Editing Failing Witch:Volume1 Episode2 (section)

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Report on the crash of the JX-401 SSTO Broom God (30th and Final Report)

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To Ministry of <s>＊＊＊＊</s>,

Ministry of <s>＊＊＊＊</s>,

and <s>＊＊＊＊＊＊＊</s> Force Special High Altitude <s>＊＊＊＊</s> (classified unit)



Now that the United States has collapsed, we cannot expect any help from them. Selecting a replacement next-generation transport method was no easy task. We began this domestic single-stage-to-orbit project using only domestic contractors despite the foreign projects already underway in India, Brazil, and elsewhere because we wanted to break our country free of its standstill in the space science industry, but there was an <s>＊＊＊＊</s> during the final test at Tanegashima on <s>＊＊</s>/<s>＊＊</s>/<s>＊＊</s>. We detected speeds surpassing Mach <s>＊＊</s>, but the craft broke apart before <s>＊＊＊＊</s>. The craft is thought to have been badly damaged at <s>＊＊＊＊</s> and scattered its pieces above <s>＊＊＊＊</s>, but no actual wreckage has been discovered in the estimated region of ocean and the recovery operation has been exceedingly difficult. (→Details in a separate report. See the Ministry of <s>＊＊＊＊</s>’s ocean current prediction charts and the Ministry of <s>＊＊＊＊</s>’s recovery operation report)

The pilot <s>＊＊＊＊</s>’s fate remains unknown.

At midnight tonight, the search for the pilot will be called off and that task will be removed from the recovery operation until ordered otherwise.



(Hidden Note: The astronaut who was invited in from outside the Force – that cocky genius kid who skipped straight past most of his schooling – is among the stars now. Which is fine with me. If he wants to be reborn in another world or another dimension, let him have it. But the Broom God was packed full of purely domestic industrial secrets taken from all sorts of domestic companies. I don’t give a damn about that kid’s life – just let us collect as much of that wreckage as possible!)