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........~: $                lcross                : :~........
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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    #@@@*$:~..
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....~:$*@@ $$:$::$$:$::$$:$::$$:$::$$:$::$$:$::$$:$ @@*$:~....
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......~:$* 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       ..........
..........                        profession)       ..........
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