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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. ......-\$&
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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 ...-\$@@
@#&$\-.... PREVIOUS YIELD. ....-\$@
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&$\-...... 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. ..........
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.......... LARGER-SCALE FORMS. ..........
.......... FARMS. ..........
.......... THEY WOULD EMPLOY THEIR OWN ..........
.......... CHEMISTS (WIZARD-LIKE ..........
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