry Jones as the Parrot, and John Cleese (under the pseudonym of Kim Bread, itself an in-joke as this was the nickname John Cleese wished to be credited as when appearing in a Doctor Who serial written by Douglas Adams) as the Bomb. The name of the system is a play on the word "succubus". Messages and objects can be placed in the containers, and the system is used to deliver items to the player from other locations. Soundtrack Music by Philip Pope.A feature of the game and the starship itself is the "Succ-U-Bus", a communications system which moves physical containers through a network of tubes by vacuum. Stylistically emulating the work of the great Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the late Terry Jones weaves a fabulously mad and comic tale, adapted by Ian Billings and directed by Dirk Maggs, who also directed the last four editions of the Hitchhiker's sagas. This disaster is swiftly followed by an invitation from an over-attentive robot to come aboard, and Lucy, Dan and Nettie are catapulted into a series of increasingly bizarre encounters. Meanwhile in Oxfordshire, four humans are inspecting a property they intend buying, only to see it crushed under the re-materialising Starship. The owners, Scraliontis and Brobostigan, were intent on destroying the ship and claiming the insurance. Leovinus, the designer of the ship, uncovers shoddy workmanship, poor cybernetics and a series of increasingly eccentric robots. While the galaxy's media looks on, it unfortunately undergoes SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure) and disappears. A tale of interstellar skulduggery, romance and unhinged robots based in Douglas Adams's universe.įar off in the centre of one of the less well-chartered quadrants of the universe, a vast civilisation is preparing to launch the most technologically advanced starship ever - Starship Titanic. Michael Palin stars in an exclusive adaptation of Terry Jones's comic novel.
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