All Hives

## Hive Duty Song

*The Hive is our world.**It houses and feeds us.**The Hive is our world.**It guards and protects us*.

 History

The first hives were relative small. They were marketed as a truly enclosed society. No pollution, no traffic, no criminals allowed in. All shopping and other amenities available.

Immediately perceived as a superior and safer environment, there was a huge demand for more. The first hives were extended and more were built with 70 to 210 levels. Other communities gradually abandoned.

Existing criminals were not allowed in, but new ones appeared. Large number of people packed close together became vulnerable to criminal nature. Crime and murder rates soared.

But by instituting genetic modifications it was discovered that certain characteristics and traits were actually valuable when previously classified as undesirable. Also, restricting who could have children not only resulted in a drop in population but harmed the gene pool so that some hives had epidemics because of reducing disease resistances.

Hives became isolationists, banning all casual travel between them in an effort to control passing diseases. Changing Hives became a permanent commitment and no one would be allowed to ether return or move to another hive after the initial move.

Hives reabsorbed their seed hives or merged with neighboring Hives and the assessment and allocation phase of lottery was designed and instituted.

All hives have some form of lottery, but it may not be the same as the way Hive England structured theirs.

At some period after surface living was abandoned and while hives were merging, hives began attacking each other for needed resources. Hives banded together and created a Joint Hive Treaty. Any hive that didn't sign the treaty were excluded from trade and if they tried to attack one of the hives that had signed all of the signature hives would send defense fighters to punish them. If a hive that had not signed was attacked by another hive that had not signed the treaty they would receive no help from one of the signature hives so it was in their best interest to band with the other hives. Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement was created and with very strict rules to prevent them from taking over the world.

## Hive Cities

There 107 Hives Cities in the world. So far only three Hive Cities have been named.

### Hive England

Hive England is the setting for the setting of the series.

### Hive Genex

Hive Genex is the Hive that tried to kidnap Amber.

### Hive Zurich

Hive Zurich is a Hive specializing in technology. Lucas's father was originally from Hive Zurich.

 Specialisms

Hives may belong to different categories depending on their attributes or specialisms. It is possible for a Hive to belong to more than one category - for example, Hive England, Amber's Hive, is identified as both a telepathic Hive and a leading specialist recycling Hive. Other Hive types include the genetics group which includes Hive Genex, the telepathic Hives (including Hive England and likely the hive of Celandine's birth), medical specialist Hives, and technological specialist Hives, which include Hive Zurich.

 Society

Qualities that were previously seen as negative were discovered to be desirable when channeled properly. Social changes were made to include all teens leaving home at the age of 13 and moving to teen level 50 where all teens became equal. People that would potentially hurt others are usually spotted during annual development checks or in lottery screening and are treated and channeled into being productive members of the Hive.Sometimes events happen that trigger them to escalate their behavior before being identified. Or they are intelligent enough to fake their behavior and go undetected until they commit a crime.

## See also

* Joint Hive Treaty
* Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Hurricane (Hive Mind Book 3) . Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Edwards, Janet. Telepath (Hive Mind Book 1) (pp. 54-55). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Perilous (Hive Mind 0.5)* (2017). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
* Edwards, Janet. *Telepath (Hive Mind 1)* (2016). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Defender (Hive Mind 2)* (2017). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Hurricane (Hive Mind 3)* (2018). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Borderline (Hive Mind 4)* (2019). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Adversary (Hive Mind 5)* (2023). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition