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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 ##@*\~....
..~\*§@### 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 @@@*~~....
..~\*§@### profession) ###@§*\~..
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