Assimilation – personnel

assimilation – personnel –
When your Borg assimilate an opposing personnel, it becomes a Borg drone under your control (however, your opponent must still obey the persona rule (and may not report another instance of a non-universal persona) and it undergoes the following transformations:
*Its affiliation changes to Borg Affiliation.
*Its gender becomes irrelevant to the Borg.
*Its classification (if any) becomes its first listed regular skill.
*It retains any existing subcommand icons.
*If it was non-Borg-affiliation, its staffing ability changes to a subcommand icon, as follows:
Old Staffing	New Icon
 	
 	
Other 	
A drone will never have more than one copy of each subcommand icon. For example, if Seven of Nine is assimilated as a drone, her Staff icon is lost rather than converted.
*Its attributes adapt to service the collective based on its subcommand icons, as follows:
Iconsets…	Attributeto..	Value
 	INTEGRITY 	7
 	CUNNING 	7
 	STRENGTH 	7
Any attribute not set by a subcommand icon is set to 5.Borg do not assimilate (or target for assimilation) ANIMALs or holographic recreations. Such personnel are excluded from any selections for abduction or assimilation. All other personnel, including androids, changelings, and your opponent’s Borg, may be assimilated normally unless otherwise specified by a card. For example, if your opponent has The Kazon Collective in play, his Kazon are immune to assimilation. In addition to drone assimilation, you may assimilate a male personnel as a counterpart by completing the Assimilate Counterpart objective. When this occurs, the counterpart undergoes the same transformations as a drone, with the following exceptions:
*He retains his gender for Borg-related cards only. For example, a counterpart is not affected by Male’s Love Interest.
*His staffing ability adapts to service the Collective by changing to all three of the subcommand icons: Communication, Navigation, and Defense
*His INTEGRITY and CUNNING remain the same, and his STRENGTH is +3 (if he was already a counterpart, all attributes remain the same).
*His previous affiliation remains relevant for all cards requiring a matching counterpart, such as Assimilate Homeworld or Service the Collective. If he is multi-affiliation, all of his affiliation icons may be used for this purpose.
Your Collective is limited to one counterpart (or personnel targeted as such) at a time. While any personnel is targeted to become a counterpart, that personnel may not be assimilated as a drone and is excluded from all such selections. Dual-personnel cards may not be targeted for assimilation as a counterpart.A counterpart may be converted to a drone with He Will Make an Excellent Drone.
Any cards already played or placed on the personnel before assimilation remain in play (you do not recheck the conditions or targets for playing that card).
Note: The Borg overlays from the Enhanced First Contact release do not allow assimilation of cards and cannot be placed on non-Borg cards to allow them to be stocked in your deck. They may be sleeved with Personnel cards you assimilated as a memory aid for the transformations.