Hive Politics (Hive England)

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

## Description

Liaison with other Hives and Joint Hive Treaty.

## Introduction

Hive Politics offices are located in Orange Zone, Industry 1. They are responsible for many of the decisions to do with Joint Hive Treaty and Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement. They are also responsible for all communications between hives, arranging treaties and often working with Hive Trade among other duties.

The senior members of Hive Politics are kept away from telepaths so that their minds cannot be read. One of the reasons is that Senior Ambassador and Ambassadors imprints include full details on the the other 106 hives. Lottery only selects candidates for those positions that have absolute loyalty to their hive and strong family ties so that no other hive could bribe them into turning traitor.

### Council of Gaia

The Senior Ambassador is the head of Hive England's Council of Gaia, as his diplomatic skills are needed to keep the disparate members working together.

## Members

Some of the members of Hive Politics are:

* Senior Ambassador Elliott
* Ambassador Paula
* Ambassador Declan - Specialist in Security
* Ambassador Francesca
* Ambassador Charlotte
* Diplomat Michaela - (newly imprinted for Senior Ambassador position) - She was sent to Hive Genex immediately after being imprinted and had to take on the role of Adversary while there
* Adversary Nalini

## Summary

### Borderline

During *Borderline*, Lucas and Amber have a length conversation via Dataviews with some of the members of Hive Politics, including Sr. Ambassador Elliott. During this conversation they learned some about Hive Politics and the ongoing investigation by Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement at Hive Genex.

### Adversary

A delegation from Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement and Hive Genex are at Hive England to establish the facts concerning the kidnapping attempt of Amber by Hive Genex. The story concerning the problems that Keith has caused them with a trade treaty
is told to Amber and Lucas.

#### North American Group Trade Treaty

In early 2529, right after the New Year festival, Hive Politics was negotiating a trade treaty with the North American group of hives.

Keith became curious when he found out something about it and went digging in secure records for more information. Between reading minds to get access codes and falsifying information and using that to blackmail someone else, he found all about the Trade Treaty that would have been hugely advantageous to Hive England if they won it out of the twenty hives that were competing. Keith sent a malicious message (content unknown) that wrecked Hive England's chances to win one of the spots in the trade agreement and seriously damaged their reputation and relationship with the other hives participating. Unfortunately there wasn't strong enough proof at that time for Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement to rule that Keith was responsible.

When Joint Hive Treaty was again at Hive England, going through their records for an unrelated reason, they found a piece of key information that did point to Keith causing the problems with the Trade Treaty four years prior.

In 2533, Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement found the last bit of proof that they needed to rule that Keith's actions were traitorous and that he had intentional meant to cause harm to his hive.

## See also

* Hive England
* Council of Gaia
* Trade (Hive England)
* Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Adversary (Hive Mind Book 5) (p. 46). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Adversary (Hive Mind Book 5) (p. 134). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Borderline (Hive Mind 4)* (2019). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Adversary (Hive Mind 5)* (2023). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition