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'crosslink': affiliation - related, Borg related cards

 

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This 'crosslink' shows all 'Affiliation Borg Borg related cards' cards (4x Equipment ,7x Event ,7x Incident ,10x Interrupt ,12x Objective).

 

Assimilation Table
EquipmentFirst Contact

Holds one personnel (occupant killed if table destroyed). Once per turn, in place of one card draw, you may download to occupant an Implant card.

Borg Data Node
EquipmentThe Borg

If present with a Borg Communication Borg, once each turn, may download one Adapt card to hand OR glance for 10 seconds at crew of any one ship or top card of any player's draw deck.

Borg Vinculum
EquipmentThe Borg

If your Borg Communication Borg present, all your Borg at this location present with a Borg Communication Borg share regular skills (each has every such skill at highest level). (Immune to Disruptor Overload.)

Maturation Chamber
EquipmentThe Borg

Once each turn, you may download to Chamber one Universal drone in place of one card draw OR report to Chamber one Universal drone (for free).

Activate Subcommands
EventThe Borg

Downloads one Borg Communication Borg drone, one Borg Navigation Borg drone, and one Borg Defense Borg drone. Discard event and draw no cards this turn.

Alas, Poor Drone
EventThe Borg

Plays on table. Once each turn, you may discard a Borg Communication or Borg Defense drone from hand or in play to draw one card (or two if drone was present with your Borg Queen (FC)).

Changed History
EventReflections II

Temporal. Plays in your core. When you win an engagement involving your Affiliation Borg ship, you may reveal the top card of the loser's deck. If it is a personnel you do not command, you may place him or her on that ship. (You now command that personnel).

Cranial Transceiver Implant
EventThe Borg

Plays on your drone; it is CUNNING +2. If a Borg Communication Borg, once each turn, you may download any Borg-use-only objective OR discard your current objective.

Regenerate
EventFirst Contact

Plays to fully repair and "stop" any Borg Ship dilemma or Borg ship (nullifying any cards reducing its attributes) OR to shuffle your discard pile into your draw deck. Discard event.

Retask
EventFirst Contact

Download one Universal Borg Cube and seven drones ( Borg-use-only, Borg-use-only, Borg-use-only, Borg Navigation, Borg Communication, Borg Communication, Borg Defense) to replace any Borg Ship dilemma in play. Discard event and dilemma. Draw no card this turn.

We Are The Borg
EventEnhanced First Contact

Downloads two Borg Defense drones; discard event. OR Plays on table. Each turn, report on of your Affiliation Borg cards for free or make an additional end-of-turn draw (immune to Kevin Uxbridge).

Add Distinctiveness
IncidentEnhanced First Contact

Seeds or plays on table. X varies, where X = number of Red Dot icons on personnel you've assimilated as drones. Also, if you are behind by 40 or more points, once per game you may open a sealed First Contact expansion pack. Play or place in hand any or all non-seed cards in that pack (non-Borg cards are assimilated or stolen, as appropriated), then place the others out-of-play.

Long Live the Queen
IncidentBlaze of Glory

Seeds or plays on table. Reveal (then discard) incident to do one of the following: If your Borg Queen (FC) was just killed, download another Borg Queen. OR Prevent your Borg Queen present with your Borg Defense drone from being captured (drone is captured instead). OR Suspend any Regenerate while you place out-of-play from targeted discard pile up to six cards without a Borg-use-only or Affiliation Borg icon.

Nightmare
IncidentEnhanced First Contact

Plays on non-Borg opponent if you have a Affiliation Borg card or Borg Ship dilemma in play. Each turn, peek at one to three cards in opponent's hand (random selection) and store at least one of them beneath incident. Nullified only by Plexing or when stored cards exceed cards in opponent's hand. (When nullified, choose one stored card to place beneath opponent's draw deck; return others to opponent's hand.)

Population 9 Billion - All Borg
IncidentEnhanced First Contact

Seeds or plays on table. If your Borg have completed Stop First Contact (or Build Interplexing Beacon), place incident on Earth; you may download a Borg outpost there. Your Affiliation Borg cards may subsequently report on Earth or to that outpost; and your subsequently completed Borg-use-only objectives targeting missions in the Alpha Quadrant score double points.

