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The origin of the Borg is never made clear, though they are portrayed as having existed for hundreds of thousands of years (as attested by Guinan and the Borg Queen). In Star Trek: First Contact, the Borg Queen merely states that the Borg were once much like humanity, 'flawed and weak', but gradually developed into a partially synthetic species. Cryptic is offering a Star Trek Online deal that's futile to resist: Sign up for a lifetime subscription and you'll get to play as a Borg. They're the baddest of the bad, the leather-and-latex S&M. Welcome to Starfleet, Captain! Explore new worlds as you voyage through deep space. STAR TREK TIMELINES is the ultimate Star Trekā¢ strategy role-playing game. Set your phasers to stun and join Starfleet on an adventure through space and time to save the galaxy from temporal anomalies. STAR TREK TIMELINES brings together heroes and villains from all of Star Trek history. 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House of the Rising Snoo (Secondary).Note: We welcome ALL fleets at. If you want to recruit members or post news about your fleet, you are free to do so. I know a lot of people (especially with that poll we took a while back here) expressed a wish to play as part of a. Borg faction?I mean, don't get me wrong, it sounds cool, but exactly how would you, um, play? I don't suppose the computer would be giving you the orders? Or do we all have to hook in to voice chat and talk to ourselves in good-old hivemind fashion? Would you start out as a lowly drone in some forlorn probe in a faraway corner of the galaxy. What happens next? Does the unimatrix make you follow orders? How would you advance through ranks, etc?Alternatively, I have a solution to this conundrum, based on what's happening with our green-blooded friends soon. Why not play as a 'Liberated Borg'? Like part of that Liberated Borg / 'The New Collective' we saw in Star Trek: Voyager where they made their own collective, separate from the Borg? You play as a drone from this pseudo-republic-collective. Your main enemies are the Undine and #TheRealBorg, and you're own little mission to expand, explore, meet new species, make new friends.Maybe you're a Klingon/Human/Vulcan/Romulan who was assimilated and you seek to one day go back to the homeworld or make contact with the Federation / Empire / Star Empire once again? Since it's not the actual Borg, there might just be a more conventional system of ranks and whatnot, and tiers of ship - featuring not only the general probes and spheres and cubes of Borg lore, but assimilated ships from nearby species that you and your renegade Borg friends have salvaged or taken back from #TheRealBorg. Just thoughts.Also I heard somewhere that the mods browse this forum so who knows this thread might catch their eye. I said before:I know some people will question how the Borg could effectively made a playable faction given their nature, but I think it could work and work brilliantly.I'm mostly inspired by the events of 'I, Borg' and 'Descent' as opposed to the Borg as presented (for the most part) throughout Voyager and in First Contact. Hugh returned to the Collective and caused a severe disruption, as seen in 'Descent'. What I imagine the result, fluctuating over time, is a kind of Borg civil war - between those drones reclaiming their individuality (without rejecting their identity as Borg) and the old, hard-line, pure hivemind Collective as represented by the Borg we see earlier in TNG and in Voyager.Thus these Borg retain all their technology as well, which represents an incredible ability to communicate. And I thought of the perfect analogy to how this society could operate.It would be like Reddit.A vast, interstellar internet democracy, operating effectively by sharing knowledge and opinions far faster than being limited by organic constraints. Not dogmatic, but self-organizing.The dominant goal of the Borg was to achieve perfection - and they defined this as reaching a purely machine state. But as the rebel Borg reclaim their individuality from the Collective, they find emptiness - that anything they might have been was lost, washed away by myriad lockstep voices.They begin questioning. What is perfection? Where do they even start really knowing the answer to that question? Perhaps part of the answer - anathema to the old Collective - is that it isn't even the same for everyone.But they can create groups to share thoughts, experience, and knowledge along certain themes as a way to find perfection.The biggest problem is that they have very few ideas on where to start. So many ideas have been washed away by the overriding will of the Collective.Then someone has a bright idea. Shared instantaneously with billions of minds, and upvoted beyond belief: 'Hey, maybe we could assimilate some people, and ask them. Heck, we know how to do that!' I hadn't heard before about the Borg Cooperative, though, but I'm delighted as it adds even more potential weight to my idea. I've been thinking recently, instead of making a Borg playable faction why not make a few episodes where you get to play as the Borg?Maybe they could steal the story right out of TNG and you become assimilated. Or maybe at the start of the mission you and a FED/Kling fleet are able to disable and take control of a Borg cube letting you fly it.If they do a Borg playable faction they will never be able to truly capture how awesome playing as a Borg should be. If they do some episodes that let you play as a Borg and let you fly a Borg cube then they could make you as OP as you deserve to be.Plus the episodes would/could be very different from 99% of the ones currently in the game and would hopefully let them be more creative with future missions. Playing the Borg could be a lot of fun. What I would want is the proper collective, nothing sanitised, you are part of the collective and your gameplay is to