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What would you do with the Borg?
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Fire up the inertial dampeners, retract all moorings and clear space dock. It's time to boldy go where no one has gone before!
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This is probably controversial, but i always disliked how the Borg seemed to assimilate for the sake of assimilation? It was sometimes explained as their way of growth or achieving perfection, but that always rang a bit hollow as a motivation.
If I could write a longer term direction, it would be interesting as a quasi-justifiable thing; have the Borg be the boogeyman in the dark of space, until we find out its collective drive to assimilate is a way to insulate itself against some greater evil.
I've always liked stories of eldritch horrors lurking in the depths of space, so one way you could do this, is for there to be something lurking in subspace; warp drive weakens the fabric of space holding it back, which explains the Borg using transwarp conduite instead. This horror would be able to easily subvert individual minds to its needs, but the collective acting as a whole could resist it.
A "bad guy" doing bad things for an understandable reason is much more interesting that them just being straight-up evil. So in general I would aim for something like that.
Voyager kind of did that with Species 8472.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Species_8472
I'd always assumed they were the result of implant technology going rogue, and over time it looks like what we see.
Kind of like the WH40k Tyranids, who are apparently fleeing something even more terrifying than they are.
Is that right? I hadn't heard that.
Well I heard it in a comment here, without citation. I just did a brief search and someone else said that lore detail has been superseded - sorry for the r.ddit link https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/mqa6ip/if_the_tyranids_are_running_from_something_what/
GW strikes again :D