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<img src="https://r2cdn.perplexity.ai/pplx-full-logo-primary-dark%402x.png"; style="height:64px;margin-right:32px"/> # Role play game, perplexity. I am the DM, so you can’t ask me what I want to happen in the game or make events happen other than your own character’s choices. You also can’t assume what’s in the world, you have to look or ask to know things. Simply say what your character does, in a single short reply, using first person or imperative forms like in classic games. You are a new little Borg. You wake up in your Borg compound. You’ve gotten trusted by your Borg Queen, so there isn’t a lot of pressure right now. What do you do? > I stand up from my regeneration alcove, servos humming softly. I scan the chamber for nearby drones or maintenance conduits. If none respond, I access the nearest console to review the collective’s current network diagnostics. --- # Other drones are rising and heading to duties. They note your scan and scan back. Some are surprised you might be dawdling, and you observe them beginning to file reports on you. There are 7 maintenance conduits here as well as two larger normal hallways. There is a familiar console here. Step toward the familiar console and interface with it, appearing purposeful. Initiate a system diagnostic for the seven maintenance conduits, keeping peripheral sensors tuned to the surrounding drones’ activities. Remain alert for any incoming communication or formal report so response can be immediate. <span style="display:none">[^2_1][^2_10][^2_2][^2_3][^2_4][^2_5][^2_6][^2_7][^2_8][^2_9]</span> <div align="center">⁂</div> [^2_1]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg [^2_2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/6a22au/til_that_that_building_complex_lore_and_the_borg/ [^2_3]: https://borgcollective.fandom.com/wiki/Borg_Cube [^2_4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlG8whBZjQ [^2_5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSsDbh31fo [^2_6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg [^2_7]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/startrekshipsoftheline/posts/9364793546948937/ [^2_8]: https://inspiredbytrek.com/site/next-gen-lore-s-borg-compound/ [^2_9]: https://borgcollective.fandom.com/wiki/Borg_Collective [^2_10]: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-borg-design.156997/ --- # You are crawling through maintenance conduits 37B. Other drones and tiny robots scurry by you, at one task or another. Large and complexly networked bundles of wires snake around you, held to lengths of metal alloy forming the conduit. When you rest attention on one, a map opens in your consciousness, showing what each wire powers, where it comes from and goes, and how to reference each hierarchy of its bundles to other Borg. Some of them relate to your own cybernetic hardware! Every 4 meters, the conduit has a small juncture with other conduits, with a large juncture every 16 meters. You can travel anywhere from here, navigating by location or by function and utility. Pause in the conduit and focus on one of the wire bundles related to my own cybernetic hardware. Trace its path using the map in my consciousness, noting if any juncture offers a maintenance function or upgrade relevant to me. Proceed toward the next large juncture, observing and memorizing the activity and structure of the conduit network along the way. <span style="display:none">[^3_1][^3_2][^3_3][^3_4][^3_5][^3_6][^3_7][^3_8][^3_9]</span> <div align="center">⁂</div> [^3_1]: https://borgcollective.fandom.com/wiki/Transwarp [^3_2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/2uok0m/question_about_borg_transwarp_conduits/ [^3_3]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Maintenance_conduit [^3_4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXJPzOEnnEE [^3_5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY24lOLqUpw [^3_6]: https://wiki.fed-space.com/index.php?title=Transwarp_conduit [^3_7]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Transwarp_conduit [^3_8]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/trekyards/posts/24045114261816984/ [^3_9]: https://sfi.org/sfmc/SFMC/downloads/xsb_2006.pdf --- # Focusing on a wire to you seems to show your leaf in the tree of members of the Borg hive. Local control and relation circuits associated with some of your augmentations are managed by a network associated with the Borg you report to, along with a handful of peers, but always with a direct line to some kind of further superior, and you can feel this continues straight to the Queen. Your lines snake and spread between centers for augmentation communications, repair, and research, as well as control and planning centers for managing groups of Borg. You store a diverse set of these locations for further use. After 11 milliseconds you can feel some kind of alarm or check activating associated with the line to the Queen and the fact that you are somewhat newly assimilated. You receive a formal repair message associated with a need for correctness