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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. -.........
........-= =-........
.......-=\ 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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