Species 116

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Located in the Delta Quadrant.
Arturis, a member of Species 116.
Species 116 script.
Note: This is NOT a PC and NPC rated species.

Species 116 was the Borg designation for a Delta Quadrant species whose original name is unknown.

This species had a natural ability to almost instantly learn any language. Its members became fluent in a language after hearing only a few phrases. They could also quickly decipher cryptographic patterns. Their level of technology was very advanced; they employed a sophisticated form of faster than light propulsion unknown to Star Fleet called quantum slipstream drive. They also had particle synthesis technology, an extremely advanced form of holographic replication technology.

However, their abilities and technological prowess made the species an extremely attractive target for the Borg to assimilate. For centuries the Borg attempted to do so and failed, the species always managing to stay one step ahead of them. But eventually, the Borg began gaining ground, until they were on the brink of succeeding. The species' last hope rested on the expected destruction of the Borg by Species 8472. But due to intervention by the Federation Starship USS Voyager in 2374, the Borg defeated Species 8472. The Borg then returned their attention to Species 116 and succeeded in assimilating it. Only ten or twenty thousand were able to escape.

The USS Voyager encountered a surviving member of the species named Arturis, in 2374. He tried to lure Voyager into Borg space for her and her crew to be assimilated in revenge, but his plan backfired and he was presumed to have been assimilated instead.

This information taken from http://www.memory-alpha.org/