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| | When [[Sergeant|Sgt]] [[A. Frederick]] [[press briefing|briefed the press]] on the disappearance of ''[[Guinevere One]]'', she affirmed that UNIT had no position on the satellite other than their general [[support]] for [[mankind]]'s expansion to the [[star]]s, and that they were building, in Frederick's own words, a "'''secret mission control centre'''". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Guinevere One (short story)|Guinevere One]]'') |
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| |type = [[Moonbase]]
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| |location = [[The Moon]]
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| |first = The Moonbase (TV story)
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| |appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[Horror of the Space Snakes (novel)|Horror of the Space Snakes]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Second Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Second Doctor]]''
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| |clip = Don't Drink That - Doctor Who - The Moonbase - BBC
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| '''Moonbase One''', later '''Moonbase Laika''', was a [[UNIT]] facility located on [[the Moon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Horror of the Space Snakes (novel)|Horror of the Space Snakes]]'')
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| == History == | | == Behind the scenes == |
| [[Liz Shaw]] had helped [[UNIT]] plan the Moonbase as early as the [[1970s]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Cloisters of Terror (audio story)|The Cloisters of Terror]]'')
| | Given the general unreliability of Frederick's press briefing in ''Guinevere One'', it is unclear if any merit exists towards her claims that a "secret mission control centre" was being built. |
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| In [[2006]], UNIT set up Moonbase One as a scientific research station. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Horror of the Space Snakes (novel)|Horror of the Space Snakes]]'')
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| Liz was stationed at the facility in [[2010]]. She could not attend the [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s [[funeral]] as she could not return until the following [[Sunday]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death of the Doctor (TV story)|Death of the Doctor]]'')
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| After UNIT was shut down circa [[2018]], [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] hoped that it was empty. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets (novel)|Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets]]'')
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| In [[2023]] it was given to [[World State]] and renamed Moonbase Laika. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Horror of the Space Snakes (novel)|Horror of the Space Snakes]]'')
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| According to one account, the Moon was an [[egg]] that was destroyed when it hatched in [[2049]]. The [[Creature (Kill the Moon)|creature]] laid an egg that replaced the original Moon. ([[TV]]: ''[[Kill the Moon (TV story)|Kill the Moon]]'')
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| By [[2070]], the Moonbase was used as a weather control station. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Horror of the Space Snakes (novel)|Horror of the Space Snakes]]'') It controlled [[Earth]]'s [[weather]] with the [[Gravitron]] that was installed in the [[2050s]]. The [[Telosian]] [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] attempted to take it over in 2070, but were stopped by the [[Second Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'')
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| Later in its history, the Moonbase was used as a prison and a children's amusement park. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Horror of the Space Snakes (novel)|Horror of the Space Snakes]]'')
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| == Alternate timeline ==
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| In an [[alternate timeline]] where the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] allied with [[Rassilon]] and began rewriting history, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') the [[Second Doctor]] was partially [[Cyber-conversion|converted]] while on the Moonbase. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Second Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Second Doctor]]'')
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| == References ==
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| When recounting past victories over the Cybermen, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] recalled defeating them on the Moonbase. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
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| [[Category:Moonbases on Earth's Moon]]
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| [[Category:Locations visited by the Second Doctor]]
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| [[Category:Locations visited by the Eleventh Doctor]]
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| [[Category:UNIT bases]] | | [[Category:UNIT bases]] |
When Sgt A. Frederick briefed the press on the disappearance of Guinevere One, she affirmed that UNIT had no position on the satellite other than their general support for mankind's expansion to the stars, and that they were building, in Frederick's own words, a "secret mission control centre". (PROSE: Guinevere One)
Behind the scenes
Given the general unreliability of Frederick's press briefing in Guinevere One, it is unclear if any merit exists towards her claims that a "secret mission control centre" was being built.
