Chapter 4: The Outcome
The Death Star moved slowly through space, escorted by the regenerated Borg cube. On board the Death Star, almost every section had been assimilated and augmented with Borg technology. Among many of the walls stood alcoves, most of which had new Borg drones inside them, while other drones walked through the halls of the massive station, occupied with numerous tasks and objectives. Some of these drones had white armor, from their former existence, but this armor was of no interest to the Borg, and therefore was not removed during the assimilation process. The cube had also transferred additional drones to the Death Star, bringing its numbers up to normal, and other life forms found in cells on the Death Star had also been assimilated. Borg force fields had been constructed in several sections, just as they were in Borg cubes. In a former docking bay, a small number of drones were disassembling and scanning deactivated Cylon centurions, attempting to discover if any of that technology would benefit the Borg. The TIE fighters that formally occupied the docking bays had been ejected, although a few were kept to study, in an attempt to create Borg versions of fighters, using the newly assimilated Cylon technology as a template. The former control room of the Death Star was no longer necessary, since the Borg now controlled all functions via the collective interface, so the room now contained more alcoves and some research tables and terminals. On these terminals, information obtained about the three unassimilated races the Borg had recently encountered was being studied. In another section of the Death Star, which was a power room to the megalaser, Borg drone 6 of 12, formally the one this species had called Emperor, began running tests on this weapon. It would become very useful to the Borg against those races that had offered sufficient resistance in the past, such as humanity or Species 8472. Some drones were out on the hull of the Death Star, attaching various Borg components to systems such as the defensive weapons, increasing their efficiency. Later, when the Death Star would be completely assimilated, The Borg would incorporate its useful technology, such as the megalaser, into future Borg vessels. At this moment, however, the Borg had new and immediate tasks to complete. They accessed information extracted from the assimilated Mr. Morden before he had been destroyed, and began preparing a new primary directive. When this was done, both the Cube and the Death Star had set course for a target planet identified as Z'Ha'Dum.