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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. ###&§\=...
..=\§### ####&§\=..
...=\§## 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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