"I think we found out the most important parts, girls—creating hive minds is not something to be taken lightly. They shouldn't be broken apart after they are created! So when we create the next hive mind, I want us to have a plan for their continued existence and work in the Empire."
After this declaration, I gave all bees from the late Hive Mind Wonderful-15 a pat on their heads and another word of gratitude for their help, and the Council moved on to our Council Chamber.
There, we worked on creating the plan I mentioned.
Since the hive minds were telepathy-based, they could only exist when every member of a hive mind was within the telepathy range of every other member of the hive mind.
Although this would take more tests, I believed that a temporary loss of a single mind from it wouldn't harm a hive mind as badly as its full dispersion… But a hive mind could lose cohesion after losing too many minds.
