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 -- from //"10 Things You Won't Believe Happened on b-Exagora! (It Wasn't All Evil Research!)"//​ on popular Bel-Ashan light entertainment website -- from //"10 Things You Won't Believe Happened on b-Exagora! (It Wasn't All Evil Research!)"//​ on popular Bel-Ashan light entertainment website
  
-**Extract from //Redemption and Rebirth: a b-Exagora Retrospective//, a documentary filmed in 750PE//+----- 
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 +===Extract from 'Redemption and Rebirth: a b-Exagora Retrospective', a documentary filmed in 750PE===
  
 //[Aerial shot. The camera pans across rolling green fields, peppered with brilliantly-coloured flowers]// //[Aerial shot. The camera pans across rolling green fields, peppered with brilliantly-coloured flowers]//
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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? 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 gardenwhere an elderly woman is kneeling in a bed of geraniums. She looks upinto 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 graveyardgrave-markers almost buried in the banks of flowers. An elderly woman is kneeling in a bed of primroses.]//​ 
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 +**Voiceover:​** Lyla Mayweather: scientist, farmer, and peace-maker. She planted some of the first seeds hereand she's spent her life helping ​the planet blossom. 
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 +//[The old woman looks up, sets down her trowel, and gets to her feet, wiping her hands clean on her sturdy work trousers]// 
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 +**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. 
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 +You're here to hear our story, I suppose? Where would you like me to begin? 
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 +**Presenter:​** What have been the biggest challenges here on b-Exagora?
  
-**Presenter:** Ms. Mayweathercould you tell us about your work here? What have been the biggest ​challenges?+**Lyla:** Wellof 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. ​
  
-**Lyla:** Well, of course, there were the riots, and the issues with NEXUS, but as for //​interesting//​ challenges, there 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 that we could first import bees, and...+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. ​B-Exagora has no native insect life, and it was decades ​after we began work before ​we could first import bees...
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