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Unimatrix Zero

Unimatrix Zero was a virtual construct and resistance movement created by a group of Borg drones.

This construct was created by Borg who had a recessive genetic mutation which gave them the capability to create this virtual world and to live in it, free from the hive mind as individuals, while regenerating in their alcoves. Individual Borg were connected to Unimatrix Zero via their interlink frequency, based on a tri-axillating modulation. This modulation made sure that not even the Borg Queen could disrupt their link.

How Unimatrix Zero came into existence was unsure. Some believed it started with a random malfunction during the assimilation of a single drone which eventually spread to other drones. The genetic mutation was rare and only one in a million drones possessed it, whether or not they were adults or children, still in a maturation chamber.

Although this mutation made it possible for a drone to live in Unimatrix Zero, they only were aware of it as long they were in it. When a drones regenerative cycle ended he or she could not remember the experiences gained while serving the Borg Collective. Entering Unimatrix Zero was only possible when a drone entered its regenerative cycle. For non-Borg entering was only possible via a mind meld with a drone in its regenerative cycle. The number of Borg drones who made up Unimatrix Zero were estimated to about ten thousand and more.

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A meeting place in Unimatrix Zero

In Unimatrix Zero a drone could chose whether or not he or she would appear in its original form and most of them did so, how they appeared was important to them. A drone was aware when its regenerative cycle would end, giving it the opportunity to say goodbye to others before serving the Collective again. Once inside the Unimatrix a drone could call another drone who was in its regenerative cycle. Only drones who possessed the genetic mutation could be called and enter Unimatrix Zero. The main goal while within the Unimatrix for a drone was to regain some part of their lives before they were assimilated by the Borg.

Death didn't exists within Unimatrix Zero. Although they could be killed, a drone would enter the Unimatrix again during its next regenerative cycle.

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Unimatrix Zero's environment

For many years Unimatrix Zero was undetected by the Borg Collective until 2376. In this year the Borg Queen found their interlink frequency. Although the Collective could detect the drones with the genetic mutation, which they saw as an illness, their method was slow and would take centuries to find every drone with the mutation. By examining the cortical array of drones with the genetic mutation the Queen found their interlink carrier band.

In the same year Axum, one of the drones with the mutation, called Seven of Nine back into Unimatrix Zero to help them fight the Borg. A nanovirus was devised by them which would mask the biochemical signature of the genetic mutation, making it impossible for the Borg to detect them. But they could not introduce the virus into the Collective without Seven's help.

Seven of Nine, being a member of Unimatrix Zero for almost eighteen years, asked Captain Kathryn Janeway for help. It was Janeway who suggested to Axum to begin a resistance movement to undermine the Borgs control over them once their mutation could no longer be detected. At the same time the Borg Queen had found a way to use their interlink to send Borg drones to Unimatrix Zero and to attack its occupants.

After Janeway agreed to help, the nanovirus Axum designed was modified by the The Doctor so it would also nullify the cortical inhibitor, so drones with the mutation would keep their memories about Unimatrix Zero while being part of the Collective.

Inside Unimatrix Zero, drones send by the Borg Queen were being fought.

Although Janeway was warned, even tempted by the Borg to send them back to Earth, by the Borg Queen she pushed through with her plan and succeeded in infiltrating the central plexus of a Borg cube and managed to release the nanovirus.

After the nanovirus was released the Borg Queen began to lose contact with drones who had the genetic mutation. In an attempted to force Captain Janeway, now a Borg and interrogated by her, to give her an antidote for the nanovirus. The Queen destroyed entire Borg vessels on which she only could no longer hear two or three of the drones, but Janeway refused.

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The destruction of Unimatrix Zero

The Borg managed to reprogram the nanovirus to shutdown the autonomic functions of the drones with the genetic mutation, making them die within minutes. The Queen herself would release it herself from within Unimatrix Zero. When Janeway was told by the Queen she had to make a decision, make the drones return to the Collective or they would be killed, she conferred with her First Officer Commander Chakotay via Voyager's holographic system and told him Unimatrix Zero could no longer exist. Unknown to the Queen it was not an order to return the drones.

To save the drones with the genetic mutation it was necessary to destroy Unimatrix Zero. This was done by Voyager and a Borg sphere under the command of the Klingon Korok, an occupant of Unimatrix Zero. Both ships had reconfigured their deflector emitters to disrupt the interlink frequency and so destroyed Unimatrix Zero.

This resulted in multiple Borg vessels under the control of former drones who would make up the resistance movement Unimatrix Zero. It is unknown if any of those drones did succeed, although Korok promised to stay in contact with USS Voyager. (VOY: "Unimatrix Zero, Part I","Unimatrix Zero, Part II")

Inhabitants of Unimatrix Zero

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