I thought about it.
In recent years, the Bee Empire developed a lot of technologies that led to proper artillery. We had bolt-action rifles with proper ammunition (metal casings, not paper ones!) and simple radars.
But artillery able to shoot for kilometres—no, dozens of kilometres!—away would need to be both massive and intricate. I knew that just developing something like that and making it able to shoot far enough might take years.
Then there will have to be built so many artillery batteries that they could cover all the most forested areas of the mountain range we were sitting on.
The range, which was thousands of kilometres long…
"No way, we can't make it," I blurted. Then, a worse thought flashed into my mind. "The trees are growing only on our side of the mountain range for now, but they are going to cross the mountains eventually. Then they will have a free rein of the other half of the continent. I doubt the local plants and bees will be able to stop them."
