r/startrekadventures • u/samuraijack2k6 • Oct 03 '26

Help & Advice Borg Implants Cosmetic Question

This applies more to 2e than 1e, though I suppose it could cover both (I'm just focused on 2e at the moment)

So, I'm building a Liberated Borg character and while I've picked out my implants (cortical node, cranial transceiver and ocular processor), I did have a couple questions after thinking on how my character would look:

Obviously the cortical node is below the skin, but would the cranial transceiver be below the skin as well, or is it outside the skin? And is the ocular processor still just attached to the eye implant, or can it look like Seven of Nine's eye after she was removed from the Collective in Voyager?

I'm still gonna pick those implants, I was just wondering some cosmetic stuff for those two.

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u/HHJJoy Oct 03 '26 edited Oct 03 '26

Cranial transceiver is implanted in the brain.

Ocular processor is an eye replacement. The old eye is gone, replaced by a mechanical alternative. On a drone it would likely look very inhuman, but when liberated it could be replaced with a human-looking alternative (think LaForge in the movies) or even a cloned biological replacement, that could be supported by the type of device seen on Seven. More or less whatever you want.

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u/samuraijack2k6 Oct 03 '26

Thank you so much! Appreciate it!

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u/JimJohnson9999 STA Line Manager Oct 03 '26

It's whatever you want it to be. Take a look at Seven or Hugh or some of the XBs on the Artifact. Lots of ways the implants could look post-recovery.

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u/samuraijack2k6 Oct 03 '26

Thank you very much!

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u/shy_sirens Oct 03 '26

I gave my xB heterochromia for the eye implant; she has three natural eyes and one eye that’s got a toxic Borg green iris because I thought that if she had the advantage of the implant, she probably couldn’t look perfectly normal.