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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 ¤$**«^....
...^«**$¤@ to be used.                              @¤$**«^...
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.^«**$¤@## larger-scale forms.                      ##@¤$**«^.
..^«**$¤@#              farms.                      #@¤$**«^..
...^«**$¤@              they would employ their own @¤$**«^...
....^«**$¤              chemists (wizard-like       ¤$**«^....
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