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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.                      #@#&*%/«..
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.....«%*&&              they would employ their own &&*%«.....
.....«/%*&              chemists (wizard-like       &*%/«.....
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