The only named Vogons in the stories are Jeltz (see below), Kwaltz (who appears in the film), Zarniwoop, revealed to be a Vogon in the Quintessential Phase, and Jeltz's son Constant Mown. They banish the ruling philosophers to the tax office to lick stamps and within a few short Voge years took over pretty much all of the galactic civil service, where they form most of the Galactic bureaucracy, most notably in the Vogon Constructor Fleets (which, despite their name, patrol the galaxy demolishing planets). Until their myriad anatomical deficiencies could be rectified with surgery." They then emigrated en masse to the MeagaBrantis star cluster (although the film has them staying on Vogsphere), the political hub of the galaxy. As the radio show says: "What nature refused to give to them, they did without. Through sheer obstinacy, though, the Vogons survived (partly by adapting a misplaced, badly malformed, and dyspeptic liver into a brain). The series tells that, far back in prehistory, when the first primeval Vogons crawled out of the sea, evolution gave up on them. "His creations were so grotesque.when we looked at them, we realised they were the Vogons". Garth Jennings deliberately based his conception of the Vogons on the work of cartoonist James Gillray (1757–1815). In the radio series it is said that "Their highly domed nose rises above their small piggy forehead".
The film's commentary states that the idea behind the high flat noses was that they evolved both the noses and the severe bureaucracy from being repeatedly whacked by the paddle creatures under the sand on Vogsphere whenever they had an independent thought (in the film, the Vogon bureaucracy is centred on Vogsphere). Their noses are above their eyebrows, which are either ginger (in the television series) or white (in the film). Vogons are roughly human-sized, although much bulkier, with green or grey skin. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you. The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat, and the best way to irritate him is to feed his grandmother to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders – signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy. Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. An animatronic Vogon head, used in the film version of the story.
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