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The BORG


Bravo Fleet Academy official release

The Borg collective, a three part report.
 

Part one, origins:

It is believed that the Borg started at the latest during the 20th Century. No matter when they started  it was because of one woman. The pre-Borg era on their home world had seen the invention of mechanical implants that were designed to help people with handicaps. These devices would be things that could replace a severed limb, but unlike a prosthetic limb, they would have close to the same characteristics of a normal limb (i.e. the ability to control it like it was that  person's natural arm or leg). A woman came upon the doctors with severe cranial and back damage. The doctor replaced those areas with these new implants, and sent the lady on her way. Some time later this woman found that she could manipulate computers without a keyboard, mouse or touch screen, but with the thoughts and a sub-space transceiver that the doctor had implanted on propose or accidentally. After this discovery she found a way to take over the computer systems on her planet, she redesigned all the implants so that they all had a transceiver in them. This allowed her to take over all the members of her race that had implants, and force them to as she wished. After she had completely taken over her planet and assimilated the population she did two things that assured her immortality. The first was to replace most of her body with cybernetic commonest. The other was to clone herself. These clones were identical in every way the this woman, also known as the Borg Queen, down to each component of their cybernetic bodies. After they had their bodies set the Queen gave them the information on how to control the Drones and gave them each a compliment of Drones and their own ship. Although some may think that this act showed that she had given up power it doesn't seem likely. This is her way of controlling more space with out the need to move every Borg along with her. The Queens on the ships extended the reach of the home world Queen to an infinite area.

    The Home world Queen acts the same way for the Ship Queens as the Ship Queens do for their Drones. But the Ship Queens don't have to stay in constant contact with the Home world Queen because they can think on their own more than their Drones.

    After they formed their Collective they rampaged the Delta Quadrant. Any civilization that had
technology that they came across was doomed.
 
 
 

First Contact:

    The first known contact between the Borg  and the Federation was in 2265, when Q transported the  Enterprise-D out of Federation space into the flight path of a Borg vessel heading toward the Alpha Quadrant. Following  this first contact, Starfleet began advance planning for a potential Borg offensive against the Federation. Lieutenant Commander Shelby was placed in charge of this project to develop a defense strategy. The anticipated Borg attack came in late 2366, when a Borg vessel entered Federation space, heading for Earth. Starfleet tactical planners had expected at least several more months before the Borg arrival, and thus were caught unprepared. Enterprise-D captain Jean-Luc Picard was captured by the Borg at the beginning of this offensive. He was assimilated into the Borg collective consciousness and became known as Locutus of Borg, providing crucial guidance to the Borg in their attack. Starfleet massed an armada of some 40 star ships in hopes of stopping the Borg ship at Wolf 359, but the fleet was decimated with the loss of 39 ships and 11,000 lives. As Locutus, Picard explained that the Borg purpose was to improve the quality of life in the galaxy by providing other life forms the benefit of being part of the Borg collective. Following the rescue of Picard from the Borg ship, a last ditch effort to implant a destructive computer command into the Borg collective consciousness was successful in destroying the Borg ship in Earth orbit. By 2368, at least two more Borg vessels were found to have reached Federation territory when a crashed Borg scout ship was discovered on the surface of a moon in the Argolis Cluster. One surviving Borg, designated Third of Five, was rescued from the crash by Enterprise-D crew personnel. This Borg, named Hugh by the Enterprise-D crew, was nursed back to health. During Hugh's convalescence, Enterprise-D personnel developed what they termed an invasive program, which, when introduced into the Borg collective consciousness, was designed to cause a fatal overload in the entire collective. In the process, Hugh befriended Geordi La Forge, a friendship that provided an argument that this invasive program, effectively a weapon of mass murder, should not be used.  Hugh was then returned to the Argolis crash site, where he was rescued by another Borg scout ship. Following the return of Hugh, Hugh's new sense of individuality began to permeate a portion of the collective. The results were dramatic: Deprived of their group identity, individual Borg were unable to function as a unit.
 
 
 

Borg: Present

Known Borg vessels:

Borg Scout Ship :
     Small Borg vessel, cubical in shape with a mass of 2.5 million metric tons. The ship generally carried a crew of five.  One such ship was discovered crashed on a moon in the Argolis Cluster in 2368.

Borg Cube :
     Huge cube shaped spacecraft, first encountered by the Enterprise-D near System J-25 in 2365. It had a highly decentralized design and Enterprise-D personnel reported finding no specific bridge, engineering, or living areas.  Combat experience showed the ship to be equipped with powerful energy weapons and capable of repairing major damage almost immediately, including the impact of direct phaser hits. Each Cube houses around 350,000 drones.



Borg Sphere :
     Smaller than a borg cube, the borg sphere is probrably the nucleus of the borg cube and "personal" craft of the borg queen, most likely and escape pod. The Borg sphere is a dangeroud weapons and starships that encounter them should know there is a queen aboard, and the borg will fight to the last drone to protect her.


 Borg Drones : Borg Drones are the army of the borg. They act as the engineers, security, and science officers of their ships, transmitting data to the collective, and receiving orders from the queen. These are the enemies countless races have fallen to, being assimilated by the drones into the collective, the individual's knowledge and skill becoming the collective's. This is the enemy starfleet and the federation will face, and hopefully we'll be able to defeat them once and for all.
 

  Borg weaknesses:
    Contrary to popular belief, the Borg have one major weakness. They cannot adapt to weapons of mass. Meaning, a Borg who is shot by a 20th century 44 mm could not send signal the rest of the collective, who would develop a invulnerability for it. This was proven twice in the Borg events on the USS Enterprise-E. First, in his logs, Captain Picard described a fight with the Borg, in which to escape several drones, he ran into a holodeck, and ran a program in which a 20th century Thomson sub-machine gun was involved. To "kill" or deactivate the drones, Picard removed the safety features in the holosuite and shot at them. Needless to say the were deactivated. Lt. Comm. Worf  supported this theory (although at the time, he didn't realize it) when all of the phasers could not be adjusted, because all possible combinations had been used, and the Borg had been invulnerable to them. Realizing this, Worf took out a Klingon blade and chopped off a Borg's arm, deactivated him. This is the only known weakness of the Borg.

 StarFleet preparations:
    After the attack on Earth by the Borg, the Star Fleet Admirality realized a more effective defense must be hastened into action. One of these plans was the creation of Bravo Fleet, the elite group of individuals guarding section 349, beyond the Klingon Empire, against a possible Borg invasion. Although the Borg threat has seemed to have winded down, the near possibility of the Borg attacking the Federation or Klingon Empire is enough for a proper defense to be laid down.

Information on the borg is sketchy at best, and new things about them are being tested all the time. In time the thereories contained at the academy may become obsolete, until than this is all information known on the borg up to the current stardate. More information as it comes to light.