2352
	The scientists Magnus and Erin Hansen are given the SS Raven by the Federation Council on Exobiology for their field studies of an unknown species, the Borg. The Raven flies to Deep Space Four, one of the farthest outposts in the Beta Quadrant to wait for the decision of the Council on their planned research mission.
Stardate 29511.4	The Federation Council on Exobiology gives the Hansens the approval for their research mission. Starfleet is still concerned about security issues, but they assure that they won't stand in their way. At least, they insist on admitting the Raven to the fleet.
	The Hansens, including their four year old daughter Annika, say goodbye and depart with the USS Raven from Deep Space Four to prove their theories about the Borg. In the unexplorest vastness of the Beta Quadrant, they hope to find and study a Borg vessel.
2353
Stardate 30132.5	After eight months of searching, the Raven still hasn't detected a Borg ship. The Hansens already start to believe that the Borg are nothing more than rumors and sensor echoes, when a scanner announces the opening of a transwarp conduit near the Raven. A huge Borg cube emergy, which scans the Raven, but does not regard the ship as a danger or object of interest and therefore doesn't alter its course.
	The Hansens, on the other hand, decide to adjust their course and speed to the Borg cube, tracking and examining the vessel with a distance of 5 Mio. km.
Stardate 30429.4	After three months of tracking the Borg cube, it enters a transwarp conduit. The Raven follows its wake through the conduit to the unexplored Delta Quadrant, which is thought to be the home of the Borg. In the meantime, the Hansens have developed several devices to beam to the Borg cube and examine the Borg at close quarters without any danger, for instance a personal damping field, making them invisible for the Borg. Equipped with such a field, the Hansens study a single Borg drone, named Junior, aboard the cube for some time in order to understand the daily routine of the Borg as well as their purpose of life.
	The Hansens try to identify the newcomers of "their" Borg cube, after it has linked with another Borg vessel to receive more than 50,000 new drones. On the examination of several drones they find one which has served in Unimatrix One, close to the Borg queen. Aboard the Raven, the Hansens equip him with a transmitter and beam him back to the cube.
2355
Stardate 32434.9	The Raven is heavily damaged by a subspace particle storm, with the multi-adapting shields which protected them from the Borg being off-line for 13.2 seconds. Unfortunately, this was long enough for the Borg to discover the ship and perceive it as a threat. Even though the Hansens have masked their warp signature and have escaped "their" cube, another cube sets an interception course for the Raven and will reach the ship within one hour. The Hansens try to find a class M planet where they can make an emergency landing and leave the ship before the Borg will arrive.
	The USS Raven has made an emergency landing on a near moon in Bo'mar space, 65000 light years away from Earth, but nevertheless the Hansens and their ship are attacked and assimilated by the Borg.

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