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According to generally accepted history, the first contact between Earth and the Borg Collective occurred around the time of First Contact, April 4th, 2063. At that time, Borg from the twenty-fourth century traveled back in time to stop the first warp drive test of Zefram Cochrane and assimilate the Earth, and thereby preventing the formation of the United Federation of Planets. The USS Enterprise-E, under the command of then Captain Jean-Luc Picard, pursued the Borg to the twenty-first century, and thwarted their plans.

That's what the history books say, anyway.

From "The Song Of Trillions," by Sakura Rachel Stern-Robinson
copyright 3063, UFP Publications

Earth, 2006

The ship dropped out of warp fifteen degrees above the ecliptic of the yellow star's planetary system. The star had four gaseous planets, a sizable asteroid belt, and four inner planets of more solid matter. Additionally, there was a small body in an odd orbit around the star, the farthest in the system. Sensor scans indicated no life and nothing of immediate interest to justify altering course to rendezvous with it. They would save exploring that one for the outbound journey.

The sixth and fifth gas planets from the star held particular interest to the occupants of the ship. They were huge, and their atmospheric composition alone made the trip here worth it. These two planets would provide enough raw materials for five years, maybe six! And the massive ring system around the sixth gas planet made the system easily recognizable. The asteroid belt between the fifth and fourth planets was another treasure trove of raw materials, once again enough for five or six years of growth.

As the ship continued on into the inner system, an unusually heated debate erupted among the crew. Some said the ship should leave and call for the Harvesters now, while others insisted on continuing further in to see what was there. The argument continued for some time until the Arbiter finally settled the matter: they would continue on and investigate the phenomena that drew them to this system in the first place, the artificial energy patterns emanating from the third planet from the star.

They noted in passing that the fourth planet also had resources useful to them, and what looked like indications of technology, some of it relatively recent and active, some of it ancient and quiescent. This exploration was looking better and better to the crew. The Arbiter was definitely pleased. And that pleasure jumped to near ecstasy when the approached the third planet.

There was biological life on that planet. There was technology on that planet. That world was fairly well screaming to the universe that both were present there. The ship settled into a high orbit around the world and began detailed scans.

There were over 6 billion intelligent lifeforms on the world. The crew could easily identify them because they were so closely associated with the technology they were searching for. Of course, the natives weren't as intimately associated with their technology as the ship's crew were, but that could easily be remedied when the Harvesters came. The technology was, for the most part, unspectacular. The natives of this world were well behind the ship's crew, technologically, but that was of little consequence. The technology could be easily adapted for their use, or broken down to raw components and reutilized.

Then the scans turned up some of anomalies. In one of the population concentrations on the spinward coast of the smaller of the two major land masses, was technology that was comparable to their own. It was highly sophisticated and had extensive safeguards. It also looked like it had been in place for a while, and not recently used. There was a similar technology signature in a remote location on a small island spinward of the first, across a somewhat large body of liquid and just above the larger of the two major land masses.

Then the ship caught something else.

Just south of the island location was a technology that was totally unique. It didn't have the technology signature of the other two anomalies, it was definitely part of the technology of this world. But it gave off distinct quantum signatures, as if it were some kind of quantum field generator. Now this was the kind of technology they were looking for!

Suddenly, a huge bright light bloomed from the location, covering the entire planet, then spreading out from the planet to the ship and beyond. Their sensors warned of an oncoming chronometric particle wave, so the crew took defensive measures to ride the wave out. When the disturbance ended, the ship was in interstellar space twenty light years from the star system, and several time intervals in the past. The eight members of the crew evaluated the data received during the disturbance, then presented their results to the Arbiter, the ninth crew member and commander of the ship.

"We will return to the third planet," the Arbiter said, "we must secure the technology that generated the wave so the Harvesters may proceed unimpeded. We will add the biological and technological distinctiveness of that world to our own, so the Borg may achieve perfection. Set course to the sixth planet of that star system."

"Wow, that was a close one," Jeremie Belpois said to his friends. They were all standing around the console of the supercomputer as Jeremie evaluated the results of the latest XANA attack.

Jeremie used the supercomputer to tap into the school's security cameras and checked the area around the campus. He didn't see anything, or anyone out of place, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Well, it looks like we didn't lose anybody," the blond haired genius said, "I specifically checked the track and Jim was out there teaching class."

