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.......~=: 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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.......~=: 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 =~........
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