Dashiell Gibson

Dashiell Gibson is the protagonist of the Moon Base Alpha book series. He is one of the lunarnauts (or "Moonies"), and he is a 12-year-old boy. In general, Dashiell does not like Moon Base Alpha, as the services such as food and rooms were terrible. He is friends with Kira Howard and mere acquaintances with Rodrigo Marquez, both children being other Moonies. The character also gives some fun personalities towards himself

Space Case
In the first book, Space Case, Dash overhears Ronald Holtz in the bathroom chatting with Zan Perfonic, an alien. Dash thinks that Dr. Holtz is on the phone, but that is not true.

When he wakes up the next day, the base is in chaos. Dr. Holtz is dead, and his corpse is being carried inside by Daphne Merritt and Garth Grisan. The Moon Base Commander, Nina Stack, announces that it was an accident, but Dash disagrees, believing that it is intentional murder, and gets so wrapped up in the idea that Nina forbids him to talk about. Dash disobeys her, though.

A few hours later, a SpaceX Starship rocket containing supplies and astronauts lands, piloted by Katya King. Dash shows Kira Howard around, negotiating between carts of eggs and meat. When he finishes the tour and enters his residence, Zan, posing as a temp security guard, claims that she also believes that Dr. Holtz's death wasn't accidental and asks Dash to help with detective work, starting with finding out the security tape of Dr. Holtz's death.

Daphne admits that she is a spy for Maximum Adventure. Daphne also confides in Dash and his partners that a drone has flown to a Solar Array when she didn't program him to.

Dash understands that this must mean that the Solar Array might be hiding Dr. Holtz's phone. Late at night, he leaves the moon base with Kira and bound across the moon's surface to the Solar Array. Their suspicions are confirmed when they discover Dr. Holtz's phone in a Ziploc baggie. On their way back, though, the giant robot arm used for construction starts to attempt to squash Dash and Kira. Luckily for them, they are able to enter the airlock just in time, but the robot controller has already fled.

Before Dash and Kira can explain their actions, Nina marches up to them and attempts to penalize them. But when she understands their actions, she listens to the phone recording with Dash, Kira, Chang Kowalski, Maxwell Howard, Stephen Gibson, and Rose Harris. Dash explains his detective work, and his mom looks at Dr. Holtz's sign language. Immediately, she gasps and shouts that Garth Grisan is actually the murderer. All of the people in the control room tear into the staging area, but Garth has already dismantled the airlock and has an oxygen tank on himself. He threatens to open the airlock, suffocating everyone, and Nina is forced to comply.

But suddenly, Lars Sjoberg steps out of his room and chastises everyone for waking him up. This distracts Garth, and Nina, Chang, and Dash's Dad all wrangle Garth to the floor to arrest him. Dash detaches himself from all of the commotions and meets Zan in the greenhouse and confronts her about her species. Zan admits that she is actually an alien.

Spaced Out
In the second book, Spaced Out, Dash is teaching Zan Perfonic about aspects of human life in the rec room, specifically Star Wars. Zan cackles madly when she sees it, finding the effects ridiculous. Suddenly, Patton and Lily Sjoberg run into the rec room looking murderous. Both interrogate Dash on where Rodrigo Marquez is. Dash has no idea, but oddly, Patton and Lily don't believe him and start to chase him around the moon base. Luckily, Dash is able to fend them off by forcing Patton's head into the suction part of the space toilet.

Nina Stack confronts Dash about this in her residence and punishes him with no commlink privileges. Dash reasons with her that the Sjobergs were the ones who started it, but Nina is suddenly distracted by a text. She forces Dash out of her room, and he soon drifts to sleep.

The next morning, everyone is in a panic. Nina is missing, and everyone is stampeding through the base, looking for her. Dash discovers that his parents and Chang Kowalski were able to see the text on Nina's watch. It was from "Charlie," Who had sent two songs, each thought to be code.

Dash, Violet Gibson, and Kira Howard all go detecting around Nina's residence and find that she has a teddy bear and she is secretly hiding valuable moon rocks. When they return, they tell Chang, who directs everyone on a lunar-surface look-around, only leaving the kids and Timothy Marquez. This is clearly a mistake. Dr. Marquez does nothing when Patton Sjoberg assaults Dash, instead of thinking that Patton is the victim. Fortunately, Zan is able to drive Patton away, transforming herself into a terrifying creature.

When Dash recovers, he discovers from Cesar Marquez that along with the Sjoberg twins, Cesar broke many helmets playing an illegal round of football. Dash tells Chang over the radio, who alerts the other Lunarnauts. Both Rose Harris and Daphne Merritt admit that their helmets are cracked. Daphne is able to come to the base, but Dash's mother is too far away and stops in a lava tube. Chang asks Dash and Kira to bring the repair kit over, and both exit the moon base.