"I'll have to admit, I thought he didn't pull through that one," remarked a dark haired Japanese girl, Yumi Ishiyama, "I was dead certain he and Mrs. Hertz were in the middle of that one explosion.'

"Oh, yeah, I forgot about Mrs. Hertz!" Jeremie said. He quickly pulled up another program, a telephone program, and dialed a phone number.

"Hello? Suzanne Hertz speaking," came Mrs. Hertz's voice. The gang was relieved.

"Hello? Is this some kind of prank?" came her voice after a moment, angry now. Jeremie was half tempted to play a phone prank, just to give them cover, as well as jerk her chain a little, but decided against it. He terminated the connection.

"Well, we'd better get back to school," Jeremie said, "everybody take a casual look around when we get back, just to make sure we're not missing somebody. And, yes Ulrich, that means Sissi, Hervé and Nicholas too."

Jeremie then got out of the chair, slipped his arm around the waist of the pink haired girl that had been standing next to him and pulled her close, and the couple headed towards the elevator. The brunette boy Jeremie directed his last statement at just lowered his head and muttered something. Yumi gave him a reassuring pat and a "poor baby."

As the gang left, the other blond in the group, Odd Della Robbia, said, "well, another day, another time the world got saved. You know, even though XANA escaped, it's still pretty easy to beat him. I'm almost bored; I wish he'd give us more of a challenge next time."

That night, a small cube, about the size of a house, descended from the sky and landed on the roof of the old factory near Kadic Academy in Paris, France. The cube rested there a moment, then vanished. Soon after that, eight figures appeared and made their way inside, searching for the technology they had scanned from orbit. No one noticed their coming, no human, that was.

From an orbiting satellite, XANA had observed the cube's arrival and landing on the factory's roof. After its latest attack failed, XANA retreated to the satellite to devise a new strategy. When it saw the ship arrive, then land on the roof, it knew it had the perfect opportunity. XANA launched itself down to the supercomputer, to investigate this new finding.

When it got to the factory, it slipped back into the supercoputer, then messed up the SuperScan Jeremie used to watch for activated towers. After that, XANA activated a tower and sent a probe to the roof.

When it got there, it saw eight figures had emerged from the invisible cube. They were not human, but they were humanoid in appearance, and what was even better, they were infused with computer technology! XANA quickly entered one of the figures and began its takeover.

Arbiter, what should we do? one of the drones asked the commander as XANA invaded. The moment the drones set foot of the roof of the building, some kind of program infiltrated a low security communications link, and began trying to subvert their systems. They were quickly adapting to the attack, and were about ready to destroy the interloper. The drone was querying to see if they could proceed.

This program is somewhat interesting, the Arbiter replied, not in its own right, but what it controls. The technology we seek is a computing device below this building, and this program seems to be a primary interface to it. It seems to have a rudimentary intelligence algorithm, but that is of no ultimate consequence. For now, we shall lead the program to believe it has taken control. We will let it run, and monitor it to see when and how it interfaces with the computer we seek. Once we have enough information to easily take control, we shall assimilate the program.

When XANA entered its victim, it found not one, but nine minds inside. The beings were linked together and to the ship by their technology. And as soon as XANA invaded, they began a massive counterattack.

XANA was at a disadvantage; it had to figure out the base machine code of the technology that the creatures used as well as the intersystem communication protocols, somehow figure out the thought processes of the creatures themselves, all while trying to keep them from overwhelming and deleting it. It seemed like an eternity, but XANA finally succeeded.

As it settled in, it marveled at what it had acquired. This technology was capable of resisting somewhat the effects of the time shifting capabilities of the supercomputer! XANA could utilize these creatures to destroy the supercomputer, and if an attempt failed, it could use them all over again, and compensate for whatever mistakes it made in previous attacks. And even better, there were others like these creatures roaming around the galaxy, looking for worlds like Earth. They were a vast network of interlinked creatures, most with even greater capabilities than the small group it had captured.

XANA paused. Until now, it had been trying to destroy mankind. Now, it had the capability to dominate, to control not only mankind, but trillions of creatures. It didn't even pause a microsecond to consider; XANA moved from world destroyer to world conqueror. It would impose its own logic on creation, it would bring order to the chaos that was Earth.

It would raise the world, then the galaxy itself, to ultimate perfection.