On that day, I read the reports written on wax tablets, deciphering bad spelling and letters that smudged from warmth or poor handling, and wished we had paper.
But paper was invented way later than the Late Bronze Age. Before that, people had papyrus at most.
The wax tablets had reports on the progress of my Researchers, and what they all said was that, by all accounts, the Bee Empire had discovered most of the technologies of the Late Bronze Age, and even some technologies of the Iron Age?
We could make metal alloys, pottery, and even refine glass from sand. We had our first fabric manufactories and learned how to tan leather a while ago. And so on and so on…
'System, *why* I still haven't reached the next technological age?'
I didn't really expect an answer, but it came.
'Really? Can you tell me more?'
