Season 2: Collective

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The SS Ikoria is a normal common transport ship which operates between several other star systems and Illiran. The only thing that sets it apart is that the vessel survived an encounter with the Borg. Ten years ago, during the Borg invasion the Ikoria was struck by several Borg projectiles. While severely damaged she was rescued by a contingent of Starfleet ships and make it to a safe harbour. Unknown at the time a Borg virus was introduced to the ships minor systems, where it remained undetected until another chance encounter with a Borg probe ship on the edge of the Illiran system. Once again defying the odds the Ikoria escaped with only minor damage and put in for repairs.

Deep inside a back up CO2 scrubber, a newly awoken Borg nano virus becomes airborne. The virus begins a slow assimilation of the repair crews. Far below, the citizens of Illiran were unaware that the Borg were once again trying to assimilate their culture, the point of no return, the tipping point was now approaching. Millions were infected and it was only a matter of days, maybe weeks before there is no saving them.

The Borg Queen had once considered a similar form of assimilation, at the time she decided that other means were a better choice. The Invasion into the Alpha and Beta quadrants revealed to the Queen one irrefutable fact, conventional warfare with the Alliance was never going to work. The Federation is too powerful, too creative, and ingenious that assaulting their space with ships was doomed from the onset.

A more cover approach was needed, a nanite virus that would spread like an organic virus, slowly working its way through a population. It was even programmed to disguise itself as white blood cells in order to spread undetected.

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