The Geocacher's Guide to the Galaxy Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 7/19/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:



Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-three million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think GPS devices are a pretty neat idea.

It is this planet that the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (SCC)—in collaboration with the Vogons from the planet Vogsphere—have been scheming for decades to destroy in order to facilitate an Intergalactic Highway Construction Project (IHCP). The SCC has many technological patents under its name: notably, their Genuine People Personalities (GPP) and Matter Transference Beams (MTB). However, there is a little-known secret division of this company that is in charge of funding this construction project by taking money from the very same amazingly primitive humans that they plan on destroying. They accomplish this through the use of an entertainment device known to earthlings as the Space Invaders Arcade Game (SIAG). In this game, humans insert their money into a machine that simulates a conflict in which they must defend their home base from the attack of evil aliens. This money is collected and stored on earth in an undisclosed location and once every year is teleported (through the use of SCC’s MTB technology, of course) to SCC Headquarters (SCCHQ) located on the fourth planet in the Sirius Tau Star System (STTS-4). The irony that the humans are engaging in a simulation that is precisely the same attack plan as designed by the Vogon army, and in whereas no matter how good a particular human might be at defending the eternal onslaught of invaders from space, the end-result is the same since the game gets infinitely faster and faster until no human (nor machine) can actually beat it, has been completely lost on them.

That’s where we come in. By “we”, I mean you. Our exceptionally smart (and depressed) robot, Marvin, has located the vicinity of the very last shipment of money that is to be sent immediately to SCCHQ on STTS-4 via MTB. As soon as they receive this last shipment, they will have enough money to finish the IHCP and the annihilation of earth will begin immediately.

We cannot allow the destruction of earth (and consequentially, its human inhabitants), therefore, you must travel to these coordinates, GPS device in hand, and search out this cache of money. Once you have located the shipping package, you will need to remove the inner contents and record an entry in the device's logbook. Once this is completed the S.S. Heart of Gold —a nearby spaceship not so well disguised as a local Greek church—will intercept the MTB, thus preventing the destruction of the planet Earth so we can all get back to the party and another round of Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters (PGBs).

I implore you to act with limitless discretion and immeasurable urgency in this matter.

Infinitely Yours,

Zaphod Beeblebrox the Fourth
President of the Universe

P.S. Please beware, when you remove the storage cache from its shipping container, you will initiate an ancient automatic defense system that will result in the breakage of three coffee cups and a mouse cage, the bruising of somebody's upper arm, and the untimely creation and sudden demise of a bowl of petunias and an innocent sperm whale. -ZB
Whatever you do,


Looking for round two? Check out the sequel to Geocachers Guide to the Galaxy---The Geocache at the end of the Universe!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur pbzovangvba gb gur ybpx vf gur svefg, zvqqyr, naq ynfg ahzoref bs gur CVA (Cbyr Vqragvsvpngvba Ahzore).

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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