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The experiment worked!
Dried feces + sand + water = nutrient dense soil.
The primrose plants seemed to thrive when planted in this mixture. But this is not a self-replicating cycle, because although the primrose plants gather excess water through the dew cycle, I alone cannot produce the amount of feces required.
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Some scavengers came by today, heavily armed. They made some vague threats – particularly about stealing my groundcar. I offered them some water, which they took greedily, and I explained how we could benefit one another.
Now we have a self-replicating cycle, dried bandit feces in exchange for water. More soil, more flowers, more water. This is what Kynes meant when he spoke about the human elements of any ecological system.