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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 ...^~*@@@#
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###@@@*~^. 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 ...^~*@@@#
@@@*~^.... 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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