Yes. The books are all carefully translated from elvish and would have accounted for unit conversions.

It is. Legends was a wacky set.

Only when being transported into a hive. Other than the honey super, the queen is given full run of the hive in order to lay new brood. The physical gate is to keep larger things out.

2.0 now.

Alestorm if you like pirate metal. Turns out the whole band was being super racist in their group chat though.