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WTF happened to donatra, lets have your thoughts
johankreig
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Ok after a breif discussion on the sela thread, i thought may as well stick a full thread on, thoughts on what happened to donatra.
my points:
She retains her name, rank and uniform
Hardly apears to have been assimilated, no body plating etc
No Borg designation
still commands the valdore, albeit assimilated, which is odd, the borg seldom use assimilated ships, infact apart from cure found this is the only occurance I can think of.
Since when do the borg make use of escape pods
so wtf happened to bring us to this point, i remeber reading something about time travel, and that donatra was lost during an incident (this forms part of the background to one of my romulans, who is portrayed as being her sister Tal'is@johankreig if anyone is interested), so perhaps she has become part of a future collective, which is radicaly different to the current.
my points:
She retains her name, rank and uniform
Hardly apears to have been assimilated, no body plating etc
No Borg designation
still commands the valdore, albeit assimilated, which is odd, the borg seldom use assimilated ships, infact apart from cure found this is the only occurance I can think of.
Since when do the borg make use of escape pods
so wtf happened to bring us to this point, i remeber reading something about time travel, and that donatra was lost during an incident (this forms part of the background to one of my romulans, who is portrayed as being her sister Tal'is@johankreig if anyone is interested), so perhaps she has become part of a future collective, which is radicaly different to the current.
Jorhana Kreig: KDF, Tal'is: Romulan Fed, Shona'a: Romulan KDF, Johan Paul Kreig: Fed
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Well, I, personally, want a quest chain where you begin 'healing' her. Donatra was awesome.
keep the commenst coming, would be nice to get some ideas, perhaps someone can make a foundry mission from them (I would but dont have gold)
in one of the picard movies the borg shoots out an escape sphere when its parent cube is dying. This is sort of an escape pod concept.
While they seem to prefer their own ships, they almost assimilated the enterprise in that movie as well. Had they succeeded I think it would have been flying and used as a borg ship.
By 2409, the Borg not only field assimilated ships, they also construct them (Cure Found's BoPs, Raptors and Negh'vars). So, while not common practice in the 24th century, they've shall we say adapted. Maybe they've realized the massive monolithic cubes are not always the best option for fighting the clever and technologically advanced residents of the Alpha and Beta quadrants. Might be advantageous to fight them on their own terms with their own ships.
Perhaps after getting their asses handed to them so many times by the technology and tactics of alpha quadrant powers they are experimenting with retaining more individuality and adapting the specific tactics and technologies of us more directly, or perhaps Donatra was assimilated not by the collective but by some disconnected sect of rogue Borg like those who followed Lore, or the Borg Cooperative.
Now, here's my theory as to Donatra: She's an aberration.
Donatra's ship was creating artificial drones in the same way as the Khnial was in Mind Game, when something went wrong, either through error or sabotage. Maybe an artificial drone had its subspace beacon reactivated and drew attention of the collective, maybe a Borg console went haywire and started assimilating other equipment around it, maybe a test subject broke free and injected a guard or scientist with nanoprobes.
Whatever happened, the ship lost control of the Borg technology it was working with, and large portions of the ship and crew were being converted by it. It's not properly structured as part of the Collective, and the technology has been modified in various ways with some capabilities removed and new ones added to suit whatever the Tal Shiar mean to do with artificial drones. It's very Borg-like, but it's not completely Borg anymore, it's something new.
This is the point at which the Borg themselves show up, and find a mess of a scene where a Romulan vessel and its crew are already being assimilated by a technology that certainly looks Borg, but is fundamentally defective in their eyes. They do the best they can, plugging the mess into the Collective and enforcing some will over it, but it'll take time to restructure and integrate it properly.
Unfortunately, this happens near the end of the conflict in Gamma Orionis, and the Borg are losing a lot of ground to allied forces in Task Force Omega (both in the campaign missions and the previous STFs). TFO has just destroyed two transwarp gates, five cubes, and a fleet of light ships and is about to destroy or capture the temporal gateway. All five cubes in range to stop them already showed up and were destroyed, leaving Donatra's Scimitar the most powerful combat vessel in range.
TL;DR: What happens when the Borg try to assimilate one of those Tal Shiar Borg-adapted monstrosities.
Heres some pics, note the ears and shoulder attachments:
http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/sto.gamepedia.com/2/28/Donatra_and_Tosk_of_Borg.png
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Donatra
http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/www/98/88/9888dcc33665ddfc687c0b0bc667f7121341011701.jpg
http://i46.tinypic.com/rmka3s.png
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID15961/images/borgqueen(1).JPG
More the possible, is that the real Borg are still stuck in the delta quadrant, given the collapse of their transwarp network, or have written off the Federation for the time being until they can adapt to handle us. Not being able to do this in the future timeline, the New Romulan Collective, will begin a massive temporal invasion in an effort to colonize their armies in the past.
I'm totally claiming this now for myself, to use in the literary challenges...
Wow. The things you learn when you actually take the time in an STF to read the dialog and look around.
especially since you blow up donatras/queens ship... again at the end of into the hive.
The Destiny series and the books after that follow a different timeline from STO.