Attack of the Drones ( Star Trek 50)
The Son'a used transporter drones to forcibly relocate anyone interfering with their harvest of metaphasic radiation.
Dilemma - Planet dilemma
Opponent may download up to three Transporter Drones to this planet. Three personnel (random selection) face the Drones as if in personnel battle, then are stopped; lose 3 points for each personnel captured.
Bonus points: Textual description over 3 points. The player how encounter this dilemma may score them.
Characteristics: capture dilemma, Capture, bonus points.
Requires: Drone.
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Founder Secret ( The Dominion)
Searching for the source of a jamming signal, Kira Nerys discovered a secret door on the Founders' homeworld. The lock was designed to be worked by changeling physiology.
Dilemma - Planet dilemma
To get past requires a changeling OR Interphase Generator OR Croden's Key OR CUNNING > 40 and any tricorder OR STRENGTH > 70 OR four drones OR Breen CRM114.
Characteristics: wall dilemma.
Requires: Tricorder, Drone, Changeling species.
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No Loose Ends ( Deep Space Nine)
Seeking to purge all knowledge of the harvester virus, E'Tyshra captured Julian Bashir and Miles O'Brien. Keiko's persistence led to their rescue moments before they were to be killed.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Unless SCIENCE, OFFICER and Computer Skill OR Keiko O'Brien OR Resistance OR any drone present, kills all MEDICAL and ENGINEER present. Discard dilemma.
Characteristics: "Harvester Virus"-related cards.
Requires: Drone, Resistance.
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Oops! ( The Trouble with Tribbles)
In 2374, an ill-prepared band of Ferengi arranged a prisoner exchange aboard Empok Nor. Their profound lack of competence made the process even more difficult than they had expected.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Unless Leadership present, kills one personnel (random selection) and "stops" all others present. To get past requires three personnel OR three drones OR Nog.
Characteristics: Empok Nor-related dilemma, killer dilemma, wall dilemma.
Requires: Drone.
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The Weak Will Perish ( The Borg)
During brief telepathic connections, Kes learned the purpose of Species 8472's invasion of the Delta Quadrant. As the Borg discovered, they were quite capable of carrying out their threats.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Kills five ❖ Borg drones present (random selection) and each personnel present who has printed STRENGTH < 5. (Immune to Adapt: Negate Obstruction.)
Characteristics: Species 8472-related dilemma, killer dilemma.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
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Undetected Beam-In ( First Contact)
Borg refugees from a destroyed spherical vessel were able to beam aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise-E without being detected. This led to a nasty surprise for Inge Eiger.
Dilemma - Dual dilemma
Opponent may download to this location up to 4 Borg drones or Rogue Borg Mercenaries (they do not battle now). Nullify dilemma with Shelby OR 4 SECURITY.
Requires: Rogue Borg, Drone.
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Vole Infestation ( Deep Space Nine)
If gone unchecked, Cardassian voles quickly multiply. Chewing through power conduits, the prolific rodents pose a serious and widespread threat to computer systems.
Dilemma - Space dilemma
Unless hand weapon OR ANIMAL OR Guard Drone present, place on ship. Disables special equipment; all attributes -2. To nullify, evacuate ship at your outpost until end of turn.
Characteristics: place on ship.
Requires: Hand weapon, Outpost, Drone.
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Borg Nanoprobes ( The Borg)
Submicroscopic robots saturating a Borg's bloodstream. Injected into potential new drones, beginning their assimilation. Modified by the Voyager crew to use as a weapon against Species 8472.
Once per turn, where present, may abduct and assimilate one personnel just stunned by your drone OR nullify a Species 8472-related dilemma (except Gravimetric Distortion).
Requires: Species 8472-related dilemma, Drone.
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Maturation Chamber ( The Borg)
Functions: Prepare neonatal drones for integration into the collective. Protect and accelerate development. Restructure synaptic pathways; facilitate formation of thoracic nodes.
Equipment
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Once each turn, you may download to Chamber one ❖ drone in place of one card draw OR report to Chamber one ❖ drone (for free).
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: Drone.
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Activate Subcommands ( First Contact)
The Borg have huge numbers of available drones which normally perform internal functions for the collective. When a task is pending, some of these drones are activated.
Event
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Downloads one Borg drone, one Borg drone, and one Borg drone. Discard event and draw no cards this turn.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
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Alas, Poor Drone ( The Borg)
The Borg Queen searched tenaciously for the interlink frequency connecting the errant drones of Unimatrix Zero. Analyzing those she had discovered brought her closer to finding them all.
