〔Archives〕
Brainpower requirent: 250
Allows training archivists.
Active archivists are considered administrators.
Brainpower: 10% to total amount per 1 thousand affected scientists.
Logistics: 10 per 1 affected administrator.
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Another technology that gave administrators.
I realized that I'd better implent it quickly, as well as feudalism, because my empire's logistics was way too low compared to its other stats.
And now that I was controlling not 1 hive, not 2, but 22—it showed!
At the mont, here was almost no trade with my subjugated hives, because their population was still mostly composed of dumb, sick bees. But in the future, managing them promised to be hell without good logistics.
In my original expansion plans, I was going to focus on logistics while my little princesses reared their first broods. However, a pandemic threw a wrench into my plans.
Researchina worked quickly—the first archive was built in a single day, and 5 Researcher Bees were made archivists. I thought about giving them a fitting title, but… 10 extra intelligence—what other title they might need?
In the anti, Researchina's subordinates cataloged most of the gathered plant samples.
And I was doing useful things, too! I t with Pollenia and while we bonded with her over a cup of nectar and a jar of at-on-sticks, I explained to my little princess how feudalism worked.
20 developnt points and a nice boost of 60 logistics. My other Queens had to learn the principles of feudalism, too—but I was going to send them personal teachers for it. Later.
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Finally, the actual research could begin.
The science! The dicine! The dangerous consequences!
Before everything began, I poked through the haystack myself. Sadly, my system wasn't showing statuses of plants, and I couldn't recognize any of them. At most, they looked familiar, but the only plants I knew decently well were ones that survived in modern cities.
Was pigeon a plant?
"Researchina, the first test must be for lethal poisons. Roots, leaves and stems of the plants should be treated as separate samples. Let the volunteers eat a small amount of unknown samples—a single pinch. Keep the uneaten ones."
"I understand, Father."
Most of the plants passed the first poison test—they did absolutely nothing. Bees couldn't digest the plant matter, but in small amounts, it didn't even cause indigestion.
Unless, of course, the plant was poisonous.
A dozen volunteers beca sick after the test, and the plants were noted as poisonous. Thankfully, after vomiting a bit, all the volunteers were fine. I was sure that their venom resistance genes helped a lot to mitigate the symptoms.
To make sure there were no slow poisons, I made the Researchers wait a day before the second test began. They spent it cataloging the results.
The 'Encyclopedia Botanica' of this world was going to be the size of three trucks and written on wax tablets.
"The second test, Researchina, is for the imdiate effects. So of them might be positive… But I wouldn't bet on it. Either way, the volunteering girls should eat a higher dose of the samples than the last ti."
In this round, 36 more bees had mild poisoning, but a few described different effects.
"I don't know… But I feel… A bit sleepy. More peaceful?" one of the volunteers described her sensations to the dutifully cataloging it Researcher Bee.
anwhile, several ters away, a volunteer bee was on the verge of sobbing.
"And I almost shat myself, right on the floor! I'm not a larva to shit myself! Father even invented outhouses, and I almost shat myseeeelf!"
"Uh… Sister, you are acting irrational… I will just write the effect down." A Researcher Bee began writing, but then noticed hovering around. "Father! I'm writing down 'excessive shitting' as an effect of sample S1049."
"Noooooo! Don't! Father, please, don't listen to her!"
I coughed in my fist.
"Write that down as a 'laxative effect', uh, Researcher Seeknow. Laxative ans, well, excessive shitting."
"Noted, Father."
"Faaaaather!"
I patted the sad volunteer on the head.
"C'mon… It's better than dying from a terribly poisonous thing. Rember, this might be useful for the hive one day! If a bee gets constipated, for example. Believe , it's awful!"
To my relief, the volunteer cald down at this.
Most other effects weren't as dramatic. Plant dicines were, after all, terribly unrefined. I longed for a chemical laboratory and qualified biologists, but what I had instead was Early Bronze Age technology.
But several potentially useful plants were already identified after the second round of tests.
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