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,:-\=¤§#@@ Ground With No Hints Of Vegetation. @@#§¤=\-:,
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,,,,:-=§## Below The Surface Are The Mines, ##§=-:,,,,
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,:-\=¤§#@# Higher Down Here, And The View Is Not #@#§¤=\-:,
,:-\=¤§#@# As Monochrome: A Green Light Beckons #@#§¤=\-:,
,,,,:-\=¤§ From Below. §¤=\-:,,,,
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,:-\=¤§#@# Long Ago, There Was A Lifeform Here. In #@#§¤=\-:,
,:-\=¤§#@@ The Center Of The Planetoid, Something @@#§¤=\-:,
,:-\=¤§#@# Dormant, Waiting For A Collision With #@#§¤=\-:,
,:-\=¤§#@@ Another Body. But No Planet Was @@#§¤=\-:,
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,:-\=¤§#@# Became A Sludge. #@#§¤=\-:,
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,,,,,-\\=§ And Elves Came As Miners, And The §=\\-,,,,,
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