PLEASE NOTE: These caches were originally all letterboxes, with stamps that I personally painstakingly made. Unfortunately, they have proven quite popular, and with that comes muggling. Apparently a number of the stamps have gone missing, and as some have complained about this, and I haven't the time to go and check all 100+ of them on a regular basis, I will be converting them to Traditional caches as needed.
It pains me to make this decision, but it must be done. I recognize that with a powertrail, caches are bound to go missing (that is the nature of the beast), and I appreciate that many of you have helped out by bringing along spares. However, your average cacher does NOT carry around spare stamps, and even if you did, it wouldn't be the one that I originally and personally made for the cache.
So, I am asking for your help: please let me know in your logs which ones are indeed missing their stamps, and I will be changing them to Traditionals (the alternative is archival, unfortunately). Thanks for your assistance in this endeavor, and thanks for supporting this series. I am glad that I spent the many hours needed to create these. However, I cannot justify consistently having to make and then replace all the stamps, due to time constraints.
Sincerely, the CO, josephaw
9/27/15
First off, let me thank you for finding this geocache! I hope you enjoyed the experience of finding it as much as I enjoyed creating and hiding all of these letterbox caches.
This is just one of many such caches in my Dr Who Letterbox Series, made with the help and inspiration of friends. As a Letterbox cache, please leave the stamp for others to see and use, thanks! Each cache has a unique stamp, so bring an inkpad and collect them all! Have fun, and be safe!
"The Impossible Planet" is the eighth episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on 3 June 2006. It is the first part of a two-part story, followed by "The Satan Pit". The TARDIS lands in a base on a planet orbiting a black hole, an allegedly impossible situation that stumps even the Doctor. The base crew are drilling towards a mysterious subterranean power source, to claim the power that keeps the planet in orbit for the good of the Human Empire. However, an ancient evil is down there too, and it is awakened.
Plot
The TARDIS arrives aboard a sanctuary base used for deep-space expeditions. The Doctor and Rose explore the area, discovering strange alien writing that the TARDIS is unable to translate, meaning that it is "impossibly old". They are confronted by the Ood, a docile race of empathic servants who work on the station. After a misunderstanding with the Ood, The Doctor and Rose meet the crew of the base. The crew are on an expedition on the mysterious planet Krop Tor, impossibly in orbit around a black hole. Captain Zack explains that a gravity funnel exists around the planet, allowing them to safely enter or leave the vicinity of the black hole. The source of the funnel is an immense energy force ten miles within the planet, which they are drilling towards to understand its power. As the Doctor and Rose are acquainting themselves with the crew, the base is struck by a quake that causes the section of the base containing the TARDIS to fall into the planet. Rose and The Doctor resign themselves to being trapped and begin helping out the crew.
As the drill nears its target, a malevolent presence begins to make itself known. The Ood's translation spheres reveal messages about the Beast awakening, while Toby is unknowingly possessed by the Beast. The possessed Toby kills Scooti when she discovers him surviving outside the base without any protective gear. When the drilling is complete, the Doctor offers to go with Ida into the bowels of the planet. After traveling down the drill shaft, the Doctor and Ida find a large circular disk inscribed with more undecipherable markings. The Doctor believes it to be a door, and they watch as it opens. Suddenly, the Beast repossesses Toby before transferring into all the Ood as they refer to themselves as the Legion of the Beast. With Rose and the remaining crew alerted that the planet is now falling towards the black hole, the Ood begin to close in on them whilst the voice of the Beast declares that it is free.
Continuity
Zack mentions that he took over when Captain Walker, the original expedition commander, was lost on the voyage in. Captain Walker appears in the TARDISODE accompanying this episode, seen being given the assignment to go to Krop Tor. In the episode the human government is "the Empire". When reporting Scooti's death, Jefferson gives what appears to be the date as "Forty-three K, two point one". Although no further explanation is given for what the numbers mean, this episode is set no earlier than 200 years before "Planet of the Ood", set in 4126, as the translator devices were created 200 years before that point. Rose refers to the dinner lady job she had in "School Reunion" when talking to an Ood serving food.
The Doctor mentions that TARDISes are grown rather than built. Actor John Barrowman mirrored this comment when talking about the piece of "TARDIS coral" Jack Harkness keeps in his office at "the Hub" in a special feature in Radio Times. In a scene cut from the episode "Journey's End" the Doctor-Donna tells Rose and the meta-crisis Doctor how to accelerate the growth of a piece of TARDIS coral so that they could have their own TARDIS in the alternate dimension they were trapped in. Another "grown" spaceship was seen in the Seventh Doctor serial Battlefield (1989).
At one point toward the end of the episode, the possessed Ood begin to list the names that have been used to label "The Beast". One of them is Abaddon, a demon, who features as a major element in the episode "End of Days" of the spin-off series Torchwood. Possessed "red eyed" Ood would also re-appear in "Planet of the Ood" and "Death is the Only Answer". A possessed (but green eyed) Ood named Nephew appears and attempts to kill Amy and Rory in "The Doctor's Wife".
Source: www.wikipedia.org