Beehive (mutant)

"Beehive" was a humanoid of unknown origin, known for it's peculiar property of being indestructible to anything short of a nuclear bomb. Its epithet was due to the pattern of holes encompassing its skin. Inhabiting the Gram city's ruins since at least the 2150's, it was worshipped by a cult of survivors of the Gram city's bombing, crediting the creature with their evacuation. It entered into conflict with the Wheel Empire in 2157, after massacring members of one of their expeditions into the city. He was captured by a young Moon Unknown, in his first notable and last historically recorded act, and is frequently an important figure in accounts of his ascendency to Peninsular Emperor.

Beehive survived Moon's reign and was extensively studied at the scientific capital of the time, where he was extensively studied till his death in the 2103 Urination incident. Despite it's non-verbal status, it was regarded as one of the best historical records of it's time, in the absence of anything else, and was used as a key witness in the Trial of the Lunar Court. Even today, the interviews with it are studied for information on major events of its lifetime.

Beehive remains a controversial figure in modern historical analysis of the period, with a significant contingent of historians claiming it is a fabrication of some kind due to its sheer inexplicability; as a post-nuclear mutant with apparent indestructiblity, and sentience despite no prominent nervous system.

### **History:**

The Wheel Empire was aware of a cult of a pock marked god in Kandy since their plateauan conquest, but only became aware of the humanoid's existence when half of an expedition to the runied Gram city, to capture deserters from the Telnad war, returned with accounts of a porous humanoid, "unfazed by bullet and blade".

The cult was led by survivors of the Gram city's bombing, who claimed their god had evacuated them out of the ruined metropolis. Sermons of the Empire's impotency against their god conviced Ivory Stick Forehead to label the cult demoniasts (the Juggernaut bombings were only a decade prior, and Imperial enforcers had extensive allowance in dealing with those labeled such) and their god a mutant trespasser. Officers were issued a challenge to capture the creature for the Emperor of the time's favour, but none succeeded till a young Moon Unknown, then only a Minor Chief.

According to a legend repeated in history books, the night before his raid on the city, Unknown was allowed in the Penitentiary by hs warden cousin, where he tortured High Priest First Dualist for information on Beehive. He learnt, then, that the humanoid was susceptible to bee stings, which numbed his skin, his only sensory organ. With this knowledge, he conquered the mutant and brought him, alive and docile, to the imperial court, where the impressed Emperor granted him a commandership, beginning his rise to power. This account is disproved by records of later tests on the creature, revealing no allergies, and echolocation as its primary sense. Neverthless, it is the only surviving account of the mutant's capture and the succeeding years, despite the numerous Imperial records that would have been kept, given Moon Unknown's later habit of destroying all records of his lifetime.

Ignoring further implausible accounts of the intervening years, Beehive's next historical appearance is in the Enlightened photographs, one of which displays it on Moon Unknown's leash, during one of his Imperial Processions in 2181. This photograph disproved the previous consensus that all accounts of the mutant fighting alongside the emperor Moon in the previous years were fabrications, based on the popular aforementioned myth which tied the mutant with Moon's ascendency to Emperor.

The creature returned to history with Moon's deposition in 2196 and the restoration of the Imperial Court and record keeping. Beehive, now confirmed to be a docile creature submissive to Imperial command, was transported to the scientific capital, and thoroughly studied for almost a decade till his death with the capital's destruction in 2204.