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.&.&&...&. 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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&&&&.&&.&. 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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