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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    §§$:=~....
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........~= on  earth at this time the soil has been =~........
.........~ contaminated  by  previous   generations ~.........
.......... attempts   at   large-scale   industrial ..........
.......... farming.     bespoke    chemicals    are ..........
.......... manufactured   and  added   to   "clean" ..........
.........~ (dead)   soil    before    each   yield. ~.........
........~=                                          =~........
.......~=: these  chems  are  made  to  create  the :=~.......
......~=:$ 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.                              §$:=~.....
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.......~=: larger-scale forms.                      :=~.......
........~=              farms.                      =~........
.........~              they would employ their own ~.........
..........              chemists (wizard-like       ..........
..........                        profession)       ..........
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