Island Nation, Kagoshima Space Center.
It belonged to the Island Nation Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and was the launch site for the Island Nation's deep-space rockets. It had been in use for decades and still carried out launch missions every year.
Edo Castle calmly watched the launch tower at the Muu Launch Site, his expression filled with ambition.
A small country had two space launch sites. That tiny detail alone showed that their nation's ambitions had never been small.
Located in an Island Nation plagued by frequent disasters and scarce resources, they were constantly reminded by yearly catastrophes to maintain a sense of crisis. That was why they had always been seeking new territory.
Thus, they possessed ambitions completely disproportionate to their size.
To them, the arrival of a new era was another opportunity.
Huaxia had successfully landed on the Moon and brought back lunar rocks, seizing the initiative in the coming transformation.
They had no share of Earth's oil resources, but the Moon was different. As long as they possessed the technology to develop it, the Helium-3 there would be inexhaustible. It was endless wealth, and the place where they could fulfill their imperial ambitions.
Huaxia had the Chang'e Program, America had the Hercules Program, Europe had the Dawn Program, Russia had the Yuri Program, and their Island Nation had the "Tsukuyomi Program."
The Age of Discovery had turned that island nation, Britain, into the empire on which the sun never set. If they succeeded, even if the next empire on which the sun never set did not belong to them, they would certainly become one of the world's great powers.
They had been suppressed too harshly by America all these years. Once the transformation arrived, chaos would follow, and that would be their opportunity—an opportunity to