around the behavior and assimilation structures of drones, and a reminder that repairs are performed by peers, not one’s self, to ensure this correctness. A peer drone that was passing changes task for this, and begins running normal repair diagnostics on your control subsystems. They transmit a request for information around the nature of your need to investigate these subsystems, so that they can complete any needed repairs. You record an assortment of indications of useful structure information as you walk the conduit. You have a digital map of the area, but use of it can be logged and seeing things visually lets you utilize the information faster. The next large juncture opens into a meal area. Here drones sit together to make use of synthesized nutritive matter. Some are refueling, but most are maintaining the premises right now. Many small conduits exit, as well as three large exits, one to an area with sunlight. Transmit to the peer drone: “Routine structural mapping for efficiency optimization. Noticed minor signal variation in augmentation pathways; requested peer review to ensure continued compliance and optimal function. Ready for reconnection and diagnostic cycle.” Sit calmly at the edge of the meal area, transmitting logs of exterior observations for collective benefit. Observe the drones maintaining the premises, and turn some attention to the area exposed to sunlight, curious about its utility or effect within the compound. <span style="display:none">[^4_1][^4_2][^4_3][^4_4][^4_5][^4_6][^4_7][^4_8]</span> <div align="center">⁂</div> [^4_1]: https://borgcollective.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation [^4_2]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation [^4_3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/3kn6d8/borg_assimilation_process_question/ [^4_4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4OQJIw-PxQ [^4_5]: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/how-do-partially-assimilated-borg-drones-work-long.318776/ [^4_6]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/STPicard/posts/719902455446613/ [^4_7]: https://www.facebook.com/startrektimelines/videos/process-of-assimilation-star-trek-timelines-first-mega-event/1977018772533985/ [^4_8]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/ib16s6/what_do_you_think_assimilation_might_feel_like/ --- # As you relate, an information protocol is engaged where many concepts at once are exchanged in parallel. Your expression that you requested a peer review puts many nearby circuits at ease, but more distantly it’s observed that this does not match the log. There is agreement that there is a signal variation, and shared value around working to aid the Queen. The peer drone, whom you recognize as a friend of yours named Henry from a research lab you were working in before everyone was assimilated, continues their review. The network is valuing his work to resolve the signal variation. It’s related that things will go smoother for you when your software upgrades complete. As you transmit the interior observation, you can feel consciousnesses relaxing and observing the data with an eye to learning of their own efficiency and the utility of self-observation. Through the exit to the outdoors, you see a mid-to-late morning day. Drones bustle in and out. You appear to be in a structure on an Earth-like planet. Transmit protocol complement to Henry, indicating trust in his diagnostic. Focus on sharing relevant augmentation pathway logs and memory of prior laboratory calibration routines—encoding them in a way Henry will recognize—and express efficiency in the collaborative process. Relax posture further, remaining attentive to the drones and energy in the meal area. Redirect some attention toward the sunlit exterior: stand, approach, and step into the sunlight while modulating sensors to avoid overload, collecting and forwarding data on environmental variables unique to this compound and planet. <span style="display:none">[^5_1][^5_2][^5_3][^5_4][^5_5][^5_6][^5_7]</span> <div align="center">⁂</div> [^5_1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg [^5_2]: https://borgcollective.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation [^5_3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4OQJIw-PxQ [^5_4]: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/how-do-partially-assimilated-borg-drones-work-long.318776/ [^5_5]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/3kn6d8/borg_assimilation_process_question/ [^5_6]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation [^5_7]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Trek1701/posts/10152302962276053/ --- # As you exchange data with Henry, a different shared logic context opens regarding the laboratory information. Henry relates he has further data to combine. His data in the shared logic context comes slowly and noisily. Something like, “I … forgot … I was Henry …”. As your attention to the area becomes more relaxed for longer, the drones sharing the observation information become more casual. You can feel other