In the not too distant future the United Federation of Planets faces a threat to which resistance is futile. In this future of peace, politics and exploration many alien races exsist but only the Borg cannot be reasoned with. They have a single goal of assimilating everything and everyone in our galaxy worth assimilating.
The Borg are part cybernetic, having enhancements including an energy shield, an eye which can see beyond human capacity, an arm which has many tools built in and nano-enhanced strength and healing.
The Borg relentlessly pursue other races and infect them with nanobots which being assimilation immidiately. Assimilation can be rejected or reversed but is very unlikely. Everyone assimilated becomes a drone with the sole purpose of obeying the Hive Mind and creating more drones.
Because of the shielding and nanobots the drones are almost invincible and capture, death or assimilation is all but inevitable. A drone will infect a living subject by injecting him with nanobots through the use of it's tool arm. Borg have also been proven to be capible of reproducing on their own but this does not furture the goal of assimilation so is not common.
Cause: Nanobots
Undead: No
Body: Humanoid (augmented)
Freewill: No
Infectious: Yes
Fear: No
Now I know this is pretty short but I had to call it here. Borg are not zombies. They are take the invincible aspect zombies can sometimes feel they have and the inevitable death motive but they are not zombies. While they do infect victims, those victims are not killed but rather enhanced and turned into a living robot. And while they have no freewill, they are also not completely blood thirsty killing machines. The similarities are there, parallels can be drawn but the fundamentals are missing.
Stay resistant, may you never be assimilated, and those close to you have the resolve to do what is needed should you be so unfortunate, Mike D.
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