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* While writing up an entry for Hactar's scheme from the ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]]'', I had a moment of fridge brilliance over a plot that'd confused me for years. At first, his backup plan seems to be a [[Xanatos Roulette]]: how could he have ''possibly'' known that Arthur would take the Ashes back several days into the past, and then find the cricket ball, and decide to fulfill his fantasy of bowling at Lord's Ground, ''and'' have a war robot waiting there, and be unable to stop himself... I mean, come on! Then while typing, it hit me. Hactar's ability to manipulate people's thoughts depends on how close they are to the dust cloud. He says himself that he needed the leaders of Krikkit to live in the orbital stations to increase his mental hold on them. Arthur and Trillian, though, walked right ''into'' the dust cloud. They breathed in his nanotechology as if it were air, it kept them alive in the vacuum of space. So of course, he could manipulate ''them'' in ways he never could've done with Krikkit. Why was Arthur so determined to take the Ashes back in time, and to bowl at Lord's Ground with the war robot, and why couldn't he stop running once he realized what was happening? Because Hactar had planted an unconscious command for him to do so. Hactar wasn't just correctly guessing all of Arthur's reactions - he actually made Arthur do those things. -- BritBllt

* The [[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy{{ROOTPAGENAME}}|Hitchhiker's trilogy]], of all things, has several. For instance, there's one side-story about a scientist who spends his entire career trying to prove his theory that ballpoint pens are actually an alien lifeform, and that when you lose them, it's because they've escaped and are trying to return to their home planet. He claims to have found this planet... but when people check, they find nooneno-one but a little old man who claims the ballpoint pen thing wasn't true, but he's lying and gets a large sum of money from Zaphod Beeblebrox's secondhand pen business. So: mass slavery of sentient aliens or genocide? Take your pick!

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