Resistance is Futile
IncidentThe Trouble With Tribbles

Plays on your completed Establish Gateway, Assimilate Planet, or Salvage Starship objective. Increases objective's points by 10 while your Borg Defense Borg is at that location. OR Plays on opponent's Q’s Planet. The 40 additional points it requires are irrelevant to your Borg while your Borg Communication Borg is at that location. OR Seeds or plays on table. Your Borg Navigation Borg may report directly to your Borg spheres.

Service The Collective
IncidentEnhanced First Contact

Seeds or plays on table. Whenever your current objective targets either a homeworld OR your mission that has an affiliation icon matching your counterpart there, your Borg are not restricted from probing on same turn they complete scouting. Also, while a personnel you've assimilated as a counterpart is on your ship, that ship is WEAPONS and SHIELDS +4 against counterpart's former affiliation(s).

Sphere Encounter
IncidentEnhanced First Contact

Seeds or plays on table. Each of your Borg spheres is RANGE +4. Also, whenever opponent initiates an attempt of one of your Space icon missions that you have scouted, you may report with crew to that location any number of Borg spheres (downloading spheres, personnel and equipment as desired); each may initiate battle (regardless of your current objective) or move away.

A Change of Plans
InterruptFirst Contact

Plays to do any or all of the following: discard your current objectiv; return it to your hand if you have Borg Queen (FC) in play; and download one Objective card.

Adapt: Modulate Shields
InterruptThe Borg

Plays and remains on a phaser or disruptor just used to stun or mortally wound one of your Borg Communication Borg. Your Borg are immune to all weapons with that exact card title.

Adapt: Negate Obstruction
InterruptThe Borg

Nullifies a dilemma (except a Q-related dilemma) just encountered by your Borg Communication Borg if your Borg encountered that dilemma (or a copy) on a previous turn.

Alas, Poor Queen
InterruptFirst Contact

Plays if Borg Queen (FC) (or Bluegill Queen) was just killed. All Borg (or Bluegills) in play of same player also die (Immune to Amanda Rogers.) OR Nullifies Regenerate.

Assimilation Tubules
InterruptFirst Contact

Plays during battle before the winner is determined. Your Talon Drone may select one opposing mortally wounded personnel present to instead be assimilated.

Awaken
InterruptThe Borg

Downloads one Borg Communication or Borg Navigation drone. OR Plays at start of battle to download to one of your ships at that location one Borg Defense drone (two if opponent initiated the battle).

Borg Kiss
InterruptFirst Contact

Plays if you just probed for Assimilate Counterpart. Ignore result, draw probe card and probe again. OR Plays to draw one card for each Red Dot on a male you've abducted.

He Will Make an Excellent Drone
InterruptFirst Contact

Converts your counterpart to a drone. (Discard any Assimilate Counterpart objective placed on that Borg.)

The First of Many
InterruptNessesary Evil

When your Borg is stopped while attempting a mission, discard the top card of your deck to unstop one of your other stopped Borg present. The Borg you unstop joins the mission attempt.

Three-Dimensional Thinking
InterruptFirst Contact

Plays if you have Borg Queen (FC) or a counterpart aboard one of your ships beeing destroyed. Immediately relocate any or all crew to another of your ships in play.

Assimilate Counterpart
ObjectiveFirst Contact

Plays on table. Target an opponet's unique male personnel. Your Borg may beam to and battle target's crew or Away Team. One of your Borg who engages target in combat may abduct target. If target is occupying a Assimilation Table, you may probe: Borg Communication, Borg Navigation, Borg Defense: Assimilated as a counterpart. Place on target. Worth 5 points per Red Dot icon while objective an target.

Assimilate Homeworld
ObjectiveFirst Contact

Plays on table. Target both an unassimilated homeworld on spaceline an your matching counterpart. Your Borg may scout that homeworld. If your counterpart is at that spaceline location, you may probe:
Borg Communication: Assimilated. Place on homeworld. Cards of that affilation (except Alternate Universe cards) may not report to any outpost for rest of game.

