Many a True Base

Many a True base was an intrepid planetary colony founded on Mars, appearing in the first episode of Planetbase.

The base survived less than one rotation of Mars, at approximately 14 hours earth time, based on the 24 hour and 40 minute day, and the status indicator of the day and night cycle of the planet.

Background
Many a True Base was founded on the third of November 2015, with the first colony ship touching down at N 0°E 48°, in the mid morning, however, the initial seven colonists spent a quarter of their daylight hours taking inventory, and doing little else constructive.

First Construction
At the midday point on the Martian day, ground was broken as the colony's engineer began construction on the O2 generator, fearing concerns that the colonists' oxygen was running low. However, it wasn't until the early evening of the first day that the generator was complete, inspiring work to be carried out on a solar panel to power the facility.

Concurrently, construction began on a water extractor, to better allow the fledging colony to survive.

The Final Hours
At sunset of the first day, the airlock entry for the facility was completed, prompting six of the seven colonists to retreat into the facility. This met with the solar panel failing, at the lack of solar energy, stranding the seventh member of the colony, the group's medic Ayann Levine, when the airlock failed to open for her passage.

This was met with base architect Jon noting that solar panels do not function at night, and plans were set out for a wind turbine. This however would be the final effort of the medic, unqualified for construction work, and with no assistance from the other colonists, due to the aforementioned airlock failure.

Many a True Base Disaster
At the start of the night cycle, the O2 generator failed, with six colonists locked inside a rapidly de-oxygenating base, with little reserves in their issued space suits. In spite of the valiant efforts of Ayann Levine, power was not restored through construction of a wind turbine, and at the mid point of the night cycle, the base had completely de-oxygenated.

At the close of this event, all seven colonists died of asphyxiation:

Colene E. Franco

Xad Maynard

Norine Cooke

Ayann S. Levine

Three others died during this event, however their names are lost with the base.

The official cover story for the disaster of Many a True Base is that an unexpected meteor struck the base. The colonists of Many a Two Base are only to be told the official story, lest they become nervous of meeting a similar fate.