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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. -.........
........--                                          --........
.......--^ 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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