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.......-~† **†*††**†*††**†*††**†*††**†*††**†*††**†* †~-.......
......-~†* *                LCROSS                † *†~-......
.....-~†*& †**††*†**††*†**††*†**††*†**††*†**††*†**† &*†~-.....
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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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