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Queen's Borg Sphere

    Submitted by stccgfaq.com on Thu, 06/15/2000 - 20:00

    Queen's Borg Sphere

    TASK: Contingency for Borg cube - Bombard Earth in the past; stop first contact. Borg Queen commands.

    Borg Borg icon  Ship Ship  - Borg sphere
    Staffing requirements: Borg Navigation Borg Navigation
    Further Icons: Delta Quadrant
    Ship Equipment: Standard Equipment
    Special skill(s): May be reported aboard, carried aboard and launched from any one of your Borg cubes.  Special Download Temporal Vortex.
    Point-Box on card: 15 bonus points (your opponent can score points, when you use this card).
    RANGE: 5  WEAPONS: 6  SHIELDS: 6

    Characteristics: Affiliation Borg affiliation, bonus points, Borg ship, Borg spheres.
    Requires: Affiliation Borg affiliation, Borg cube.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    		Queen's Borg Sphere
    The following cards can be used as "matching commander" for Queen's Borg Sphere:
    - Borg Queenimage (13 R+ 50) from The Borg The Borg
    - Borg Queenimage (4 R 75) from First Contact First Contact
    - Borg Queenimage (19 V 32) from Shades of Gray Shades of Gray

    This Card-Review article was written by Kathy McCracken and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Jun 15th, 2000.

    The Queen's Borg Sphere, like its universal sisters, is the Borg equivalent of a shuttlecraft, without requiring Engage Shuttle Operationsimage to carry and launch it from a cube. What sets it apart from the universal spheres is 1 extra RANGE (still only a shaky 5), a 15-point bounty instead of 10 (making it a more attractive target for your enemy) and two potential downloads. One is printed on the Ship card: a special download for Temporal Vorteximage, which can come in handy either for attempting to stop first contact or for temporarily neutralizing a Borg Shipimage or Sheliak dilemma. The other is implied in the lore: the Borg Queenimage is the matching commander of this ship, and can be downloaded to it with Ready Room Doorimage.

    A carried Queen's Borg Sphere can provide a safe haven for the Queen or a counterpart, still interlinked to the hive mind but invulnerable to random selections while your drones on the cube scout missions.

    Combos:

    • Queen's Borg Sphere + Sphere Encounterimage: The additional 4 RANGE lets this sphere easily pass all missions, even the span 6 Founder's homeworld.
    • Queen's Borg Sphere + Borg Shipimage + Temporal Vorteximage + Retaskimage: Trip your own Borg Ship dilemma, save the sphere by suspending play to download Temporal Vortex, then Retask it when it reappears to provide a mothership to carry the sphere.