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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    @£§@:=~...
....~=:@§£                                          £§@:=~....
.....~=:@§ %%:%::%%:%::%%:%::%%:%::%%:%::%%:%::%%:% §@:=~.....
......~=:@                                          @:=~......
.......~=: 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. ..........
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.......... 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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