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 To tell us the story of this remarkable transformation, who better than someone who has been here from the very start?
-//[The camera cuts to a garden, where an elderly woman is kneeling in a bed of primroses. She looks up, into the camera, sets down her trowel, and gets to her feet, wiping her hands clean on her sturdy work trousers]//
+//[The camera cuts to a graveyard, grave-markers almost buried in the banks of flowers. An elderly woman is kneeling in a bed of primroses.]//
+**Voiceover:** Lyla Mayweather: scientist, farmer, and peace-maker. She planted some of the first seeds here, and she's spent her life helping the planet blossom.
+//[The old woman looks up, sets down her trowel, and gets to her feet, wiping her hands clean on her sturdy work trousers]//
+**Lyla:** Sorry, I was just weeding this bed - that particular grave is empty now, but it's still important to keep it neat, after all.
+You're here to hear our story, I suppose? Where would you like me to begin?
 **Presenter:** What have been the biggest challenges here on b-Exagora?
-**Lyla:** Well, of course, there were the riots in the beginning, and the issues with NEXUS, but as for //interesting// challenges, the biggest was the pollination issue, of course. Now, many of the plant species we grow here are typically insect-pollinated, and while there are many things we can do with modified plants - I'm sure you've heard about the work I did with geraniums in the early years - pollinators were always an issue. As b-Exagora has no native insect life, it was almost a decade after we began work before we could first import bees...
+**Lyla:** Well, of course, there were the riots in the beginning, and the issues with NEXUS, but as for //interesting// challenges, the biggest was the pollination issue, of course.
+Now, many of the plant species we grow here are typically insect-pollinated, and while there are many things we can do with modified plants - I'm sure you've heard about the work I did with geraniums in the early years - pollinators were always an issue. As b-Exagora has no native insect life, it was almost a decade after we began work before we could first import bees...

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