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Time for the Borg to make a come back
daviboi1983
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I think it would be great to have a Borg based expansion.
I mean a full on invasion event where planets are lost and the galactic map changes on every release.
The current episodic type releases are perfect for this.
Of course this would have to be supported by the voice over of the one and only Alice Krige!
It would be amazing if she developed an infatuation with the players character in a similar vein to Locutus and Seven.
Start with the discovery of a large dormant obelisk of unknown origin (like in the original concept art).
It’s been almost 10 years since we had new Borg stories.
I mean a full on invasion event where planets are lost and the galactic map changes on every release.
The current episodic type releases are perfect for this.
Of course this would have to be supported by the voice over of the one and only Alice Krige!
It would be amazing if she developed an infatuation with the players character in a similar vein to Locutus and Seven.
Start with the discovery of a large dormant obelisk of unknown origin (like in the original concept art).
It’s been almost 10 years since we had new Borg stories.
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I really think they could do a mini-faction of the Co-operative, should they want to, giving people the borg race finally, but upgrading the LTS version to keep them happy, with a mid range pay version in the store. It would allow for an actual Borg Rep that gives borg tech and borg related items to help complete your assimilated officer's look. It would also be great to give us the personal shield with the VFX from the Borg, with a mod like [Assimilated] - the more damage you take from a weapon type, the more your shield resists it, weakness against physical and melee damage. Cooperative ships would be the focus, with the lockbox ships being a Borg sphere and the probe as a lobi buy. Minor ships could be more assimilated versions of existing ships, like the Mirror versions but more science based.
as far back as when the Iconians were destroyed to the second youngest known major civilization was bad enough, I'd rather they weren't made into an accidental creation of Humanity.
I'm also pretty sure I read that people were pissed when they thought Discovery was going to give the Borg a connection to humanity like that.
Also you could see alot of reasons why they are able to do this from the Borg assimilating the ships of various races that were left in space during the Delta arc (imagine them assimilating a iconian ship, or one of the servator race's ships for example that were still floating out there), which thr assimilating that tech could lead to them leaping ahead into something dangerous again atleast for the races of the delta quad. This would also be a good point to remodel an rework the Borg into a faction/enemy type that is more interactive for the players to fight making them more interesting. I have suggested many ways that the adaption mechanic of the Borg could be adapted an changed to make it fun to play against, and yet also add some depth to fighting the Borg without buffing up their stats massively.
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Defera should be transformed into a Breen assault. Sounds much more interesting.
One or two FE on how the Borg Assault on Defera was defeated and then an unholy alliance of Terran, Nah'kuhl and breen move in to take the Borg tech for themselves.
There are a lot of candidates for that running the range from an aggressive biological or machine collective to an bad synergy with something (like the Elachi) that ends up corrupting the collective in some way, some threat thought long dead (like say Kukulkan's people) the Borg run across a few in suspended animation with enough strength of mind to turn the tables, or something that hitched a ride on the spheres from Andromeda (which could also lay the groundwork for a possible expansion in that direction for the future) or whatever.
The biggest problem with the Borg is that they cannot carry much of a plot by themselves, they are basically "bulletproof zombies" from a plot perspective and would need some kind of interesting face characters. The queen was introduced to try and provide that but the attempt was a flop, ideally they need to be working with, manipulating, or manipulated by some non-Borg types to take that role.
There are a lot of possibilities as long as the writers do it in an interesting way. They really need to stay out of the mindset that Enterprise had of trying to tie up all the loose ends as an end in itself, and concentrate on story instead.
We could certainly use new borg story stuff that expands on them but honestly... I don't want new borg content. They're kind of boring, their adaptation mechanic for ground stuff is annoying(as if we couldn't somehow program our rifles with our new tech to just automatically remodulate every few seconds completely negating their adaptation at all) and they can't just always be "The big bad"
Sto Season 19.5: The Borg King Awakens
The origins of the Borg? No thanks. Like how Ridley Scott gave us the origin of the xenomorph, a bunch of stupid black goo? Why do people not understand the concept of less is more? One of the major reasons why the Borg are so terrifying is exactly because no one knows where they came from.
I feel like there's something that WY is hiding. Almost like they knew about them beforehand. And as we know they have an interest in trying to weaponize Xenomorphs.
Some mirror Borg would be a nice change of pace from all the Terrans.
they haven't - there's borg wreckage near an opening ripped into the shell in the southern part of the contested zone
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I"ve heard from a few book series about the mirror universe that the Borg just simply don't exist in the mirror universe. Presumably whatever species first created them either died out, or they never reached the assimilation stage the prime borg did. They might be peaceful cyborgs or something but they're not a threat to anyone.
Borg (Mirror).
Gonna be honest, after reading that they sound stupid. I don't care about borg 2.0, they're just stronger versions of the prime borg. I guess the book I read that stuff from must've been really old or something.
But that sounds too much like, oh you heard about the borg? Well here is the Super Death Ultra Nega Darksider Borg.
Not necessarily. I've played around with a theory that Borg drones don't last forever (they are, after all, partly biological), so the Borg maybe run on a boom-and-bust cycle*, or maybe deliberately restrain their conquests to keep from running out of targets. We know there are species and civilizations they explicitly refuse to assimilate (namely the Kazon), and there's any number of small polities in the shadow of Borg home space that are still intact even though the Borg would easily overwhelm them if they wanted to.
For that matter the Borg could've easily overwhelmed the Federation back in the 2370s had they actually tried.
* Which was part of an overall origin theory for both the Borg and the changelings: the Borg were created accidentally by the Preservers (who then created the genetic program from "The Chase" to repopulate the galaxy after the Borg burned itself out for lack of targets), the changelings are a Preserver remnant population who transformed themselves to hide from the Borg (which was mostly a joke on Salome Jens playing both the FC and the ancient humanoid from "The Chase").
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I'd like to see the Borg returned to what they were - a faceless, endless threat, without personality or Queen. "It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead." Seeing a Borg Cube enter your sector should inspire fear, not bloodlust.
- Liberated Borg story-line (as it progresses and becomes free form the Collective)
- L50 start character
- Ships: Sphere, Diamond, Cube, Pyramid, Cylinder (last 1 as shuttle)
- Borg True Rep
- Nice Borg-like traits and T5 ship unlocks
I can agree that the Borg queen is weird as a concept with the Borg, going so far as to seem to be quite a about face for them, though i can see the idea of them creating Borg queens as a response to how powerful an resilient other races were that had individuality an to see if they could integrate or find the source of that power an resilience to themselves. I mean that is what they do they assimilate the best qualities of races into themselves, while discarding the rest an so why would they not try an assimilate a quality that seems to give a race that by tech an age should be steam-rolled by them the ability to resist an even defeat them. Though i think the Borg queen would make more sense in ways as a aspect or from a splinter group of the cooperative-Borg