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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 .~=††*##
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###&*††=~. LARGER-SCALE FORMS. .~=††*##
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