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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 .....,~/*%
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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 .......,~/
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&%*/~,.... larger-scale forms.                      ....,~/*%&
£&%*/~,...              farms.                      ...,~/*%&£
#£&%*/~,..              they would employ their own ..,~/*%&£#
##£&%*/~,.              chemists (wizard-like       .,~/*%&£##
#£&%*/~,..                        profession)       ..,~/*%&£#
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