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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 ####**\«..
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..«\***### last. new correcting chems need to be ###***\«..
..«\**#### created then for each time the soil is ####**\«..
..«\**#### to be used. ####**\«..
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..«\*##### they would employ their own #####*\«..
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