Star Wars Planet - Asteroid Field (#7 of 9) Traditional Cache

This is the seventh of nine caches I hope to place in the southern Oklahoma City area based on the Star Wars Saga.

Cache is big enough for small trade items/travel bugs but bring your own scribble stick!

The Hoth asteroid field, also known as the Anoat Asteroid Belt, was an extensive, wildly erratic asteroid belt occupying the farthest orbit of the Hoth system in the Outer Rim Territories. Forged as the resulting effect of a collision between two rocky planets eons prior to theGalactic Civil War, the belt was a favored sanctuary for smugglers andpirates alike hoping to elude legal authority. The field was rich in untapped mineral resources such as metal ore, a magnet for miningprospectors hoping to make a fortune. The chaotic nature of theasteroid field sent a constant bombardment of meteorites to the surface of Hoth, the system's sixth planet.



Following the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY, Han Solo braved the perils of the asteroid field in the Millennium Falcon as part of a desperate ploy to escape the Imperial Navy, successfully navigating its expanse against all odds. Later, in 12 ABY, the Hutts used the belt as the construction site of the Darksaber Project, a planet-destroyingsuperweapon designed to dominate the galaxy. A New Republic attack force under the command of General Wedge Antilles pursued the weapon through the field, and it was ultimately destroyed after being crushed between two planetoids.