Harvesters

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Harvesters are groups of borg outside of the normal collective who live on the fringes of controlled space and have become brutal and savage. Their existence is officially denied by most known governments still in existence,Harvesters are A horrible part of daily life around the outer sectors of the alpha and beta quadrants.

Harvesters are savage, brutal and primal. Their contact with other species is limited to combat, torture, murder and harvesting of biological and technological parts to sustain themselves.As of yet no harvester has been known to speak.Yet when they are encountered they never speak with each other, suggesting that they have retained some form of the borg hive mind.

Harvesters are known to raid ships and colonies to kill and cannibalize anyone or anything they find. They are known for their delight in causing pain and suffering in sentient beings.Their methods are so horrifying that when faced with capture by them most victims attempt suicide, and mercy killings of those who fall into the hands of harvesters are considered humane. The harvesters do occasionally intentionally leave survivors of their raids in some perverse way of spreading the myth about themselves.

Most harvester ships may have at one time started out as borg cubes or spheres.As time passed and the ability to assimilate with nanoprobes was lost the borg adapted and began to physically connect captured starships and shuttles to there own vessels when something was needed.They typical harvester ship is a jumbled mass of hull pieces interconnected systems and as some say madness.They are usually heavily armed and not very well shielded.Each one has some system for latching on to another ship.Either by tractor beams swallowing them whole with a massive bay.......or harpoons or spears attached to tritanium cable.

Harvesters are creatures of opportunity.Like many predators they follow potential prey for a short while to observe and see and visual weakness.Once they attack they will not stop until driven away destroyed or in rare cases they lose interest.

Assimilation by harvesters is a rare event.Most captives are used for spare biological components or in the event of a base need.......they are used for food.Once captured the typical captive is dissected crudely and fought over by any harvester near that needs what they might have.In the rare event of assimilation a captive is held and brought aboard the harvester ship for the start of a seemingly endless batch of surgery.Each one is designed to strip away another little part of whatever self image of conciseness the captive may have had.It usually starts with the insertion of several mood altering probes in the captives forward cortex and ends with some sort of modification to enhances the captives physical ability.The Surgery is crude and poorly done and most captives never survive,perhaps a fortunate circumstance.

"These harvesters seemed to be even more savage and brutal than the stories made them out to be."

"Perhaps they learned a lesson from us on how to win next time, by doing whatever it takes."