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=~........ %                lcross                / ........~=
~......... /%%//%/%%//%/%%//%/%%//%/%%//%/%%//%/%%/ .........~
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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.                          ..........
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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 ......~=/%
$%/=~..... to be used.                              .....~=/%$
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#@$%/=~... larger-scale forms.                      ...~=/%$@#
##@$%/=~..              farms.                      ..~=/%$@##
###@$%/=~.              they would employ their own .~=/%$@###
##@$%/=~..              chemists (wizard-like       ..~=/%$@##
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