We didn't just lay down our hands and accept our fate, of course.
At the very least, we had to manage our resources better.
For this sake, I gathered the Empire Council and together with my girls thought through ways to better use the resources we already had.
Bees already weren't wasteful creatures, but the Bee Empire was a massive bureaucratic machine with countless chains and corners in which something could fall and disappear.
These things were inevitable when any bureaucratic system became large enough. In the Bee Empire, there were allowances and safeguards for the cases of unavoidable bee errors, but they weren't perfect.
The Empire Council ordered an extra inventory across the sub-hives and human settlements in the Central Region and its neighbours. There were also other measures.