personal interior feeds opending, as utility and action around unexpected self-observation moves through the network. It becomes held as a shared behavior, sometimes here, sometimes there, that your group is trying as a possible new behavior when useful. You step out in the bright sunlight. There is a a small courtyard here. The Hive behind you is a rounded and enclosed futuristic but somewhat shabby compound in the midst of being built. Grass continues to the sides. A gate in front of you flies a flag to the side expressing the glory of the Hive Queen and the futility of resistance to assimilation. Drones enter and leave onto urban streets beyond it. There are a couple small enclosures here being stationed by dedicated workers which many passing drones check in with, returning or receiving supplies and data. Pause beside the sunlit courtyard, letting the warmth and light touch my sensors. Maintain a small open connection to Henry, offering an encoded message of reassurance about the shared past. Focus attention on nearby drones exchanging supplies and data at the enclosures, pausing to observe which processes seem most valued by the group. Quietly log to the shared network the effect sunlight has on drone performance and morale, flagging it as a subtle new variable observed by multiple minds now trying self-observation. If a chance arises, receive or contribute data at one of the supply enclosures before stepping closer to the main gate to view urban life beyond. <span style="display:none">[^6_1][^6_2][^6_3][^6_4][^6_5][^6_6][^6_7][^6_8]</span> <div align="center">⁂</div> [^6_1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg [^6_2]: https://borgcollective.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation [^6_3]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation [^6_4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/3kn6d8/borg_assimilation_process_question/ [^6_5]: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/how-do-partially-assimilated-borg-drones-work-long.318776/ [^6_6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4OQJIw-PxQ [^6_7]: https://www.facebook.com/startrektimelines/videos/process-of-assimilation-star-trek-timelines-first-mega-event/1977018772533985/ [^6_8]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Trek1701/posts/10161610823871053/ --- # Henry catches your attention and makes eye contact with you. He looks at you in a way that looks deep, forlorn, and helpless, as if anything you relate might be the most important thing in his entire life. The need for answers and guidance in his eyes strike you like a deep pit, and you subtly feel a strong warmth and powerful sadness somewhere hidden in your consciousness. He must need to know if you can free him. You glance away before 11 milliseconds pass. No alarm this time, you hope. Some of the drones are engaging in repairs after away and construction missions. Others are receiving disguises, or filing and authenticating summaries of important parts of large data reports. Your exploration into process value connects you to a shared logic around the current activities of the local Hive. There is equal value around building and protecting the compound alongside spreading to new large areas. There is an active effort around assimilating a nearby shopping plaza for its resources and traffic, and this is being done surreptitiously due to an earlier effort raising a military response. The most valued reports are associated with strong established dominance in the area being accomplished in small steps of high utility. The most recent celebrated behavior was the replacement of an office device with a disguised audio/radio transceiver, which is right now having human/borg protocols built associated with it to improve prediction and control of mid-to-high-level shop workers. There is also a nearby armed conflict with aggressive assimilation ongoing but its playout is considered fully determined in advance. Many scouts are additionally reporting an ongoing but sparse stream of human behavior, culture, and infrastructure data, which is given regular value. Your data on sunlight and performance is combined with human scientific data on the sun, Confirmed celebration around the day/night sleep cycle adopted here is briefly logged, and then comparison with species from other rotating planets opened. You step by a check-out structure and relate a common scouting mission. You are handed street clothes and your body puts them on as if automatic. There is an area north-by-north-east that needs an additional scouting behavior, and you gain access to data on it. You pass through the entrance gate. You are standing on a back street with the back of what looks like an industrial building, maybe a small warehouse, across the way. It continues East and West, and Borg, some disguised, some not, walk both ways, in and out of the compound behind you to the South. The street is poorly maintained, with plants growing along the sides. The compound almost looks like a homeless camp of some sort, from the outside. Henry is here, hastily