Breakout base.py into functional classes, and move utils functions to a utils.py class.  #1

We should break out base.py to be easier to understood by a new user.

Documentation:
Link to, or put here - documentation about what each class does (e.g. the "class" docstrings)

Checklist:

• Break out work here
• solve for global debug
• Testing
• Docs and readme update
• Pass codacy
• CHANGELOG update