Black Eye Borg Collective

## General Overview

The origin of the Black Eye Borg Collective can be traced back to the creation of the New Romulan Empire within the Black Eye Galaxy. Romulan scientists based on the world of Leahval in the Tau Quadrant brought with them several specimens of Borg nanoprobes to the Black Eye Galaxy during the year of 2419, using the Iconian Gateway discovered in the Leahval System to conduct raids on "The Vault" facility in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Due to the continual hostility with the Commonwealth, Empress Sela, began to offer these nanoprobes as "improvements" to other races in the Black Eye Galaxy in the hope of securing allies against the Commonwealth.

One of these races offered this technology included the Sobekka Hegemony, a technologically inferior expansionist power that wished to acquire the advanced technology in order to finally defeat the more powerful Black Eye Consortium.

However, shortly after that, the New Romulan Empire was formally disbanded after a devastating loss to the Commonwealth and Empress Sela was captured by the Romulan Republic and sent back to the Milky Way Galaxy to face judgment for her crimes.

During this time, the Sobekka lacked the Romulan experience with Borg nanotechnology and it was not long before the nanites assimilated the capital planet of the Sobekkan Empire, with the remaining Sobekkans believing this to be a biological outbreak of some kind.

With the remaining Sobekka fleeing their planet to other worlds, the now assimilated Sobekka Prime was left alone to complete the assimilation of the planet.

In 2419, the U.S.S. Callisto was successful at preventing a now assimilated Sobekkan ship from using the Iris in order to establish contact with the Borg in the Milky Way Galaxy.

It was not until the following year that the Black Eye Borg Collective was revealed to the Commonwealth, in May 2420 when the U.S.S. Hiryu, while on a routine patrol responded to a distress call from a Xen'trist ship.

Despite the best efforts of the crew, the Hiryu was completely overwhelmed by the Borg vessel and was assimilated into the Collective, prompting an encounter with the U.S.S. Nightshade, who were responding to reports of the missing Hiryu being sighted near Xen'trist space.

The Black Eye Borg Collective appear to be somewhat different from their Milky Way Counterparts, preferring to not build geometrically shaped ships (possibly because of a degree of fragmentation in the Collective memory due to Romulan experimentation).

Instead, the Black Eye Borg will utilize whatever resources they have available, which has led to more simplified ship design, assimilating vessels and enhancing them with their technology. The Black Eye Borg also seem to favor sheer force Mass Driver technology rather then the traditional tractor beam and cutting beam in order to kinetically "blast" off opponents engine components, making them helpless to assimilation.

Physiologically, the Black Eye Borg compose mostly of the Sobekkan race, meaning that they possess the enhanced reptilian strength common to that species, similar to the Assimilated Gorn witnessed by Starfleet in 2409.

Their technology is based on Romulan experimented Borg nanites which allows their ships to continually change their configuration, adapting to a variety of different roles as well as changing the internal layout of their vessels.

In 2420, the U.S.S. Generation encountered a Black Eye Borg Vessel attempting to assimilate a dying Old One. The drones aboard the vessel had all been driven mad by the Old One's insanity field and the Generation was successful in destroying the vessel.

In March 2421, The U.S.S. Callisto and U.S.S. Wynter Life discover a cure for the Foxune Eternium Plague by securing a Borg Trigon Class in Black Eye Borg space. Commander Gattis (G69/3B) violates orders to release reprogrammed New Romulan Star Empire nanites in the collective, shutting down the implants in all drones and freeing the Sobekka from the Borg influence.