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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 ~-........
.........- to be used. -.........
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.......... larger-scale forms. ..........
.......... farms. ..........
.......... they would employ their own ..........
.......... chemists (wizard-like ..........
.......... profession) ..........
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