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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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...^=\=*&# ==\=\\==\=\\==\=\\==\=\\==\=\\==\=\\==\= #&*=\=^...
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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       ^.........
..........                        Profession)       ..........
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