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This is story told by one who knows the history of the Borg, and his here to relive it.
While encounters with the Borg are still rare, the time line we have chosen for ourselves runs mirky from lost lost memories. The Borg are a problem that might have ended mankind in a few generations. That was not to be. We had to fight for our existence. We will have to make a decision that will end all of a living thing, everywhere. For all the creatures that have come and gone the Borg nearly survived for the lack of conviction.
The Borg didn't start as we know them. The Borg are a consequence of peace.
When an intelligent being wants to control that which is too simple to out-smart, too small to squash, that being wants to control disease, cure cancer, mend bones, repair tissue, enforce laws ... the last is the Achilles' heel.
When we finally defeated the Borg, wiped them out, we learned much from them. The most useful contraption acquired in our trial are nanobots. They do all the things listed here and many times more. There were creatures, I'll call them people, from a time before mankind who desired to eliminate disease and make themselves live lives free of injury and pain. Some say they wanted immortality. The Borg nearly obtained it. To this end they wrought upon the fabric of life, nanobots. A name a child might call a new toy. Striking terror at first for the fear of joining the Borg, then becoming part of our existence the nanobots will simply chose a new host, us, from which to extend their legacy.
It takes a short while, after the Borg leave our sight, that we want the life without pain or fear of injury. We find some mistake made by those people so long ago. They tried to use the source of their salvation to control those in their own world who did not fit in, criminals. The nanobots, used for communication in the military and civilian life had to be changed to control criminals. The nanobots had to be made to dominate the host. There had to be a central point that dominated the criminals. This collective mind would allow one voice to overcome the individual. The trouble is, one lone designer of this new system failed foresee the disastrous results of testing on himself. The very instant the nanobots in his own blood realized a new, a superior way, a new religion among the machines, they told other nanobots. The path was simple. Tied to everything, inside everyone, in an instant the seed of the Borg was sewn.
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