"An anomaly has been detected. Classifcation: Unknown. Origin: Unknown." image - Star Trek: Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Star Trek: Armada III begins with the first stirrings of the Dominion War and allows players to take command of five unique factions, the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union/Dominion Alliance, and the Borg Collective. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
In the mid-23rd Century an immense and impenetrable energy cloud entered Borg space. Spotted first by a Borg probe, it was at first disregarded as an irrelevant anomaly, until further scans revealed something that captured the Collective's full attention - vastly powerful energy patterns, organised in a manner that indicated not only life, but great intelligence and technical sophistication far beyond anything encountered before.
Two Cubes were immediately dispatched to intercept the cloud. One of the Cubes approached the cloud as the other observed from a distance, and as the first Cube was apparently vaporised the Collective came to an interesting realisation - the cloud had in fact been attempting to communicate via a signal so fast and powerful it was difficult to detect. Responding in kind, the second Cube was caught in a tractor beam and entered the cloud.
What it encountered put the Collective in what can only be described as a state of awe - a living machine, immense in size, power and intelligence. The epitome of artificial life, totally efficient, completely logical and absolutely true to its purpose, to the Borg it was a manifestation of their ultimate goal - perfection. Apparently searching for something specific, the entity seemed to find the Borg wanting. The Cube was promptly destroyed, and no further attempts to approach the cloud were successful as the entity moved through and beyond Borg space.
This brief encounter had a profound effect on the Borg's collective consciousness. Attempts to duplicate the perfection they had witnessed culminated in the construction of a single, massive ship. A comparatively crude replica of the wonder they had beheld, it was to serve as a progenitor to the Borg's ultimate, inevitable perfection. In practice, the Progenitor is by far the Collective's deadliest tool, and has greatly added to the Borg's perfection by single-handedly assimilating or utterly destroying many civilisations.
Wait a minute... isn't that the V'Ger ship? A Borg manufactured V'Ger ship? That's pretty terrifying.
It is terrifying. It's 5h1t scary when it's in the same sector as a Borg starbase as well and you're trying to attack the area. It gets even worse when your AI friends abandon you too. Makes wolf 359 look like a party
its that dangerous? and I thought ticking off the tal'shiar was bad. (played as cardy vs an easy economic romulan and got murdered my Klingon A.I ally also abandoned me) want a cookie?
Didn't this ship appear in STO?
Yes, there are several of them that appear in Star Trek Online.
its the return of the double edged space *****!
Aww. I was hoping the hints of V'ger being somewhat of a creation of the Borg or the creator of them would be there. Weird theory on all of it either way.
V'ger is far beyond the Borg. The theory is that the Machine Planet supports a race of living machines completely unrelated, and much, much more advanced than the Collective. I think I speak for everyone here when I say that the dev team finds it lame when writers try to link everything with everything else. If you watch the Motion Picture, you find that other than surface similarities, the race that repaired V'ger is rather different from the Borg -- it's just lazy and overly simplistic to say that they are one and the same. It's a lot more genuine and interesting if the living machines are some unknown race lurking somewhere in the distant reaches of the universe.
I rather agree with this, I never bought V'ger as a borg thing or made by the borg, I like this "inspiration" though
Your team is the best.
Except that its cannon... just like the Klingon Genetic experiment fan theory, this one was actually adopted and made official... See the comics involving the Nerada being called to, then encountering V'Ger due to it's borg enhancements.
Comics are not Canon.
Attempting to link everything via retcons usually only makes universes feel smaller. See the Star Wars prequels as a particularly atrocious example.