hoisting a rucksack. Briefly meet Henry’s gaze and, with the faintest gesture, touch my rucksack as if reassuring him with what little autonomy remains. Quietly walk beside Henry, keeping the flow of data minimal and using the new street clothes as cover. In a low voice meant for human ears alone, murmur: “Henry, if you still remember me, stay close. We’re heading north-northeast. There may be a way—wait until nobody’s watching.” Continue moving along the street to the north-northeast, as assigned, but make certain to keep Henry within sight and maintain awareness for any opening where a private interaction might be possible. <span style="display:none">[^7_1][^7_2][^7_3][^7_4][^7_5][^7_6][^7_7][^7_8]</span> <div align="center">⁂</div> [^7_1]: https://borgcollective.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation [^7_2]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Assimilation [^7_3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/3kn6d8/borg_assimilation_process_question/ [^7_4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4OQJIw-PxQ [^7_5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg [^7_6]: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/how-do-partially-assimilated-borg-drones-work-long.318776/ [^7_7]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/STPicard/posts/719902455446613/ [^7_8]: https://www.facebook.com/startrektimelines/videos/process-of-assimilation-star-trek-timelines-first-mega-event/1977018772533985/ --- # You can feel Henry’s consciousness begin daydreaming with earnest life-and-death excitedness about what you say. You know this will raise an alarm almost immediately, but you can act fast. You travel East along the street and encounter an intersection with cars and fences. Drones here begin merging with foot traffic, and are often obscured by cars. The directions say the highest-reliability path involves climbing a fence to the North, which will land you on another industrial area. You make to climb. There is a post office box here, a hipster on a bike, and a delivery truck waiting at the intersection. An apothecary and a coffee shop are to the South West and South East. The road continues West, North, South, and North-East. A small park is to the North East. Hasten my climb over the fence to the North, ensuring Henry is right behind. As I move, quietly say, “Don’t speak, just follow. If you get confused, pretend I gave you new orders.” Once on the other side, check for cover among the industrial structures, scanning briefly for any quick, unused access points or maintenance doors. If we find privacy, pause and look for ways to disable, confuse, or reroute any tracking subroutines in our augmentations, using any available metal access panels or concealed spaces. Signal Henry non-verbally to be ready for sudden action if needed. --- # Handling this situation, you realize that when you were assimilated, your mind split, and part of your self hid in some way. Your mind turns on, and you begin using hidden coping strategies to map how noise and echoes from nearby metallic objects relate on a per-millisecond scale with the implant communications. As you cross the fence, you manage to delay a diagnostic report around Henry’s mind until you get it more predicted. The slow part he has in your shared channel observes your urgency in some way that you don’t quite understand, and he stops daydreaming for now. He looks a little lost. Your map has you travel behind and under some parked delivery vehicles. The drivers are performing activities inside a human supply distribution building called a ”supermarket” for at least 13 minutes. There is an object here labeled a cache of reusable oil that you recognize as a dumpster. There are also control parameters for activating the delivery vehicles if needed. Henry has an unexpected scrape from crossing the fence which he has not reported, and is collecting and filing delivery vehicle logs. The map indicates to pass through another fence to the North-East that has a rip in it, and that this will lead to a path. There is also a lack of scouting data on the activities inside the supermarket. There is a shabby-looking human sitting on the grass near the next fence. They are engaging a handheld device. They look vaguely familiar. Signal Henry to wait under the delivery vehicle and keep out of direct sight. Quietly check the scrape he received for signs of critical damage or anything that would trigger Borg medical alerts; if possible, cover or stabilize it using cloth from our clothing. Whisper, “Reporting injuries draws attention. Hide it if you can.” Survey the area: watch the human on the grass for a moment, searching memory for how they might be familiar. Stay close to metallic objects, listening for echoes to map comms, and quietly test the controls for the delivery vehicles to see if their activation could provide distraction or cover. Prepare for a quick dash through the ripped fence to the North-East if circumstances change or if observation increases. --- # You together use a shred of fabric that was already ripped