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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. #@@&¤†*=^.
...^=†¤¤@@ @@¤¤†=^...
.^=*†¤&@## 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. #@@&¤†*=^.
.^=*†¤&@@# #@@&¤†*=^.
....==†&@@ larger-scale forms. @@&†==....
.^=*†¤&@## farms. ##@&¤†*=^.
.^=*†¤&@@# they would employ their own #@@&¤†*=^.
.^=*†¤¤¤@@ chemists (wizard-like @@¤¤¤†*=^.
.^=*†¤&@@@ profession) @@@&¤†*=^.
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