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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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†^~-...... ††^†^^††^†^^††^†^^††^†^^††^†^^††^†^^††^† ......-~^†
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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.                          ...-~^†@§@
#@§@†^~-..                                          ..-~^†@§@#
##@§@†^~-. 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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