Dash and Kira are able to avoid being maimed by a space junk barrage and after helmets are fixed, everyone returns to the base. Dash demands a visit to the Sjoberg suite and after findingcan able to make the Sjobergs admit that they are in cahoots with Maximum Adventure. After that, Dash realizes something else and with the help of Violet, discovers that Nina is in the Moon Base Alpha construction pod. With the help of Chang, Nina is rescued.

Dash comes to another realization and makes Shari Goldstein admit that she is "Charlie" in the greenhouse. Shari admits to it, but her intentions were clearly not evil, as she sobs when Dash tells her the reason Nina was grabbing moon rocks- To get funding for her ill mother's insurance.

After all of the day's commotion, Dash talks with Zan in the medbay, and accidentally thinks himself to Hapuna Beach in Hawaii.

Waste of Space
In the third book, Waste of Space, Dash, and Stephen Gibson play catch on the lunar surface but have to return to Moon Base Alpha once Lars Sjoberg is acting odd. It turns out that his Lutefisk has been laced with Cyanide. After keeping Lars' condition at an acceptable level, Nina Stack orders Dash to help investigate and admits that the lacing was intentional.

Dash goes to bed for a few hours and then wakes up to head to school. Before they start, Dash discovers that some apple seeds in the greenhouse are missing, and apple seeds are used to make Cyanide.

When Dash goes to tell Nina, he interrogates her and his Dad when he is certain that they are hiding something. His Dad confesses that their oxygen supply is slowly depleting. Dash's family, Kira and Maxwell Howard, Mfuzi and Kamoze Iwanyi, Shari Goldstein, Ilina Brahmaputra-Marquez, and Timothy, Cesar, Rodrigo, and Inez Marquez would leave the next day (since they are all families with children), and the rest of the Lunarnauts would be leaving on the next rocket flight, abandoning Moon Base Alpha before they can restart it and fix the oxygen problem.

Soon after, Zan Perfonic reveals her true form to Dash, who is in awe. Then, Dash's mind is taxed even greater when he discovers that Zan and Violet have been in contact as well.

Later, Nina summons Dash to her room and blackmails him to search Chang Kowalski's room. Between the window of the search and the meeting, Dash hears a list of suspects from Dr. Goldstein, who has a security camera in the greenhouse and tells him the people who came in but didn't eat anything. Suddenly, Dash is interrupted by a scream from the rec room.

Dash runs over and discovers the Sjoberg Twins harassing his little sister Violet Gibson with Sonja Sjoberg looking on happily. He tries to defend Violet, but now the Sjobergs have a target on his back. Fortunately, Dash is armed and pies the Sjoberg twins in the face with bags of dried dung. Both are mortified and run to the sinks to wash their faces. Sonja is enraged and tries to attack Dash, but Kira trips her and the three-run.

Dash finds a syringe hidden under Chang's desk with the help of Kira when Nina creates a diversion. before he can run for Nina, Chang enters the room. He cackles when he finds the planted syringe, amused by the silly attempt to frame him. When Dash and Kira exit the room, they enter the mess hall and are shocked into terror when everyone on the moon base surprises him by jumping out from behind the greenhouse.

Everyone arranges a birthday lunch, but it goes horribly when everyone starts to show symptoms of Hypoxia. Everyone suits up and leaves the base. Dash and Violet horse around, but when Dash is about to reveal the real poisoner, an unknown person ambushes Dash and tries to kill him, but Cesar Marquez saves them. Viktor Balnikov manhandles the attacker's visor and flips it up, revealing Lily Sjoberg's face.

Back in the now oxygen-filled base, Dash tells everyone that Lars Sjoberg poisoned himself to get away from the moon. This causes family feud. Lars pins the blame on Lily, who tries to throttle him. Because of this, Sonja rages at Lars for letting Lily take the fall, while Patton Sjoberg is amused by the tirade.

The day ends, and Dash sleeps while everyone packs for the next day's rocket launch. Before leaving, Dash goes into the restroom and has a conversation with Zan. Zan is tearful, and at first skirts, the question, but then admits that she has to leave forever. Dash is also dismayed, but before Zan leaves, she releases all of the information to save humanity into Dash's head.

Dash soon leaves the bathroom onto the rocket and is blasted away to Earth.

Later Life
Soon, with the help of Chang Kowalski, Dash creates the Kowalski-Gibson Equation to help humanity. Dash studies under Dr. Brahmaputra-Marquez in college and with the help of Violet learns to think himself to any mind. He uses this and is able to transport himself to Boscanable to find Zan.

Personality
Dash is a very tactful and inquisitive person. He is well-rounded and seems to be a well-behaved child. He is also very helpful and can empathize with other people. Dash also has a very fine mind, as he solved three mysteries in a few months and even had his brain complemented by Chang Kowalski, whose IQ is Einstein-Level.