Chapters 31-34 Summary

n Chapter 31, Zaphod discovers that the Krikkit robots are being controlled by the continually depressed robot Marvin, who was rescued from the swamps by the robots who recognized his enormous intelligence. They did not foresee that plugging Marvin into their control center would spread his depression throughout the entire system of robots. Zaphod finds Marvin and asks him to tell him where to find the others. Marvin brings up a screen that shows Trillian addressing the Krikkit elders, who are sitting in a chamber where a supernova bomb, a small white ball, sits on a stand with a Krikkit robot next to it, prepared to strike it with a bat. Marvin explains to Zaphod that the bomb is meant to destroy the entire universe, but that it will not work.

Trillian is telling the elders of Krikkit that they have been...