assimilate and expand, you are one of the bad guys.To justify this I would liken the Borg Collective to the human body, my brain is in control (The Queen or collective mind for the analogy), but when I reach out to pick something up I don't consciously instruct the muscles and ligaments to do the required job to complete the action, subconscious specific parts of my brain deal with that - this would be the player in the collective. Missions would come in the form of orders from the collective mind, it would be up to the player to decide how best to accomplish that.Mechanically I would make this faction very different to the others probably describe them as 'limited but awesome'.Have a reduced or non existent levelling up - potentially a start of the story would be as a non assimilated character being forced into the collective for a bit of flavour. Remove access to the new rep systems and current fleet actions/stf etc and exchange. Implement a unique rep system to unlock advanced features as well as Borg Attack type Stf, the mission being to assimilate a planet, or destroy a fleet for resources to be used in building unimatrix, ie starbases. Finally pvp, one borg vs everyone else. Borg ships are badass, 1v1 shouldn't be considered but 20 Fleet Ships Vs 1 or 2 Borg could present a quite entertaining dynamic. I would really love a sort of liberated Borg type of faction. I'm a slight Borg nut. When I first thought about it, well, uh, it seemed a pretty far fetched idea. Creating a whole new faction like that might be a bit too much. However, now with what they are doing with the Romulans, some sort of Borg faction seems even more viable. Liberated or part of the Collective, I don't really care. I just want me some Borg.I don't exactly want to think about how to fly a cube. 'How do you turn this thing? Which way are we facing?' Originally posted by:I know that they are going to open up the borg as a playable faction. I do not know when that is going to happen, but it has been confirmed by the devs.I am actually not happy about this. I do not like the idea of playable borg. The Borg are suppose to be a race that share a hive mind. They are also one of the few 'big bads' that the Star Trek universe has.I've heard nothing about this.In fact I've seen that Cardassians are the next faction, and that the ability to use 2-4 other ships at once (Your own ships) will be comming to STO first (as it's been a long time goal)And @the OP- If you want to play as a Borg, don't be a cheap @55 and buy the Lifetime if it matters that much. You can get a free Bridge officer borg, and buy a 2/4 dollar officer as well. And the Borg being a playable race is one of the 'unique' things about being a lifetime subscribber. So taking that away, or making a Borg faction, would take away that reward. Originally posted by halolegend1337:i am mainly a star trek fan because of the borg sadly not many star trek games let you be borg so please can you make playing as the borg a thingnot hatin on the idea but in my opinion they need to revisit the borg species altogether, they are becoming severly underpowered in some cases which makes no sense. If our tech is getting better, then there tech should be getting better to. And what happened to the way they look??? They look like they been attacked by zombies or something, anyone else noticed they look to be missing hunks of there bodies? Of all the species in this game borg got the short end of the stick. The rest of the factions I like quite well. I have to agree with Miss Amanda Jones, borg bein a collective mind and all, making them a playable faction would blast holes through canon lore in my opinion, your character would have individual currencies, individual ships from the rest of the collective. Anyone else see how this would be a problem? But, a Hacked Borg Sphere as a lock box ship. Originally posted by:I know that they are going to open up the borg as a playable faction. I do not know when that is going to happen, but it has been confirmed by the devs.I am actually not happy about this. I do not like the idea of playable borg. The Borg are suppose to be a race that share a hive mind. They are also one of the few 'big bads' that the Star Trek universe has.I've been playing since the beta, I have not yet heard a dev say they were ever going to make the borg playable, quite the oposite really, especially since CBS said no.they might make a lockbox with the upcomming delta rising pack having the collective borg ships but not the actual borg.Captian Smirk confirmed that the bord were going to be a playable faction. From what I was able to pick up, it is going to be a liberated borg faction, hnot part of the collective. So, you will be playing a 'Hugh' type toon. Originally posted by:I've been playing since the beta, I have not yet heard a dev say they were ever going to make the borg playable, quite the oposite really, especially since CBS said no.they might make a lockbox with the upcomming delta rising pack having the collective borg ships but not the actual borg.Captian Smirk confirmed that the bord were going to be a playable faction. From what I was able to pick up, it is going to be a liberated borg faction, hnot part of the collective. So, you will be playing a 'Hugh' type toon. Considering Cardassians have been on the list for a while, please post a link of this information. Originally posted by:I've been playing since the beta, I have not yet heard a dev say they were ever going to make the borg playable, quite the oposite really, especially since CBS said no.they might make a lockbox with the upcomming delta rising pack having the collective borg ships but not the actual borg.Captian Smirk confirmed that the bord were going to be a playable faction. From what I was able to pick up, it is going to be a liberated borg faction, hnot part of the collective. So, you will be playing a 'Hugh' type toon.Oh man I can't wait to play as the