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.,~:^@## 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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....~~:& CONTAMINATED BY PREVIOUS GENERATIONS #&&:~~....
...,~:^^&@ ATTEMPTS AT LARGE-SCALE INDUSTRIAL @&^^:~,...
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.....,:^ MANUFACTURED AND ADDED TO "CLEAN" #&^:,.....
.,~:^@## (DEAD) SOIL BEFORE EACH YIELD. ##@#&^:~,.
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.,~:^@## 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. ##@#&^:~,.
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.,~:^### LARGER-SCALE FORMS. ####&^:~,.
.,~:^@## FARMS. ##@#&^:~,.
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