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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. ....@.....
...@@@.... .....@....
...@.@@... 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. ...@..@...
.......@.. ....@..@..
........@. larger-scale forms. .....@..@.
.........@ farms. ......@..@
@......... they would employ their own .......@..
.@........ chemists (wizard-like ........@.
..@....... profession) @........@
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