Sea Farm (Hive England)

*This article is about Hive England's Sea Farm only. For Joint Hive Treaty rules, see Sea Farms.*

## Description

Most of *Hurricane* takes place at Hive England's Sea Farm.

Every Hive is required by Joint Hive Treaty to maintain a Sea Farm with a population of at least 10,000 adults and 2,000 children. The Sea Farm people live a low tech, self sufficient life style, near total independence from the main Hive. What the main Hive supplies them with, they could live without if necessary. They also supply the hive with fresh produce and perhaps other goods, but the supplies that they provide isn't enough to make a difference, it is rather a way to ensure that they always have extra goods on hand encase they need to supply more people than live there.

### Location

That Sea Farm lies on the coast, several days' walk from their main Hive. There are two paths between the Hive and its Sea Farm, and there used to be an underground connection for freight handling but it has long been abandoned. It is a popular destination for groups from the Rambler Association.

### Admiral

The leader of the Sea Farm has the title of "Admiral" and there are stringent requirements for anyone to be imprinted as the Sea Farm Admiral, because of these requirements it is very difficult to find a deputy, it took 25 years before Tregereth finally got a deputy for his position.

The Sea Farm Admiral is in charge. He and his deputy are the only ones imprinted with the truth about Hive and telepaths, all other people at the Sea Farm believe that Nosies are real. They are also the only ones outside of the main hive that knows the reason why Sea Farms are required under the Joint Hive Treaty.

In *Hurricane*, Tregereth has been admiral for 25 years. Juniper becomes the newly imprinted Deputy Admiral

### Security

Consists of a head of Security, a deputy and several others and all must be imprinted. Even though they are the local law enforcement they do not know the hives secrets, but only the information that pertains to the Sea Farm. Each region has a small outpost, with the main office located in the Harbor region.

They utilize drones and cameras to catch any criminals, once they have suspects the criminal is sent to the Hive to have their minds read to confirm their guilt or innocents and then that person goes through treatment at the hive before being allowed back to the Sea Farm if at all.

If they haven't caught anyone for the crime, they round up the "usual suspects" or a group of people that are the most likely culprits and send them to the hive to be either cleared or confirmed as the criminal.

When people are sent to the hive to have their minds read, they are so overwhelmed with fear that borderline telepaths insights are useless in determining their guilt. They all believe in the Nosy mythology but a true telepath actually reads their mind. Morton has been the telepath dealing with the Sea Farm people for over forty years, but he finds it extremely difficult. In *Borderline* Amber takes over that duty.

### Safe Harbor

The Sea Farm has a safe harbor protected by a wall and gate, that by treaty must be open to foreign fishing fleets when they are fleeing storms. In such cases, their crews are hosted in a special hospitality area of the Sea Farm's miniature Hive, "Haven".

## Life Style

### The Haven

Is the mini Hive at the sea farm, it is built into a hill and the exposed areas have windows.
The top or 1st level contains offices for the admiral and security, an airplane hangar as well as storage areas.

All people living at the sea farm have an apartment on either the 2nd or 3rd level of the Hive but they only take shelter there during damaging storms, the rest of the time they live in a single family house in one of the various regions.

During *Hurricane* Amber's people figure out that the Haven will hold about 200,000 people. They also discover that there is a glass room called the observatory on the beach exit on the lowest level.

### Teens

Sea farm teens live at home with their parents and only go to the hive for about a month prior to lottery if they are going for imprint status. The sea farm people have a choice to be imprinted with a career or not to. Before that, they go through various apprenticeships to learn skills, some of which will require imprinting if they want to continue on in that field, but lottery does not guarantee that is where they will be assigned afterwards.

During *Hurricane*, Lucas runs a test lottery on Juniper, where she can go through lottery's assessment and optimization stages and then decide if she wants to be imprinted with the work that lottery decides is best for her. With this new procedure it is hoped that more teens will choose to go through lottery. When Juniper agrees, the admiral approves this new plan.

### New People

After each lottery at the Hive, a few people are sent to the Sea Farm in part it is to refresh the gene pool. After the Blue Zone Power Cut in 2531 a few more people arrived at the Sea Farm, those that found it unbearable to continue living at the hive.

### Regions

The Sea Farm has four areas. There is an electric train-like vehicle that connects them in a single direction, going round all of the regions and with a limited schedule.

The **River** isn't considered a separate area, it seems to be situated between Harvest and Tropics areas. The boat building area is near where the river and sea meets as the lumber comes down the river from the mill saws. The other Mills, to grind grain, are situated near the river too to take advantage of the running water for power.

Harvest
is the area with most of the agriculture - grains and vegetable crops. The blacksmith center is located there as it is nearest to the iron mines.
Tropics
The tropics area has the glasshouses (Greenhouses) used to grow food during the winter months or food that requires year round sunlight and heat, orchards and gardens as well as glassworks, where all glass items are created.
High Fold
Where the grazing land for most of the livestock (cattle, sheep, goats) and a veterinary center is located. Many of the families in all regions keep their own chickens and some horses.
Harbor
is the area around the fishing harbor with its sea wall and gates. And where the Mini Hive is situated.
### Conditioning

The inhabitants of the Sea Farm are not conditioned to fear the Outside, since most of them work there, and most would hate to live in the Hive, with its dreaded Nosies. They call the Hive population "moles", "daylight moles" in the case of people who can bear to be outside the Hive.

### Fading

The population can vary since in summer especially, some of the people "fade" - i.e., they leave the Sea Farm to spend time in the more or less derelict houses and farms in the surrounding countryside. They usually return in the winter, since these old houses are not safe during storms or adequate protection against winter.

### Miscellaneous

The people of the sea farm do all of their own clothes making, including spinning thread and weaving fabric. Most of this is done in their homes.

To some extent, they use solar and wind generators for power.

Their communications devices go through the nearby Hive Defense station.

The Sea Farm celebrates New Year with fireworks.

## See also

* Hive England
* Sea Farms

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Hurricane (Hive Mind Book 3) (p. 83). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Hurricane (Hive Mind Book 3) (p. 254). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Hurricane (Hive Mind 3)* (2018). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition