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~......... †==††=†==††=†==††=†==††=†==††=†==††=†==† .........~
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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. .~-†&&@###
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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 .....~-†&&
&†-~...... CREATED THEN FOR EACH TIME THE SOIL IS ......~-†&
†-~....... TO BE USED. .......~-†
-~........ ........~-
~......... LARGER-SCALE FORMS. .........~
.......... FARMS. ..........
~......... THEY WOULD EMPLOY THEIR OWN .........~
-~........ CHEMISTS (WIZARD-LIKE ........~-
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