
When Arthur pressed this button, a message lit up on the panel saying 'please do not press this button again'. This area contained a computer bank, which had an invitingly large red button on a nearby panel. When Arthur and Ford arrived in the embarkation area of the ship, it was described as 'rather smart'. The control cabin was entirely Improbability-proof and had a Tannoy system that could be heard around the whole ship.

The cabin looked excitingly purposeful, there were large video screens which ranged over the control and guidance system panels on the concave wall, and long banks of computers set into the convex wall. It would have been a great deal simpler and more practical to build the cabin as an ordinary three-dimensional oblong room, but then the designers would have gotten miserable. Two long walls had been raked round in a slight parallel curve and all of the angles and corners of the cabin were contoured in excitingly chunky shapes. The cabin was mostly white, oblong and about the size of a smallish restaurant. Ī design of the Heart of Gold based on the description in the novel, via HowStuffWorks, 2012. It was perfectly white and mindbogglingly beautiful. The Heart of Gold was described as huge, 150 meters long, and shaped like a sleek running shoe. Ship design and appearance In the first book Most of them wore multi-coloured ceremonial lab coats. There were also a few reptiloid atomineers, two or three green sylph-like maximegalacticians, and an octopoid physucturalist or two. The engineers and researchers who built it were mostly humanoid, though there was one who was a superintelligent shade of the colour blue.

The design crew had worked secretively for quite a while on the Heart of Gold on Damogran.