Assimilate Planet
ObjectiveThe Borg

Plays on table. Target an unassimilated, non-homeworld planet mission with a point box showing at least 35 points. Your Borg may scout that planet. After scouting complete, if you have Borg at that location, you may probe:
Borg Communication, Borg Defense: Assimilated. Place on planet. May download one Objective card.

Assimilate Species
ObjectiveThe Borg

Plays on table; target (name) a species. Your Borg may beam to and battle a crew or Away Team containing a personnel of that species, but may not mortally wound. At end of battle, immediately probe (draw probe card, discard objective):
Borg Defense: Distinctiveness added. If you won battle, and your Borg Nanoprobes or Assimilation Table present, all stunned personnel of target species present are assimilated.

Assimilate Starship
ObjectiveThe Borg

Plays on table. Target an opponent's ship. Your Borg may scout that ship. (Whenever no active Borg aboard target during your turn, you may beam one scout aboard.) After scouting complete, if your Borg have Computer Skill aboard that ship, you may probe:
Borg Communication, Borg Defense: Assimilated. Place on ship. May download one Objective card.

Build Interplexing Beacon
ObjectiveFirst Contact

Suspends your Assimilate Homeworld targeting Earth, if your Stop First Contact was nullified. Target a ship. Your Borg may scout target. If your Borg are aboard target orbiting 2063 Earth, you may probe:
Borg Communication, Borg Defense: Transponder rods are now set in place. Borg Navigation: If transponder rods set, place on ship; Timeline disrupted in 2063 and suspended objective completed.

Eliminate Starship
ObjectiveThe Borg

Plays on table. Target an opponent's ship. Your Borg may battle that ship. If they destroy it in battle, immediately probe (draw probe card, discard objective):
Affiliation Borg: Wreckage. You may download Salvage Starship.
Alternate Universe: Energy distortion. You may download Temporal Rift.
Borg-use-only: Collateral damage. One other opposing ship present is damaged (random selection).

Establish Gateway
ObjectiveThe Borg

Seeds or plays on table. Target a space mission with a point box, if not yet scouted. Your Borg may scout that location. After scouting complete, if you have Borg at that location, you may probe:
Borg Communication, Borg Navigation: Sector cleared. Place on location. Download to here one Transwarp Network Gateway (if possible). May download one Objective card.

Harness Particle 010
ObjectiveThe Borg

Plays on table. Target Omega Particle (download if needed; it is immune to Kevin Uxbridge) at your mission not yet scouted. Your Borg may scout that location. After scouting complete, if your staffed Borg cube there, you may probe:
Enigma, Incident, Objective: Perfection achieved. Place on location; discard Particle. Doubles point boxes of your subsequently completed Borg-use-only objectives.

Reassimilate Lost Drone
ObjectiveThe Borg

Seeds or plays on table. Target an opponent's non-Affiliation Borg Borg. If you have Borg Queen (FC) in play, you may probe:
Borg Defense: Coercion. If your Borg ship is at same location, target is abducted and relocated to that ship.
Borg Communication: Collaboration. If abducted target is present with Borg Queen, place on target (assimilated); worth 5 points per Red Dot while objective on target (10 points per Red Dot if target is One).

Salvage Starship
ObjectiveFirst Contact

Seeds or plays on table. Target a space mission with a point box where a opponent's ship was destroyed (or Wolf 359), if not yet scouted. Your Borg may scout that location. If you have Borg there, you may probe:
Borg Navigation, Borg Defense: Place on target. May search opponent's discard pile for one ship to place underneath objective. Add its special equipment to all of your ships.

Stop First Contact
ObjectiveFirst Contact

Suspends your Assimilate Homeworld targeting Earth, if scouting complete. Target Montana Missile Complex (download as necessary). If you have a staffed ship orbiting that location, you may probe:
Borg Defense: Phoenix destroyed here. Timeline disrupted in 2063. Discard objective. Suspended objective completed. May download one Objective card.

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