〔Technologies of Early Bronze Age〕
Brainpower requirement: 10000
Gives access to all technologies of the Early Bronze Age and previous eras.
1 unit of food feeds 10% more people.
Allows taming, keeping and breeding animals for various resources.
Allows cultivating plants for various resources.
Allows crafting and building from Early Bronze Age materials.
Increases building speed by 20% and building integrity by 50%.
Increases production rate by 100%.
Allows creating advanced administration that controls multitude of subjugate settlements.
Reduces the rate of death from accidents and wild animals within controlled territory.
Allows making basic art.
Each thousand of populace gives:
Each thousand of workers gives:
Workpower: +37 per 1 thousand workers.
Military: +38 per 1 thousand soldiers.
Brainpower: +1 per 1 thousand scientists.
Logistics: +10 per 1 administrator.
Resilience: +50 per 1 thousand medics.
+150% to total brainpower.
+90% to total logistics.
+10% to total brainpower per 1 thousand scientists.
+1% to total military per 1 thousand soldiers.
Those incredible bonuses were a sum of all my existing technologies and some that I didn't even unlock before this moment. Some of these were so obvious, the Bee Empire only didn't implement them yet because we were focused on other things.
Now, knowledge of things like calendars, money, alcohol brewing and weaving was lighting between the neurons in my brain. More importantly, I knew my girls will have—or already had!—similar understanding.
'To think about it… with each technological era, there will be more and more technologies I will get "for free" if this continues!'
And just as I was daydreaming about skipping side-techs to go straight to the juiciest stuff, the system hit me with more notifications.
〔Perfect Memory: allows perfectly recalling everything that you've experienced, saw or heard in the past.〕
'Aaaaah, what?! Just like that? Let me look!'
〔Population〕: 1698 thousand
〔Territory〕: 56520 sq. kilometers
〔Settlement count〕: 22
〔Development level〕: 6
〔Development points〕: 150 / 2000
〔Species〕: Common Honey Bee
> Building materials: 593 units
> Crafting materials: 1136 units
〔Military Adviser〕: increases total military by 10%. (Bloodhero)
〔Science Adviser〕: adds 10% of total workpower to brainpower. (Researchina)
〔Industry Adviser〕: increases total workpower by 10%. (Things-Things)
〔Economics Adviser〕: adds 10% of total workpower to military. (Workharder)
〔Culture Adviser〕: increases all total attributes and wellness by 3%. (Ambrosia)
〔Health Adviser〕: increases wellness by 0,05% of brainpower. (Tabletina)
Dance Communication, Hive Building, Food Preservation, Scientific Method, Feudal Government, Job Orientation, Primitive Flying Transport, Technologies of Early Bronze Age
It really happened. The new technological age boosted most of my stats immensely. Only resilience stayed more or less the same, while my logistics more than doubled!
And the Empire had more attributes, too. What they did was self-explanatory, although most importantly, they definitely mattered for my development points score.
As I read, incredible clarity settled over my head.
Things that were lost in the fog of time gradually sharpened. Although those memories didn't come to the forefront of my mind, I knew they were there, just waiting.
Endless pages of random trivia, game guides, entire movies and novels, faces of my family, friends and acquaintances, the taste of my mom's Thanksgiving Turkey…
Around me, my daughters were staring in confusion as I spaced out, but I barely paid them any mind.
Yes, these notifications happened in the middle of my inspection of Hive Supremo archives—I was still polishing our administrative machine.
Now the Archivists fell silent, watching me with concern.
A wave of homesickness made me sigh and close my eyes. Perhaps I suspected intuitively that the 'Perfect Memory' gene will act retroactively, and this was why I didn't take it back then. Just plain fear, that's all.
I had a new family, larger than any family a human can imagine, but I missed my old one.
"Father?" Lieutenant Archivist finally dared to speak. "Are you well?"
I shook my head and forced myself to smile.
The past was the past. I wasn't going to give into melancholy, even if just to spite the Bitch Goddess!
"I'm fine, just thought about something, girls." I said with a forced smile. "We can continue. So, you keep the non-specialist job assignments in this archive?.."
I wasn't listening very hard for the rest of the inspection, though, instead thinking about my new attribute points and the things I remembered.
Some of them promised to prove very useful in the future.
This evening, the Empire Council was gathered out of turn.
"It's *that* day again!" I exclaimed. "I will listen to your suggestions about my next gene picks."
"Wait, Father!" Things-Things exclaimed, raising all her hands for my attention. "I have things to talk about. Can we talk about my things first?"
Bloodhero straightened until her body vibrated with tension.
"Yes, Father! May we talk about other things first? I was given an urgent report from a scout that I wanted to present on this Council, since it gathered anyway!"
"It better be important, Military Adviser, or we will have another *talk* about responsibilities and rationality," Ambrosia threatened with a chilling glare, which then moved toward Things-Tings.
Since her last failure, Bloodhero studied sciences as she was ordered, and eventually, got a 'Researcher' title to boost her intelligence.
It didn't change her personality, but now I had more faith that Bloodhero wasn't misjudging things. Ambrosia, though, did her best to keep all Advisers in check.
I gave Bloodhero an encouraging glance, which she met resolutely.
"Father, the report is about the green giants!"