Hive Genex

## History

Hive Genex was one of the hives that early on manipulated the genetics of their citizens to increased desirable genes and to decrease what was considered as undesirable.

While allowing the valuable citizens with the ideal genes to have hundreds of children, all other citizens were limited to only being surrogate parents.

The restrictions policies had a massively damaging effect on the gene pool, reducing resistance to diseases and cause global epidemics.

Later they also discovered that some of the genes that they had initially removed from their gene pool were needed, telepathic genes were among the ones eliminated from some hives.

Joint Hive Treaty now requires all hives to allow their citizens to have at least two children with their chosen partners.

## Overview

Hive Genex speak a different language and uses the old-style calendar system with twelve months of assorted lengths and names. In some areas it is technologically more advanced than Hive England.

Hive Genex exerts control over its citizens' choice in partners by giving all babies a facial implant depicting their genetic heritage, which glows in the presence of a Hive Genex-approved partner. Choosing to have children, either conventionally-born or duty children, with a Hive Genex-approved partner gives citizens rewards like better housing and living conditions. Hive Genex is said to be eager to add telepath genes to its gene pool.

Hive Genex has an underhanded, ingenious method for stealing valuable people that was only discovered and thwarted through coincidence (the side effects of Amber's secret imprint) and Lucas's brilliant intelligence. During *Borderline* when Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement went to Hive Genex to investigate Hive England's claim that Hive Genex tried to kidnape Amber was it discovered that over thirty-years-ago, three citizens of Hive England were kidnapped using the same exact method.

### Genetic Group

The Genetic group of hives are *notoriously eager to expand its gene pool to include telepathic genes*.

Hive Genex gives baby a facial implant that depicts their genetic history. The implant glows whenever they are in the presence of an approved partner. Their citizens grow up knowing that if they have conventionally born children or duty children with an approved partner they will be rewarded with better living conditions. These glowing signs on their faces is evading the Joint Hive Treaty rules so the implants are removed for anyone that deals with Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement. When the implants are removed it leaves behind a redish mark on their cheek.

Hive Genex came up with the plan of imprinting children that had an ancestor that was a telepath to use their right under the Joint Hive Treaty, to move to their Hive. If they would have out right kidnapped them, then someday when Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement discovered that they suddenly had telepathic genes again, they would be asked awkward questions about how they came by them.

## Investigation

Subsequent to discovery that Hive Genex was behind Amber's kidnapping as a child and imprinting her to ask for a transfer, there was an investigation by Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement into the activities of Hive Genex. Hive England was invited to send a delegation to view the investigation and participate in the negotiations.

Joint Hive Enforcement investigators discovered that Amber wasn't the only kidnapping victim, but that three other people had been successfully kidnapped from Hive England, decades before Amber.

When Hive England's delegation arrived, they were unprepared for the discovery of other victims, so a newly imprinted Ambassador, Michaela was called upon to register the new claim for the three victims that had been kidnapped earlier. The three kidnapped victims were imprinted by Hive Genex and the information could be incredibly useful to Hive England, but if Hive England didn't file a claim immediately, their imprint could be removed by Hive Genex.

The three previous victims had been kidnapped over 30 years before Amber, with one victim requesting a transfer in each of three subsequent years. They targeted children that had a telepathic ancestor and had been born through the duty child program and adopted.

They each had been put into the Hive Duty program to have six children each, with other genetic material being contributed by a parent from and selected by Hive Genex. The 18 duty children were automatically included in the claim with their parent. One of the duty children was a bi-lingual True Telepath and the only telepath at Hive Genex.

Although Amber's Unit initially assumes that Hive Genex is extremely knowledgeable about telepathic development, events in *Adversary* indicate this is not the case. Elliott, Head of Hive Politics, *says that if Hive Genex had been able to identify true telepaths at age 3, they would have taken closer control of their telepath's upbringing*.

Adversary Aura's reliance on outdated theories about telepathic development as a central pillar of her Hive's case suggests that Hive Genex has little reliable information about telepathic development.

## Results

(to be continued after the next book in the series)

## See also

* Joint Hive Treaty
* Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement
* Duty Children (Hive Genex)

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Borderline (Hive Mind Book 4) (p. 209). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Edwards, Janet. Adversary (Hive Mind Book 5) (p. 141-143). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Adversary (Hive Mind Book 5) (p. 427). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Edwards, Janet. Borderline (Hive Mind Book 4) (p. 335-336). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Telepath (Hive Mind 1)* (2016). 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