bord! Originally posted by:Captian Smirk confirmed that the bord were going to be a playable faction. From what I was able to pick up, it is going to be a liberated borg faction, hnot part of the collective. So, you will be playing a 'Hugh' type toon. Considering Cardassians have been on the list for a while, please post a link of this information.I would be more then happy to post a link to the place where Captian Smirk talked about playable borg faction. But I do not think it is going to do you much good.As I stated in a previous post, it will not be part of the collective, it will be a liberted borg. As I also stated, this was not going to be right away, or even in the next expantion. This was a far off thing. I never said that the next race was going to be borg. Originally posted by:I know that they are going to open up the borg as a playable faction. Skyrim se staves of skyrim. I do not know when that is going to happen, but it has been confirmed by the devs.I am actually not happy about this. I do not like the idea of playable borg. The Borg are suppose to be a race that share a hive mind. They are also one of the few 'big bads' that the Star Trek universe has.Ummm. Where did you get this information from? Star Trek Online Borg InvasionPlease quote your source as everything I have seen/heard makes quite clear that Cryptic have NO intention of allowing playable Borg - outside of the Life Time Subscriber bonus of a Liberated Borg. Originally posted by:I'm not fighting or anything, but if they take away the (just about) only benefit of a Lifetime Subscribber. Well, that would be lame, and quite unfair. And if it's not the next race then it's just a pipe dream@Amanada because it took years to get romulans and it was requested from the start as a major faction. I understand that there's no definite answer but on it says that Borg was the product of cybernetic augmentation of living organisms that was advanced to the point where they ceased to be the species they were before that and became Borg. The hive mind probably started as the means of communication and sharing the information (just like the internet) and as species relied on it more and more (just like we are on the internet) they gradually lost the capability of functioning without it (just like we. Well, maybe not yet:) and became the hive mind. This was covered in David Mack's Star Trek: Destiny series of books. Whether this is considered canon or not is up for debate, but it's certainly a good story. To summarize very briefly, there exist a very advanced and xenophobic race known as the Caeliar, and their technology is such that they've replaced their bodies (which presumably were biological in nature as our own are) with particles called catoms. These catoms allow them all sorts of abilities. However, they require an energy source, one of which is located in the centre of each Caeliar city (/spaceship).An event occured whereby one of these cities was destroyed and sucked into the distant past. The demise of this city's power source meant that the survivors required an energy source. Over time, they became more and more desperate until essentially their concious mind (and morals, etc) was lost and their catoms' 'instinct' (for want of a better word) took over in order to secure their survival. Over time, the Borg were born: the Borg nanoprobes are a severely warped and damaged (and less capable) version of the Caeliar catoms.I won't spoil the books by explaining what beccomes of the Borg. And I have rather butchered the story there. Well worth a read of them to make proper sense of this. There's an interesting theory involving the Voyager 6 probe (V'Ger) mentioned on Memory Alpha:'Star Trek: Legacy' presented the theory that the 20th century Borg civilization was a peaceful race. When V'Ger encountered them, they studied its programming, repaired the probe, and sent it on its task. When V'Ger returned to the Sol system it could not find its creator, but 'a biological infestation.' The probe returned to the Borg homeworld and joined with them, and its programming propagated throughout the Collective. Something of a civil war broke out. Massive amounts of knowledge, including the location of Earth, were lost in the resulting conflict, and the Borg of the 24th century were born.I think it's a bit of a stretch, but interesting considering that nothing is still known about the machine planet. Speculation: In Star Trek: Voyager when they first meet the Borg, it is stated (maybe by Janeway) that the Borg only obtain new information by assimilation. Star Trek Online Play As Borg On YoutubeThey do not (or are not capable) of doing their own research (which is why Voyager is escorted across Borg space). I would assume that the Borg were at some point a primitive life form (it is not clear to me what the Borg actually are) which through practiced evolution through assimilation - and at some point they became technologically advanced (and therefore worthy of the name). Star Trek: First Contact has a lot of general information about how the Borg became what they are today; basically, they began as a humanoid race seeking physical perfection, which they explored by developing and then integrating mechanical elements into their physiology. Free Yahoo Games Online Play NowEventually, the more mechanical elements came to dominate the biological. The Borg Queen states openly while interrogating Data that she considers the Borg's biggest weakness to be their remaining vestiges of humanity (humanoidity?), something that the Borg constantly strive to 'transcend' as they assimilate and adapt (in contrast to Data, a sentient artifice who seeks to become more human). The movie however does not provide any specifics of timeline or of the name of the original race that became the seed of the Borg Collective. It seems they themselves have forgotten it as unimportant.
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