Event
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Plays on table. Once each turn, you may discard a or drone from hand or in play to draw one card (or two if drone was present with your Borg Queen).
Characteristics: affiliation, additional card draws.
Requires: affiliation, Drone.
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Cranial Transceiver Implant ( The Borg)
Borg implant that interprets and logs all instructions sent to a drone. Operates on an array of transpectral frequencies capable of transmission across hundreds of light-years.
Event
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Plays on your drone; it is CUNNING +2. If a Borg, once each turn, you may download any objective OR discard your current objective.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
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Retask ( First Contact)
Even a Borg cube ship can lose contact with the collective and begin marauding through space. Proper protocol re-establishment reintegrates it into the collective.
Event
Special icons:
Download one ❖ Borg Cube and seven drones ( , , , , , , ) to replace any Borg Ship dilemma in play. Discard event and dilemma. Draw no card this turn.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg cube.
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We Are The Borg ( Enhanced First Contact)
"Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
Downloads two drones; discard event. OR Plays on table. Each turn, report on of your cards for free or make an additional end-of-turn draw (immune to Kevin Uxbridge).
Characteristics: play for free / report for free.
Requires: affiliation, Drone.
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Unicomplex ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: BORG UNICOMPLEXTASK: Centralize all collective operations. Coordinate.
Borg Facility - Outpost
SHIELDS: no stateme
Seeds or plays at any mission with no affiliation icons. Once each turn, Borg Queen OR one unique drone OR one unique ship may report for free here.
Characteristics: Outpost, affiliation, play for free / report for free.
Requires: affiliation, Drone.
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Add Distinctiveness ( Enhanced First Contact)
Incident
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Seeds or plays on table. X varies, where X = number of icons on personnel you've assimilated as drones. Also, if you are behind by 40 or more points, once per game you may open a sealed First Contact expansion pack. Play or place in hand any or all non-seed cards in that pack (non-Borg cards are assimilated or stolen, as appropriated), then place the others out-of-play.
Point-Box on card: X bonus points (you score points, when you play or use this card).
Characteristics: bonus points.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
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Bodyguards ( Rules of Acquisition)
Incident
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Seeds or plays on table. At start of any personnel battle, each of your bodyguards and leaders who has SECURITY in that battle may exclude from battle one of your V.I.P. or CIVILIAN personnel. If you have a non-Borg Leadership personnel or a drone remaining in the battle, instead of shuffling your combat pile you may pre-arrange the order in which your personnel will fight. Discard incident.
Requires: Bodyguard, Drone, Borg species.
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Intruder Alert! ( Blaze of Glory)
Incident
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Seeds or plays on table; nullifies all seeded Memory Wipe cards. At any time, you may capture a one- or two-person Away Team in your Ops or assimilate one personnel intruder on your Borg ship or facility if your Talon Drone is present (discard incident) OR download Intruder Force Field (place incident atop event to protect it from nullification and extend its effects to all intruders on your ships).
Characteristics: Capture.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg ship.
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Long Live the Queen ( Blaze of Glory)
Incident
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Seeds or plays on table. Reveal (then discard) incident to do one of the following: If your Borg Queenwas just killed, download another Borg Queen. OR Prevent your Borg Queen present with your drone from being captured (drone is captured instead). OR Suspend any Regenerate while you place out-of-play from targeted discard pile up to six cards without a or icon.
Characteristics: Capture.
Requires: affiliation, Drone.
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One with the Borg ( Cold Front)
Incident
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Plays on table. Once per game, when you assimilate an opponent's personnel, place your drone present beneath your draw deck and discard incident to assimilate another of opponent's personnel present (random selection). OR Plays on a ship you have assimilated. While your aboard, worth points equal to ship's highest printed attribute.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: Drone.
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Reactor Overload ( Rules of Acquisition)
Incident
Special icons:
Seeds or plays on table. If any player has "processed ore" to draw two cards per turn at any one Ore Processing Unit, destroys that site. OR Seeds or plays on table. Place on your ship or facility. EM surge disables each android aboard until Cybernetics present; erases all cards aboard; kills each Borg aboard (unless drone in hive); and kills all Rogue Borg aboard. Return incident to your hand after either use.
Characteristics: additional card draws.
Requires: Rogue Borg, Drone, Android "species", Hologram "species".
