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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 ..........
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