His High Judgmental Supremacy, Judiciary Pag, L.I.V.R. (the Learned, Impartial, and Very Relaxed) was the Chairman of the Board of Judges at the Krikkit War Crimes Trial. He privately called himself Zipo Bibrok 5 × 108 (which is five hundred million or half a billion in short-scale terminology). He is, presumably, an ancestor of Zaphod Beeblebrox - the accident with the contraceptive and the time-machine that caused Zaphod's father to be Zaphod Beeblebrox the Second and so on, would give us the time, half a billion generations earlier, when Judiciary Pag lived and the Krikkit War took place.
It was Judiciary Pag's idea that the people of Krikkit be permanently sealed in a Slo-Time envelope, and the seal could only be broken by bringing a special Key to the Lock. When the rest of the universe had ended, the seal would be broken and Krikkit could continue a solitary existence in the universe. This judgement seemed to please everybody except the people of Krikkit themselves, but the only alternative was to face annihilation.
Appears in:
- the novel Life, the Universe and Everything
He is played on radio by Rupert Degas, and appears in fit the fifteenth of the radio series.
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