Borg Ship

Rare card from Premiere (1994) / Super Rare Foil card from Reflections (2000)

Gigantic cubic ship of the Borg collective. Possess powerful weapons and remarkable regenerative abilities.

Space Dilemma; Points: 45

Self-controlling ship (WEAPONS=24, SHIELDS=24). Start here. Attacks everything. End of every turn, moves 1 toward and off spaceline's long end. Destroy for bonus.

Rule notes

Major Rakal's Dilemma Facts

Play on spaceline and note farthest end (left or right). Borg Ship immediately initiates ship battle against all targets (ships and facilities) at the location where encountered. Attacks each target with full 24 WEAPONS. Multiple ships and facilities of one player may return fire together. All targets are "stopped" by the attack (if not destroyed). At end of every turn of both players, Borg Ship moves one card toward farthest end of spaceline. Immediately attacks all targets at new location. Also attacks targets that move to or appear at its location during any turn. If destroyed in battle before moving off spaceline, place dilemma in destroyer's bonus point area. Discard dilemma when it moves off end of spaceline (or if destroyed other than in battle).

Official Runlings:

This dilemma attacks only when it is first encountered; when it moves to a new location at the end of every turn; and when a target arrives or appears at its location. (It does not attack when reappearing from a Temporal Vortex.) A "target" is any ship or facility that may normally be targeted in a ship battle. When encountered and when it moves to a new location, it attacks all targets at that location. When a target arrives at (and stops at) or appears at its location, it attacks only that target. (A moving ship may fly past the dilemma without being attacked.) A target may "appear" by decloaking, dephasing, reappearing from a Temporal Rift, time travel, or reporting.

If you have "unstopped" ships at the location of a Borg Ship dilemma during your turn, they may attack the dilemma. It will return fire against all ships (and facilities) that attacked it (but not other targets that were not involved in the attack).

The battle is conducted according to normal ship battle rules, with the exception that the Borg Ship dilemma fires on multiple targets (see battle - ship - multiple targets). Hits, direct hits, and damage to the dilemma are calculated and applied as if it were a ship. Its bonus points are earned when a non-Borg player destroys the dilemma in battle (and only in battle).

Battle Bridge side decks affect this dilemma as follows:

• When battling the Borg Ship dilemma, you may use a current tactic and may place damage markers on the dilemma if appropriate.
• The dilemma does not use either player's Tactic cards; thus, your ships and facilities it hits suffer default damage (two damage markers for a hit, four for a direct hit) if your opponent is using a Battle Bridge side deck, or card rotation damage if your opponent is not.
• When the dilemma is attacking both players' cards, it does so as two separate battles. The player whose turn it is chooses which happens first.
• If both players have damaged the Borg Ship dilemma but only one of them has a Battle Bridge side deck, some of the dilemma's damage will be indicated by damage markers and some of it will be indicated by card rotation. The card rotation damage is equivalent to HULL -50% and combines with the damage markers to determine whether the Borg Ship dilemma is destroyed.

The Borg Ship dilemma attacks Borg-affiliation cards normally. It is not a ship and is not affected by cards that affect ships (such as Calamarain, Q-Net, Wormholes, etc.) or by Plasma Fire, Warp Core Breach, Isabella, Into The Breach, or the first function of Anti-Matter Spread. See Hugh.

Taken from: Rulebook Glossary (08/2002)