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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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*^~....... **^*^^**^*^^**^*^^**^*^^**^*^^**^*^^**^* .......~^*
^~........                                          ........~^
~......... On Earth At This Time The Soil Has  Been .........~
^~........ Contaminated  By  Previous   Generations ........~^
*^~....... Attempts   At   Large-Scale   Industrial .......~^*
$*^~...... Farming.    Bespoke     Chemicals    Are ......~^*$
@$*^~..... Manufactured   And  Added   To   "Clean" .....~^*$@
#@$*^~.... (Dead)    Soil   Before    Each   Yield. ....~^*$@#
@#@$*^~...                                          ...~^*$@#@
#@#@$*^~.. These  Chems  Are  Made  To  Create  The ..~^*$@#@#
@#@$*^~... Correct  Environments For The Plants  To ...~^*$@#@
#@$*^~.... Grow,   Correcting   The  Afterburn   Of ....~^*$@#
@$*^~..... Metabolites   From  The   Chems  Of  The .....~^*$@
$*^~...... Previous Yield.                          ......~^*$
*^~.......                                          .......~^*
^~........ 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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