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    Submitted by Telak on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 15:26

    (5) Harvest Drone

    Borg Borg icon Personnel Personnel of Borg species.
    Icons: Staff Past
    Red Dot Engineer   Red Dot Exobiology   Red Dot Security  
    Drone. When you take command of a personnel that you do not own, you may randomly select an opponent's personnel present with this personnel, take command of him or her, and place this personnel on the bottom of your deck.
    INTEGRITY: 5   CUNNING: 5   STRENGTH: 5

    TASK: Identify additional targets near newly assimilated drones. Pursue.

    Characteristics: take command (of opponent cards), Borg affiliation, manipulate your deck, Past Past related, Drone, personnel who has a cost of 3 or more, personnel who has a cost of 4 or more, personnel who has a cost of 5 or more, Borg species.
    Requires: take command (of opponent cards).

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at Jan 1st, 2008.
     

    		Harvest Drone

    This Card-Review article was written by openCards user Hoss-Drone and was published first on "The Continuing Committee (trekcc.org)" at Apr 22nd, 2008.

    "We are the Borg. You are not safe anywhere. We have adapted to your evasive strategies. You cannot hide. You will be assimilated."

    When playing Second Edition, it’s been a rule of thumb: "If you want to protect your people against the Borg, just leave them on your headquarters and off your ship. Against everyone else, stay at your headquarters on your ship."

    With the release of The Undiscovered Country, that rule is about to get severely redacted.

    Enter the Harvest Drone. You know what, I think I’m just going to start calling him the "Hoss-Drone." Yeah, that’s the ticket. I’ve officially adopted this guy. I’ve adopted him because he says to your opponent: "Your people aren’t safe anywhere." As I’ve written, I love battling and assimilating. I just wish I could have used this guy at the World Championships last year.

    Sure he’s cost five, but in exchange you get to assimilate an opponent’s personnel. He’s non-unique so you can have three in play. He can even assimilate someone on your opponent's Headquarters! Heck, the battle could have been at another location entirely!

    Addressing the cost problem more closely, you can use the Borg Queen, Guardian of the Hive to swap him in on the cheap. Then, of course, there is Energize. As for getting him into your hand to play, that’s no problem. Quintessence and Two of Nine, Transtator Drone make that an easy task.

    A cost of five isn’t the problem it used to be and with such a Hossy peep, it’s completely worth it. You will assimilate your opponent - in his own home.