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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 $*~-......
.......-~* metabolites  from  the  chems   of   the *~-.......
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........-~ it is  not uncommon  for each  iteration ~-........
.......-~* to  leave a  baseline  different  to the *~-.......
......-~*$ last.  new  correcting chems need to  be $*~-......
.....-~*$% created then for each time  the soil  is %$*~-.....
....-~*$%# to be used.                              #%$*~-....
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..-~*$%#@# larger-scale forms.                      #@#%$*~-..
.-~*$%#@##              farms.                      ##@#%$*~-.
..-~*$%#@#              they would employ their own #@#%$*~-..
...-~*$%#@              chemists (wizard-like       @#%$*~-...
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