Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement

## Purpose

Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement is responsible for the enforcement of Joint Hive Treaty, and the survival of the human race. It has emergency powers to act to ensure that survival. They gather evidence of violations and issue sanctions, and send their Valkyrie fighters to enforce their orders.

## Staffing

Because the hives were nervous when initially setting up the Joint Hive Treaty, they wanted to prevent the enforcement teams from having too much power and to loose touch with the individual hives, so they split the enforcement roles by male and female.
Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement is divided into two halves, which never physically meet. Male personnel run the judiciary and trading systems and lives on bases that are specific to those roles, while female personnel join the bases for the Valkyrie armed forces.

The Hives are responsible for selecting and sending children to work at Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement. Children are raised speaking the language of their home Hives. At the age of seven, children are sent to Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement, where they are adopted by parents.

### Adoptions

Both the children and the adoptive parents are part of the process of choosing one another to form new families. The adoptee parents first send their information and a parental statement to the children. The children then decide which ones they want to interview. During the interviews all parties come to an agreement or not.

## Duties

Their main duty is to uphold the Joint Hive Treaty, to the letter and they take it very seriously.

### Weather Monitoring

Mostly important to the Sea Farms and Hive Defense, but they probably send the weather reports to the hives for their Outside Workers.

### Investigations and Work within Hives

Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement is assisted within a Hive by Hive citizens imprinted as Treaty Facilitators, who carry out instructions from Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement in areas that their staff cannot directly access due to quarantine requirements.

All hives have a Joint Hive Treaty Enforcement Chamber that is a quarantine environment. It may be staffed permanently, which was unclear at this point but will probably be resolved in later books. It is clear that if there is any permanent staff they are not inspectors, probably simply liaisons between JHT enforcement and the hive.

### Global Personnel Trade period

The annual personnel trade period is usually held immediately after the hives main lottery. This is to identify those to be traded and to ensure there is no long delays that would make the personnel being traded, anxious and worried. If JHT enforcement delays the global trading period, most hives delay their lottery. Prior to 2532, JHT enforcement had only delayed the global trading period twice before in the past century and both of those were because of global air travel issues.

The 2532 JHT enforcement delayed the global personnel trading period again. They never gave a reason nor was their any other apparent reason for the delay. Chief Examinant Rune told Amber that JHT enforcement was experiencing problems, they investigated, but never came to a satisfying conclusion and it is still causing some difficulties for them.

## Bases

### Valkyrie

* Rakiura (on an Island off of the southern tip of New Zealand)
* Shetland (on an Island North of Scotland (northern tip of the U.K.)

## See also

* Joint Hive Treaty
* Global Trade System
* Hive Politics
* Sea Farms
* Hive Defense

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Borderline (Hive Mind Book 4) . Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Edwards, Janet. Adversary (Hive Mind Book 5) (p. 489). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Hurricane (Hive Mind Book 3) (p. 170). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Borderline (Hive Mind Book 4) (p. 343). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* 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