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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" ###¤¤§=~..
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....~§§§¤# CORRECT ENVIRONMENTS FOR THE PLANTS TO #¤§§§~....
......~=¤¤ GROW, CORRECTING THE AFTERBURN OF ¤¤=~......
..~=§¤¤### METABOLITES FROM THE CHEMS OF THE ###¤¤§=~..
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..~=§¤¤### 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. ###¤¤§=~..
..~=§¤¤### FARMS. ###¤¤§=~..
..~=§¤¤### THEY WOULD EMPLOY THEIR OWN ###¤¤§=~..
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