It\u2019s coming up on 7 hours since the attack. Making a log hasn\u2019t been my top priority, I\u2019ll admit. But considering I\u2019m a scientist and a starfleet officer, I suppose I owe it to my field and my duty to take the opportunity to observe and record what happened here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The communication from the Borg Locutus was broadcast throughout the ship, through the PA and cast on every screen. The combat was brief and devastating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
65% of the ship has been destroyed. There\u2019s no artificial gravity in place so we\u2019re using grav boots. There\u2019s only small sections where a few emergency shields have held. But it seems the Borg invaders have little issue with the vacuum between force fields, so they\u2019re able to make better use of the space than us. Eventually all the systems will fail and those force fields will go down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was trapped under shrapnel in the science lab and am one of a few survivors on this collapsing ship. We have no communication ability and judging from the wreckage we\u2019re able to see in the distance, few fared much better than the Saratoga. We have no idea what may be going on on Earth, or anywhere else. I can\u2019t let myself think about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once the combat ended (I assume the Cube resumed its course) the Borg put a platoon of Drones on the ship. I\u2019ll include descriptions of the Borg behavior in this log.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are 8 of us so far who have found one another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the first few hours after the attack, I observed the Drones that have been deposited on the ship. I did my best to be stealthy and was able to witness their behavior. But I also discovered (by being \u2018discovered\u2019) that the Drones did not react to my presence. I could even walk in their presence, ignored, but as soon as I initiated violence I became a target for assimilation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think my scientific background has given me a numbing salve against this experience. I find myself unable to hate the Borg. The Borg are not \u2018beings\u2019 to be hated — they\u2019re a force of nature. I could no more hate a tornado or an earthquake or a virus or a swarm of ants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is my first time seeing the Borg in person but I think it\u2019s safe to assume that their colony is comprised of a vast array of assimilated individuals, which would provide a spectrum of sizes. But it\u2019s clear that they\u2019ve classified themselves into specific roles — the Drones that have been left behind with us are all very large. And not necessarily \u2018strong\u2019 by definition, but *tall* — I\u2019ve even seen a few lanky Kelpians scavenging the wreck. I suppose strength isn\u2019t an issue for an assimilated body. Their purpose is to carry large containers. They are scouring the ship, collecting any technology that\u2019s not secured to the floor, then amassing the spoils in a central location. Padds, tricorders, computers, medical equipment. I\u2019ve seen them carve computer consoles out of a wall and float it down the hallway. They\u2019re separating the useful technology from the shrapnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They remind me of leaf cutter ants, preparing and collecting spoils to bring back to their colony. Even the Borg need \u2018raw\u2019 materials to sustain their propagation. In this case, we\u2019re the leaves. I think of these large collectors as Mediae Drones — the foragers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We found that phase weapons don\u2019t work on the Drones so we\u2019re forced to resort to projectile and close-combat weapons. The only effective way we\u2019ve found to eliminate a Drone is to destroy the brain or sever the head, which is quite difficult with the established Drones. It\u2019s clear that large proportions of organic tissue has been replaced by synthetic substance. Severing a Borg spine isn\u2019t an easy task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More crew must be somewhere because we\u2019re finding victims in varying stages of assimilation. There seems to be a brief period where the newly assimilated Drone is in a vulnerable state, mostly disabled as the technology replaces the victim\u2019s internal systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With little hope of rescue before full system failure, we have taken it as our mission to search for our crewmates who are being assimilated and terminate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If anyone finds this, know that we cut as many of our crewmates free of their grasp until we were taken ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lt. Lian Sun
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