Trade (Hive England)

*This article is about Hive England's Trade System. For more information, see Trade System.*

## Description

Liaison with other Hives and Joint Hive Treaty, set prices for personal and goods offered on the trade system.

## Introduction

Hive trade is first mentioned in *Telepath*when Amber's unit needs additional information.

Hive Trade is the agency for Hives to trade with each other, including material goods, medical or technical knowledge, and key personal.

Hives can be sanctioned for breaking the Joint Hive Treaty and not allowed to participate in the Global Hive Trading period, which can cause unrecoverable harm to a hive.

Hive England came very close to breaking the Joint Hive Treaty concerning Sea Farms in *Hurricane*.

Every hive participating in the Global Trade system is required to keep to strict quarantine procedures to eliminate the problems of the past when diseases spread from hive to hive.

## Global Trading

### Personal

Immediately after Lottery, two lists are sent to Hive Trade. One list is the positions that went unfilled and the other list is the personal that the Hive will consider trading. The people listed on the second list can not be imprinted for the 12 to 15 days that the global trading lasts, because anyone being traded to another hive can not take their imprinted data with them.

In theory hives can trade people without their consent. But it's actually impossible to complete the trade without their consent because the process involves them using their right to transfer Hives once in their lifetime. If they are unwilling to go to the new Hive, they can withhold their consent or they can exit the trading process by using their right to stay at their original hive.

#### Delays

Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement may delay the Global Trading period due to air travel disruptions or other factors. When that happens, Hive England delays the start of Carnival and Lottery as well, so that the people on the second list are not left in limbo for months.

Author Janet Edwards explained a bit more on how and when Trade is notified of the personal that is needed and who can be traded ..

> *The main Hive Lottery is the week after Carnival, and timed to finish just before the regular annual period of global trading of key personnel between Hives. In virtually all cases candidates will have completed their testing by the end of day 5 of Lottery. At that point, the Lottery systems will send two lists to Hive Trade. One is of the key vacancies that are still missing a suitably highly skilled candidate, and need to be filled by incoming personnel from other Hives. The other list is a lot longer, and includes all the highly skilled Lottery candidates that the Hive is willing to consider offering in exchange for incoming people. Those potential trade candidates have to remain without imprints until the 12 to 15 day period of global trading of key personnel between Hives completes. At that point, the candidates with agreed trades go to their new Hives and the leftover trade candidates get allocated and imprinted for this Hive.*
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#### Trading Center

On the Northern boarder of Hive England's territory there is a Personal trading center that is set up with complete quarantine facilities.

The trade negotiators and people to be transferred fly to the trade facilities, where they are sequestered in a clean environment. The other hive negotiators travel in a quarantine pod and done a quarantine suit that they wear when moving from the pod to a sterlized and clean environment of their own. Once the negotiations is complete, the person being traded will wear a quarantine suit and move to a pod from their new hive, where they travel alone until they reach that hive's quarantine facilities where they are sequestered and monitored for diseases and spy electronics. Once they are declared safe they will than move to their new hive.

The viewing chamber is like a giant pie divided up into 6 glass enclosed wedges, each one connected to a private clean room.

## Trading Partners

Hive England only trade goods with 19 other Hives as some of the others are too difficult to physically reach. They trade people with only 15 other hives, and preferably only with their inner circle of seven other telepathic Hives that speak the same language. The other hives that they trade with have similar language and social structures.

Hive England doesn't need much in the way of goods since they limit luxury items and are mostly self-sufficient, but they do trade people.

Hive England doesn't trade either goods or people with Hive Genex, but they could receive goods on the secondary trading market.

## See also

* Calendar Days
* Global Trade System
* Sea Farm (Hive England)
* Joint Hive Treaty
* Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Adversary (Hive Mind Book 5) (p. 217). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Janet Edwards says: October 21, 2020 at 11:52 am
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Adversary (Hive Mind Book 5) (p. 527). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* https://janetedwards.com
* Edwards, Janet. *Telepath (Hive Mind 1)* (2016). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Hurricane (Hive Mind 3)* (2018). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Adversary (Hive Mind 5)* (2023). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition