These words have stuck in my head long after that day.
After the first few creatures seemingly designed to kill me, the Bee Empire hasn't been a target for attacks—just another player in an extremely competitive field of rapidly evolving insects and germs.
But I felt like it'd be a mistake to think that we won't ever become specific targets again. Our enemies were just biding their time and gathering strength. Often while parasitizing on humans.
This was why, on the next Empire Council, not only I've given more resources to building mechas and training mecha pilots, but also on developing more advanced firearms like revolvers and back-loaded rifles and shotguns for bees.
Not against humans, but against smaller beasts.
Our gun development was already past smooth-barreled muskets, but at the moment, making something more advanced required too much effort per gun to arm an army.
