WE WERE
WARNED...
The Tattoine Incident was an event
that occurred in Tatton Estate, Cheshire, UK on the night of 14
February 1953. There were sitings of 2 Unidentified Landed
Objects (ULOs) and the subsequent discovery of 'The Device of The
Dark Side' within The Estate. The Incident came to my
attention recently when I was bequeathed a copy of a top secret UK
government report into The Incident. Pages of this
report have been hidden in a 3 stage multi-cache in Tatton
Park:
GC16ZTC: The Tattoine
Incident. This
Wherigo cartridge complements the existing cache but allows a more
interactive tour. It includes an additional bonus cache
which is exclusive to the Wherigo experience.
In addition to providing details
about The Incident itself, the tour also includes extensive
information about the other features and attractions of this
beautiful part of Cheshire. The starting point is at the main
car park which is at the coordinates given on this page.
Please note the Park is closed on Mondays during the winter. There
is an entrance charge of around £4.20 for cars although access on
foot and bike is free.
For those of you who are unable to
visit the cache in person full details of The Incident and further
research resources are available on Pandemi's website:
www.pandemi.co.uk. You can download the cartridge from the Wherigo
website
here. The cartridge plays in the emulator which you can
also download from the website but you will really need to access
the pages of The Report on the ground or from Pandemi's
website to understand what is really going on here.
Any comments reference bugs, useability and so
on would be gratefully appreciated.
THIS CARTRIDGE HAS BEEN FIELD
TESTED AND WORKS FINE NOW BUT AS WHERIGO IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT IT
CAN BE A BIT UNRELIABLE. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD THE LATEST
VERSION BEFORE SETTING OUT AND, JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE, SAVE
THE CARTRIDGE AFTER EACH STAGE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE
BEGINNING IF IT DOES LOCK UP. ALSO PLEASE NOTE THE SIMPLE
DIRECTIONAL INSTRUCTIONS AND/OR COORDINATES WHICH ARE GIVEN AT EACH
STAGE IN CASE THE GPSr SHOULD LOSE ITS
BEARING.
THE
TATTOINE INCIDENT
SERIES
The main cache is
'The Tattoine Incident: 1'. This will take you on a 2 hour
journey around the original landing site and describes the incident
that occurred in Tatton Park in February 1953. A recent example of
the activities of The Dark Side is visible at a related drive-by
cache nearby called
'The Tattoine Incident: 2- Further Evidence' (now archived)
where you once were able to inspect at first hand the first Earthly
application of The Device. If you still aren't convinced
that there are things going on that we should be seriously bothered
about, then visit
'The Tattoine Incident: 3- & What's Going On
Here?!'. Here you
will see evidence of a large Earth monitoring system and an
abundance of mutant creatures.
'The Tattoine Incident: 4- Wormhole' and
'The Tattoine Incident: 5- Wormhole Approach Beacon' will help
explain why this part of the country is of such importance to The
Dark Side. I have
adopted a cache at
'The Tattoine Incident: 6- The Bongs' where there appears to be
a Dark Side training facility and finally there is a large object
which will cause you extreme alarm clearly visible at
'The Tattoine Incident: 7- OMG!
WMD?!'.
To
complete your research there is
'The Tattoine Incident: 1- Wherigo'. This is an interactive
geocache which has been developed using the Wherigo system. The
tour will take you around the original 3 stage multi-cache and
provides you with additional information about Tatton Park and The
Incident. It culminates with an additional bonus cache which is
logable.
Full
details of The Incident and the subsequent activities of The Dark
Side are available from Pandemi's website (www.pandemi.co.uk). Here you can
access extensive resources including photos, videos and original
documents. You will
have every reason to be concerned.
Good
luck & 'May The Force Be With You'...