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Android Headlock ( First Contact)
Although drones are physically stronger than humanoids, they cannot always overcome Soong-type androids. Data has strangled, thrown and "disarmed" various Borg.
Mortally wounds a Borg drone, Jem'Hadar, Rogue Borg or personnel who just engaged your android in combat. (Android engages next adversary.) OR Nullifies Borg Kiss.
Requires: Rogue Borg, Drone, Android "species", Hologram "species", Jem'Hadar species.
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Assimilation Tubules ( First Contact)
Specially-equipped drones use tubule-shaped talons capable of penetrating any known alloy or energy field. Nanoprobes in the bloodstream recode the victim's DNA.
Interrupt
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Plays during battle before the winner is determined. Your Talon Drone may select one opposing mortally wounded personnel present to instead be assimilated.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: Drone.
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Awaken ( First Contact)
Each Borg drone is tied into a sophisticated subspace communications network, allowing quick activation in response to a threat.
Interrupt
Special icons:
Downloads one or drone. OR Plays at start of battle to download to one of your ships at that location one drone (two if opponent initiated the battle).
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: Drone.
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He Will Make an Excellent Drone ( First Contact)
Having apparently seduced a new counterpart to join the collective with temptations of flesh, the Queen had no further use for her old "equal."
Interrupt
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Converts your counterpart to a drone. (Discard any Assimilate Counterpart objective placed on that Borg.)
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Counterpart, Drone, Borg species.
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Mercy Kill ( First Contact)
Assimilation is considered by many to be a fate worse than death. "Don't hesitate to fire. Believe me, you'll be doing them a favor."
Plays to immediately kill one of your personnel just abducted, captured or assimilated as a drone. OR "Kills" (nullifies) any one of your Event cards in play.
Characteristics: Capture.
Requires: Drone.
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Distant Control ( Cold Front)
Seeds on table. While your Leadership, Empathy, and Treachery present at Drone Control Room, your all-native Away Team present may attempt missions as the crew of your empty Drone-class ship (may not die unless they have Empathy, and may not relocate to spaceline). At the end of any dilemma, if no Empathy remains, attempt ends. You may not re-attempt this turn.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Drone-class.
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Borg Queen ( First Contact)
I am the beginning; the end; the one who is many. I am the Borg... I am the collective.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
When reports, selects any skill; may change skill at start of each turn. May downlaod A Change of Plans or a Borg drone in place of one card draw.
INTEGRITY: 6 CUNNING: 12 STRENGTH: 6
Borg Queen counts as "matching commander" for the following ships or facilities:
Characteristics: affiliation, Queen, Borg species, matching commander.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
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Four of Nine ( The Borg)
IDENTIFICATION: HEURISTICS DRONE
TASK: Secondary adjunct of unimatrix zero one.
BIOLOGICAL DISTINCTIVENESS: Humanoid; Species 571.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Computer Skill Honor MEDICAL
Once each turn, may place one drone present beneath draw deck, then download another.
INTEGRITY: 7 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
List of "personas" for Four of Nine:
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: Drone.
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Reclamation Drone ( Call To Arms - ST1E compatible)
TASK: Recover cybernetic components from non-functional Borg drones. Redistribute.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
Keywords: Drone.
Engineer Medical
When your Borg present is about to be killed by a dilemma, you may stop your other Drone present to place that Borg on top of his or her owner's deck instead.
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 5
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
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Second ( The Borg)
Immature drone of Brunali species; irrelevant designation: Icheb. A model of efficiency, yet failed to establish order among the young drones of his hive.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Icons (other):
Classification: No Classification
ENGINEER Astrophysics Physics
Youth Stellar Cartography Divert Power.
Doubles regular skills of other drones present.
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 7 STRENGTH: 5
List of "personas" for Second:
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: Drone.
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❖ Six of Nineteen ( Enhanced First Contact)
Identification: REASSIMILATION DRONE
Task: Repair and reintegrate defective drones.
Biological Distinctiveness: Humanoid.
Borg Personnel
Gender is irrelevant. Species: Borg.
Command & Staffing abilitys:
Classification: none
Exobiology Just before Rogue Borg present initiate battle, may download a ❖ drone to
replace (discard) one of them. Intruder Alert!
INTEGRITY: 5 CUNNING: 5 STRENGTH: 7
Characteristics: affiliation, Drone, Borg species.
Requires: Rogue Borg, Drone.
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