An apiary is a system used to house various apiaristic entities ([[bees]], [[apioforms]], [[apiobees]], [[beeoids]], etc) for the purposes of generation.

Many modern apiaries harness apiocrustaceomagnetic fields directly to throw nearby [[apions]] into a 48-KL state, causing nearby Rust programs to generate many zeptobees. However, this is rather impractical for most users.

To start a basic apiary, it is generally recommended to start with comparatively safe "bees". Then, rotate them rapidly perpendicular to electroapiomagnetic fields. This will generate fluctuations in the apion field, which can then be politically charged to force movement into a bee condensation chamber. This is a rather inefficient apiary design, but works if resources available are limited.

Before the development of modern apiodynamics and solid-state technology, apiaries were designed as physical, human-managed structures within which beelike entities could exist and form hives etc.; modern systems incorporate much more advanced technology, autonomous programmed/AI management systems, and are capable of massively greater density, active stabilization and control, exposure of bee entities to desirable high-energy stimuli, and direct high-efficiency apiogenesis.

There have been many incidents in the past where improper apiary safety protocols have lead to [[Spontaneous tetrational apiogenesis]], also referred to as a VK-class "universal apiary" scenario. Modern apiaries' safety systems provide automatic [[retroactive continuity]] as a result.

While the exact designs of contemporary apiaries are extremely complex and in some cases classified/confidential/cognitohazardous, it's common for them to include at least these basic components:

* Bee holding chambers, in which the majority of bees are held at high densities.
* Field generators: bee management can be expedited by keeping bees within strong gravitational/electric/magnetic/apiaristic/communistic fields, so configurable systems to ensure this are present around bee-containing volumes.
* Extraction zones: it is often desirable to be able to move produced bees out of apiaries, but naïve bee removal can often lead to a superluminal colony collapse event due to rapidly changing apiaristic fields, as well as rapid and deadly decompression of ultra-high-pressure bees. This can also lead to other unwanted effects, such as political destabilization and spontaneous grill production, blocking the flow of critical resources to parts of the apiary. Extraction zones remove bees in a controlled manner, and transition them to external environmental conditions.
* Bee connection port: This allows critical apiary operations to be remotely controlled via protcols such as IPoAC, which is often important in larger-scale hypersentient linked apiaries. BCPL, the Bee Control Programming Language, is also supported by many GTech™ designs. These are also used to interface with the Internet to ensure favorable external conditions for apiaristics, although this is less important with recent advances in internal environmental control.
* A computational cuboid, responsible for all computation necessary to manage the apiary. This is occasionally offloaded to internal bees via distributed swarm computing, but dedicated computational cuboids can provide reliability advantages and lower latency.
* Bee synchrotrons - accelerate bees up to ultrarelativistic velocities using a varying magnetic field and RF electric fields to support other operations.
* Apination core - contains the extremely high-energy reactions used to produce new bees.
* Recursive production line: Apiaries commonly autonomously produce sub-apiaries within specialized reengineered spacetime to increase bee production pentationally. An imbalance in recursive apiary production can easily cause a Helvetica scenario of class 4.35 or higher, hence why dedicated bee design singularities are often trained to design fractal apiaries.
* Cryoapiochronoform pipeline: Cryoapiochronoforms are often useful in providing active cooling and temporal acceleration to apiaries, and thus efficient cryoapiochronoformic flow is often critical to efficient apioform design. This is especially the case in apiaries handling apiopyroforms and derivatives/integrals.
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