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In 2063

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zefram Cochrane achieved his historic warp flight

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an event which led to Mankind's first contact with

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an alien.

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species

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and launched a new age of peace and progress

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on planet Earth

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But there was more to that event than history

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originally recorded

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a year later

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while giving a commencement speech at Princeton University

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Cochran made some cryptic remarks about what really happened

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during first Contact.

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He spoke of

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cybernetic creatures from the future

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who tried to stop his work flight

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their ultimate goal being

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to enslave the human race.

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He claimed they were defeated by a group of

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humans

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also,

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Future

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no one took him since

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a few years later.

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We now know that dr.

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Cochran statements were not the imaginary plantings and eccentric.

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We now know that the cybernetic creatures.

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He spoke of were quite real

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and were members of perhaps the most patently malevolent

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and Relentless force in the Galaxy

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the Borg.

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Our weather is on the Picard.

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And their Collective State

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boy that I

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have mercy

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driven by one will alone

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Wilt Cocker

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are Beyond Redemption

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Beyond Reason

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and his captain Amazon of the Endeavor.

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It is my opinion that the Borg

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are as close to pure evil.

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As any race we've ever encountered.

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The Borg is the ultimate user.

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They're unlike any thread your Federation as a faith.

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They're not interested in political cause

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wealth or power as you know, it

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they're simply interested in your shift

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its technology.

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They've identified it as something they can consume

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the outer.

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For the first of all

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23 in a matter of hours

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our Centre vessels tossed aside,

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no defense against the storm.

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And by the time they surrounded our star system

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hundreds of Cubes.

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We had already surrendered to our own

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Terror

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invade our space

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and we fall back

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hissing let entire world

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and we fall back

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not again

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the line must be drawn shot

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as far Nova.

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Father

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I

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will make them pay for what they've done.

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The Borg are a massive organization of beans abducted

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from other species

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each genetically and cybernetic play altered to serve the

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collective at large as drones

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being wholly robbed of any sense of individuality

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the billions

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perhaps trillions of Borg drones operate as a hive

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mind

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all thoughts are only

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Those of the collective

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the society is analogous

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to an insect Colony

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with a queen

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at the apex of the hierarchy

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the Borg have spread their influence into all four

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quadrants of the Milky Way and Beyond

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into nearby Galactic clusters

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and even

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transdimensional Realms

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in their pursuit of new technologies and resources

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often destroying entire civilizations in their wake

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they apparently originated in the Delta quadrant thousands of

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years ago.

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But exactly how the board came to be

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and why they started their imperialistic mission of the

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simulation

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and question

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when a vessel or Planet catches the board's attention.

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They will sweep it with their senses

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then transport groans over 2A.

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Testing the technology up close

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if they deem The Vessel

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and its occupants

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worthy of assimilation

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They will announce

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we are the Borg

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Cube will be assimilated

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resistance is futile.

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They will then Acquire The Vessel by force

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and transformed the occupants into drones

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turning their bodies and minds and entirely over to

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the collective and it's purposes

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assimilation occurs in two basic steps.

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First

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the individual is injected with nanoprobes

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microscopic machines, which attach themselves to the victim's blood

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cells

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and begin to immediately

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rewrite the victims DNA

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second

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cybernetic technology

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is implanted throughout the victim's body.

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This technology includes a neural transceiver

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in the upper spinal column,

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which links every drone to the collective

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and a new row processor placed just below the

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rib cage to store all information

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and

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Instructions received from the collective

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other standard surgical modifications include the replacement of one

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forearm with the functional prosthetic

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and one eye with a holographic Imaging system

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once fully absorbed.

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The Drone is supported by the technology

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it no longer needs to eat though.

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It requires regular infusions of power

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and it can function in environments normally harmful to

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organic life forms

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such as

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the vacuum of space.

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Ace

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the new Borg drone is then assigned a position

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in the hierarchy of the collective

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and given a designation reflecting that position

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who of my

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primary adjunct of unimatrix zero one

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three of nine auxiliary processor of unimatrix zero one

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four of nine secondary adjunct

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of unimatrix zero one

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Borg vessels come in a small variety of geometrically

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symmetrical designs

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embodying their monolithic mentality

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and the philosophy of

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Section

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the most common form

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is the cube.

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The Borg cube is the standard Patrol vessel used

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by the collective to seek out new species and

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new technologies

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and assimilate them.

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When desired

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typically occupied by tens of thousands of drones.

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This vessel

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has a highly decentralized design

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with no specific Bridge

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engineering or living areas

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the ship can analyze an opponent's weapon systems

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and adapt defenses.

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Within seconds

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and it is capable of repairing major damage

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including

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direct phaser hits

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almost

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immediately.

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The second most common form of worship is sphere

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typically smaller than a cube and often with a

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specialized functions such as reconnaissance.

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The sphere

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generally holds a small contingent of drones

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the most highly specialized Borg ship is the one

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that holds the so-called layer of the Borg Queen

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the Borg Queen vessel is also

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Symmetrical and form

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with a diamond shape that houses a spherical inner

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chamber

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normally docked within the enormous complex known as you

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know, Matrix 1

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this ship provides the queen

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with a heavily shielded base

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from where she can choreograph the actions

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and thoughts

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of the entire Collective.

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The Borg Queen herself is an enigma

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the central locus of the collective.

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She brings order to the legions of voices within

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the hive mind

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providing a common Direction

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and off.

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Often speaks for the collective when such form of

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communication is deemed efficient,

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but she is a paradox.

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Who are you

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that is contradiction

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the Borg have a collective Consciousness.

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There are no individuals.

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I am the beginning and

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the end

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the one who is many.

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I am the Borg.