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Urban Hive Development Cycle:jn04txt1.txt

The Hive Home Queen controls the production of Urban Hives. 
Bee society has long been too complex for the smaller natural
hives of the distant past. By building larger and larger hives 
at her manufacturing community of SeaPort Downs, the Queen has been
able to consolidate her power, titillating her subjects with
the advances of wax hexitecture, in a five year cycle of new designs.

Meadows 15911, this half-decade's Urban Hive, scheduled to go into 
production early next year, promises to quadruple the storage of scent
images over ScentHive 15906. The taxes imposed have only doubled, somewhat 
quieting the gripes of her subjects, especially Beasts and Humans, 
who don't utilize hives.

A delay of any kind is unthinkable in the production of next year's 
Urban Hive. Modern hives are more than wax caves . . . they are 
information processing and storage institutions, with the whole scent
history of bee cities fabricated into the transniffers of their RookWeed
wax walls, accessible at scenting stations to all antennas that can whiff.

But the wax that allows this scent-information storage is weak, and 
breaks down beneath sun-baking and weather. At that time, scents escape 
the walls and are natural attractants to insects and moths. Hive life is 
theoretically about six years at maximum.  Hive design and build cycles 
require the full five of those years.
 
The Meadows 15911 Urban Hive is the fifth Urban Hive to incorporate 
transniffer technology in its walls, depending heavily upon ScentHive
15906, which had a rudimentary multi-blossoming capability. CityHive 15901
was a single blossom hive, with all scent stations restricted to a single 
scent, and was not interactive. 

Pollen 15896 was the first transniffer hive, its transniffers used only as
a crude kind of public perfuming system. Odd background scents of unknown 
origin, however, were discovered and later deciphered, proving to be 
transmissions from a region called 'Earth.'
 
Waxware engineers were able to put some crude Scent-Browser features into 
ScentHive 15906, but Meadows 15911 was to be the first Urban Hive designed
from the start with Internet Scent Browsing capability.
 
At the outset of the BubbleLand Expedition, Meadows 15911 was already
in FreeBee release, i.e., the Bee Waxware Engineers of SeaPort Downs had 
moved into the Prototype 15911 Hive, and were soon to burn in the sniff-only
memory boot cells, in preparation for installing the entire SeaPort Downs 
engineering library.


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