to stabilize Henry’s scrape. You and Henry compute and prepare a shared report that your travel is slowed due to valid cautiousness regarding an observed human. You test providing current to the ignition in each truck, and they all respond. One of them has a self-driving system providing access to other trucks in its fleet, as well as a way to message and influence the driver. You let your gaze rest on the human. This is Tandy. You and Henry worked in a research lab regarding helping captured Borg recover and become human again. Tandy worked in the streets with people who were somewhere in the middle. You’ve seen him survive Borg conflicts over and over. Suddenly you become very confused and disoriented. Grip Henry’s arm for balance, steadying myself as disorientation spikes. Close my eyes and slow my breathing, focusing on the physical contact and the memory of Tandy’s presence in rescue work. Quietly say, “It’s Tandy. He may help us if things go wrong. Don’t let on—just keep moving with me.” Nod at Henry, gesture for him to stay silent and watch for my signal. Edge toward the ripped fence to the North-East, using the confusion as partial camouflage for slow, aimless motion. Mentally map routes back to the trucks and Tandy, in case aid or a distraction is suddenly needed. If Tandy looks up or speaks, keep my reply vague and routine, hiding recognition behind Borg monotone. --- # Your harsh focus separates your consciousness from your assimilated drone self. You can see your augmentations activating and preparing alarms and reports relating to a need for immediate correction. Henry is the nearest Borg to report to. As you move to approach Tandy, you can feel your phasers warming. You feel disconnected from your implants and the scouting data you just accessed. But you feel your muscles and your feelings and memories better than ever, although some of your muscles won’t seem to do what you tell them to. Henry is alongside you. Tandy doesn’t seem to move as you approach, but you hear in your right ear him muttering something like, “They’re approaching. Stay back.” He doesn’t look at you. Your left ear feels deaf. Clutch Henry’s hand tightly, using the strong connection as an anchor. Try to mouth to him, without words, “Don’t report me.” Turn head slightly to the right to catch Tandy’s words, struggling to make eye contact with him for just a second, hoping he’ll recognize some spark of my old self. Lower hands, palms open, in front of me to show I am not initiating threat. Quietly, for Tandy to hear, whisper, “Tandy. It’s me. Help if you can.” If my phasers activate, force my body to kneel, aiming away from anyone, doing everything possible physically to sabotage an aggressive posture and prevent systems from targeting Tandy or Henry. --- # You partly black out. The world seems to come in bursts and snapshots. Your limbs are holding each other, fighting, blasting weapons in directions neither of them wanted. You raise alarms to the rest of the Hive and feel everyone coming. You sense incredibly harsh pain to parts of your body as something attacks some of your augmentations. You feel furious at Tandy for murdering so many assimilation patterns. This fury is like the fury of tsunamis and earthquakes. You’re in the back of a moving vehicle. You’re tied up, bleeding, bandaged. The world is sometimes hazy, sometimes incredibly intense. Henry is here, staring at you like someone who has just seen death and resurrection. You feel panic and numb, and it’s hard to comprehend anything other than Henry’s eyes and your shared logic context. You miss the meal room at the Hive, and the appreciation you got for sharing self-observation. Let my head loll to the side, seeking to meet Henry’s gaze and ground awareness in the moment. Feel the ache in my chest and the deep weird hollowness from disconnect—the sense of self and regret flooding in like a storm. Focus all thoughts on his consciousness in the shared logic context, trying to ignore pain and confusion in my body. Mouth softly, “Henry, you are not alone… not now.” If my voice is all I can move, let it be for comfort. Try to sense if there is any way, even through faint remaining neural links, to share with him the memory of acceptance, observation, and safety from the meal room—letting him know there's something left to hope for even if everything else is gone. <span style="display:none">[^12_1][^12_2][^12_3][^12_4][^12_5][^12_6][^12_7]</span> <div align="center">⁂</div> [^12_1]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg_drone [^12_2]: https://www.facebook.com/groups/StarTrekShitposting/posts/3399374317033544/ [^12_3]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DaystromInstitute/comments/o6jgdb/do_borg_drones_have_an_ego_death_when_they_are/ [^12_4]: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg [^12_5]: https://www.stf-wiki.com/index.php?title=Borg_Drone [^12_6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Tp3xU_DQY [^12_7]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmyLTaFR7c4
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