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..^=:§@§@# §§:§::§§:§::§§:§::§§:§::§§:§::§§:§::§§:§ #@§@§:=^..
...^=:§@§@ §                lcross                : @§@§:=^...
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...^=:§@§@                                          @§@§:=^...
..^=:§@§@#   i. sent on a rocket into earth orbit   #@§@§:=^..
.^=:§@§@##  ii. forced to land on foreign planet    ##@§@§:=^.
..^=:§@§@# iii. searched for traces of other life   #@§@§:=^..
...^=:§@§@      like ours, feels abandoned          @§@§:=^...
....^=:§@§  iv. clunky build, rugged, problems      §@§:=^....
...^=:§@§@      with dust on solar panels           @§@§:=^...
..^=:§@§@#   v. pioneer experiment, not enough      #@§@§:=^..
.^=:§@§@##      belief in its success for precious  ##@§@§:=^.
..^=:§@§@#      precious materials to be alotted    #@§@§:=^..
...^=:§@§@  vi. finds water. finds fucking water    @§@§:=^...
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...^=:§@§@ §§:§::§§:§::§§:§::§§:§::§§:§::§§:§::§§:§ @§@§:=^...
..^=:§@§@#                                          #@§@§:=^..
.^=:§@§@## on  earth at this time the soil has been ##@§@§:=^.
..^=:§@§@# contaminated  by  previous   generations #@§@§:=^..
...^=:§@§@ attempts   at   large-scale   industrial @§@§:=^...
....^=:§@§ farming.     bespoke    chemicals    are §@§:=^....
...^=:§@§@ manufactured   and  added   to   "clean" @§@§:=^...
..^=:§@§@# (dead)   soil    before    each   yield. #@§@§:=^..
.^=:§@§@##                                          ##@§@§:=^.
..^=:§@§@# these  chems  are  made  to  create  the #@§@§:=^..
...^=:§@§@ correct  environments for the  plants to @§@§:=^...
....^=:§@§ grow,   correcting   the  afterburn   of §@§:=^....
...^=:§@§@ metabolites   from  the   chems  of  the @§@§:=^...
..^=:§@§@# previous yield.                          #@§@§:=^..
.^=:§@§@##                                          ##@§@§:=^.
..^=:§@§@# it is not  uncommon for  each  iteration #@§@§:=^..
...^=:§@§@ to  leave a baseline  different  to  the @§@§:=^...
....^=:§@§ last.  new correcting  chems need to  be §@§:=^....
...^=:§@§@ created then  for each time  the soil is @§@§:=^...
..^=:§@§@# to be used.                              #@§@§:=^..
.^=:§@§@##                                          ##@§@§:=^.
..^=:§@§@# larger-scale forms.                      #@§@§:=^..
...^=:§@§@              farms.                      @§@§:=^...
....^=:§@§              they would employ their own §@§:=^....
...^=:§@§@              chemists (wizard-like       @§@§:=^...
..^=:§@§@#                        profession)       #@§@§:=^..
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