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*\«:,,,,,,  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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#@#%*\«:,, correct environments  for the plants  to ,,:«\*%#@#
##@#%*\«:, grow,  correcting   the   afterburn   of ,:«\*%#@##
#@#%*\«:,, metabolites  from  the   chems  of   the ,,:«\*%#@#
@#%*\«:,,, previous yield.                          ,,,:«\*%#@
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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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\«:,,,,,,, larger-scale forms.                      ,,,,,,,:«\
*\«:,,,,,,              farms.                      ,,,,,,:«\*
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#%*\«:,,,,              chemists (wizard-like       ,,,,:«\*%#
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