Welcome to the third Geocache in my Red Dwarf series of caches. This cache is also based on the character Arnold Rimmer.
Red Dwarf is a British sci-fi comedy show about the last human being, Dave Lister, that is stuck on a 5 mile long Jupiter Mining Corporation spaceship, Red Dwarf, as he tries to find his way back to Earth. Lister was locked into stasis because he tried to smuggle a cat on the ship. While he was locked in stasis, a radiation leak killed the entire crew and the Red Dwarf headed to the far reaches of space to keep the radiation contamination from spreading. Three million years later, Lister was released from stasis. With Lister on this mining spaceship is a being named “Cat” that evolved from his cat, a Series 4000 mechanoid named Kryten and a hologram of Lister’s bunkmate named Arnold Rimmer. Funny thing about Rimmer is that he (well, his human form) was the one that caused the accidental radiation leak that killed off the crew of the Red Dwarf and put Lister into this predicament.
Arnold Rimmer is a neurotic, charmless, cowardly, petty, career-minded yet underachieving, smeghead. He has the charm of a banana peel and is as likeable as the Ebola virus… but you can’t help but feel sorry for the guy. If it wasn’t for his upbringing and the fact he didn’t have the right nobby parents (or so he says…) he might’ve really gone far in life. Maybe he should blame himself and not others. But if he did that, it would ruin the comedy of the show.
For this mystery cache you will need to read up on some amazing Rimmer facts and answer the questions to find the missing numbers to complete the coordinates; just like the second cache in this series. The cache container that you need to find is based off of his “Light Bee”; the device that projects his hologram and solid light form. When you find it, you will get the joke and play on words. Don’t worry, you won’t fail this thirteen times like Rimmer did on his astro-navigation exams. Please go to this site to read up on Rimmer:
http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Arnold_Rimmer
or here:
https://reddwarf.fandom.com/wiki/Arnold_Rimmer
Or maybe, if you are good enough, you might be able to answer these questions on your own to find this cache!
UPDATE: July 2, 2024:
The cache had to be moved to a new location since Alpha Hill is going to be closed off.
Here is the new location puzzle:
Final Location: N 47° 47.SMG W 122° 08.HED
S= How old was Rimmer when he was about to be cannibalized by his fellow Space Scout friends on Io? 1S
M= The “Boys from the Dwarf” consist of how many people from the show?
G= His father was how many inches short that kept him from the Space Corps?
H= How many service medals has he won?
E= In Series 9, the crew thought they were on Earth in the year 200E.
D= In what series number is Arnold approached by his “Ace Rimmer” version to become a defender of the multiverse upon Ace's death?
Please place the cache back EXACTLY where you found it.