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    enigmaUnicomplex

    IDENTIFICATION: BORG UNICOMPLEXTASK: Centralize all collective operations. Coordinate.

    Borg Borg icon  Facility Facility - Outpost
    SHIELDS: no stateme

    Seeds or plays at any Space icon 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 Borg affiliation, play for free / report for free.
    Requires: Affiliation Borg affiliation, Drone.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    Unicomplex

    This Card-Review article was written by Sean O'Reilly and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Aug 14th, 2001.

    It's the Borg Headquarters... well, sort of.

    The Unicomplex is categorized as an outpost in the game for a number of reasons: (1) it's a space-based facility and all other headquarters have been planet-based; (2) an outpost gives 50% added SHIELDs protection to docked ships, keeping those Borg ships with point boxes safe from attack by the Hirogen and Kazon; and (3) you can seed a Spacedoorimage on an outpost to download a universal ship, something that can't be done at a Headquarters.

    Just like the Borg Outpostimage, the Unicomplex seeds at any Delta-quadrant space mission with no affiliation icons. Through the Borg expansion there are seven such missions to choose from. By using either the Interlink Drone (Nine of Elevenimage) or a Borg Vinculumimage you'll be able to scout the mission while skill-sharing even though the majority of your Borg are safely aboard your facility - away from the nasty Species 8472 dilemmas.

    Let's get to the special game text on this outpost:
    Once each turn, Borg Queenimage OR one unique drone OR one unique ship may report for free here.

    In the First Contact expansion, there were two unique ships, the Queen's Borg Sphereimage and the Queen's Borg Cubeimage. The Blaze of Glory expansion added Locutus' Borg Cubeimage, while Trouble with Tribbles got us our first black-bordered unique drone, Third of Fiveimage. The Borg expansion literally bubbles over with unique drones and unique ships. There's another ship for the Queen to command. The five "Borg children" appear as unique drones, while Seven of Nineimage makes her official appearance in an expansion, along with former unimatrix partners Two of Nineimage, Three of Nineimage, and Four of Nineimage.

    You'll now be able to stack your deck with a lot of unique ships and drones. And with the new Borg Queen, you'll be able to use your normal card play to get a Borg-use-only Event or Interrupt and then still play a unique Borg drone or ship to the Unicomplex. Pretty nice, huh?

    Finally, did I mention its SHIELDs of 74? Hey, attack decks, try and blow this thing up... yeah, I didn't think so!