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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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