2432: The Borg invade the Alpha Quadrant and begin to assimilate the worlds of the various powers there in a steadily increasing tide. The strategy of assimilate, create a base and advance is a new tactic and very successful.

The Consensus, fighting the Borg all the way back to their homeworld makes a difficult choice to preserve themselves by fleeing into an alternate past, choosing a timeline in which the Borg held the least ascendancy.

Having received much of what Hugh *was*, Jez found himself and taken up the mantle of caretaker amongst his people, guiding them down the road that Hugh foresaw for them. Abaddon, in turn, acting as his personal assistant and his primary trustee. Abaddon did much to help organize the industries and tactical measures the Consensus required to survive. He became intimately familiar with the technologies of the Consensus.

Until the coming of the Borg, the Consensus had lived in a carefully maintained peace and seclusion. Some of their Membership, Abaddon included, worked with Starfleet in secret as they supported their ideals.

But in 2432, the Borg began to invade the Alpha and Beta quadrants, systematically taking worlds and sectors and turning them into support bases for further conquest. The attack was unilateral, on sixteen fronts, attacking the Cardassian, Klingon, Romulan, Breen and Federation territories simultaneously. This staggering attack left the allies unable to aid one another as a massive wave of irresistible Borg overwhelmed their defenses.

The Consensus stood beside the Federation and her allies, fighting the Borg with some success and destroying themselves where they fell. But against the onslaught they could do little than slow the advance so others could flee. But eventually, the Borg came to Shivatta and the Consensus faced death at the hands of the species that was responsible for their original creation, coming full circle.

So they chose to change the rules and turned the circle. Using their uniquely developed synchronous phase-shift technology, the Consensus changed their resonance to that of the space and time of their homeworld in 2362. They arrived, their cores severely depleted, to begin the revitalization of their people and rebuilding of their society, ever-alert for the movements of the Borg and the developments that led to their own losses. Collectively they made the decision to secrete themselves beneath the surface of their planet, phase-shifting all of their installations to be undetectable to the sensors of the time and waited for Lore and Hugh to come and their situation to be resolved.

Eventually that day came, right on time.

It took very little time for the fledgling Consensus led by Hugh to be appraised of what had occurred in their future and to advance their industry and evolution to the level their future progeny had achieved.

Within scant years, the Membership had grown and been altered, the the "old style" Borg had been altered, regaining much of their original racial diversity and their prior identities. Components were removed where able and replaced with engineered synthetic biologicals, bringing a more homogenous appearance to the Consensus as a species.

During the process, years before an "official presentation" planned for the Federation, Starfleet Intelligence detected them and arrived on the scene, bringing a small fleet just in case. An accord of sorts was reached, bringing several of the Members into covert service to Starfleet to prove their intentions. Abaddon was the first of his kind to do so, serving for seven years, out of the public eye of regular Starfleet.

Then, in the local-time 2380, the Consensus unanimously decided to extend overtures to the Federation Alliance formally, bringing their unique technological, cultural and social distinctiveness to other species that all may benefit. The Federation Council took some time to be convinced the Membership were not some new type of Borg before tentatively extending provisional alliance status to the rather small population. Ambassadors are exchanged and a tentative officer exchange program is established.

In 2380, Abaddon volunteered to be the first member of his species to be an exchange officer, though he was given a rank based on his prior service and commissions.

Eyes: Amber slit-pupil
Hair: Long black and straight, kept in a queue at the back of his neck
Marital Status: Widowed
Known Relatives/Next of kin: Gabriel: Deceased; no offspring

Species/physical description
Abaddon is a Member of the Consensus, which are the descendants of the Borg, left by the Enterprise in the late 60's to develop into their own culture. However, the Borg that were left behind did a great deal to ensure that their descendants would be unique and never have to be concerned with their loss of identity.

Abaddon appears to have the secondary physiological characteristics of several species. His high forehead down to the bridge of his nose is faintly ridged like a Klingon hybrid, his ears are pointed slightly like a Vulcan yet his face possesses the softer edges and angles most humans display. In actuality, the common-enough species to be melded into their new common-genome were Klingon, Human, Vulcan, Bajoran, Hirogen and El Aurian. Since many of those species are somewhat homogenous on the outside, there is little outward appearance to show the multiple heritage. Only a deep gene-scan will show the genetic tags of the species involved.

And his only outward sign of some sort of internalized technology is common to all of the Consensus, a small oval red crystal a half-centimeter in diameter at its widest surrounded by a minute and complex ring of some sort of metallic setting. Deep scans will show artificial organic nano-fibers running throughout his brain, along the nerves to his limbs and senses and some sort of nano-cortical system filling in the wrinkles in his brain.

However, the Borg did bequeath a measure of their resilience and protection to their progeny in the form of their body armor. These suits of armor cover the wearer completely from just under the chin to the backs of the hands and covers the feet completely. The fingers can be covered at will as can the head and face, for protection against danger or the environment. It is in this armor that most of the "Borg" components and support technology is housed. And while the armor could be considered symbiotic in nature, the Member can thrive without it.

Abaddon is very tall with a wiry musculature and a somewhat hairy body. There are no ports, nodes or anything on his body that can outwardly betray his nature, other than the sensor crystal in his forehead (unless of course, he is wearing his armor). Members of the Consensus prefer to wear their armor because it greatly enhances their defense against the possibility of Borg assimilation and ultimately, their own destruction.

As a Member of the Consensus, Abaddon has certain features common to his species. Biologically, he bears many features common to other distinct species and yet have been molded into a distinct species all their own.

The Membership have an internal structure similar to the Brak'ul of the Klingons and have a few redundant organs and a decentralized heart, having instead a series of pumping muscles that operate in series and have several seconds of rest between pulses.
In addition, the ridging on the forehead is the same as the Klingon ridging, actually reinforcing and armoring the connection point of the spinal column to the brain, which connecting in the front, dorsal cranial area.

And finally, the sensory acuity common to a Klingon's sense of smell have also been incorporated.

From Vulcan/Romulan heritage, tolerance of high temperatures and exception hearing have been incorporated, as well as the cerebral structure to maximize intellectual capacity and multitasking capability.

From the Orion genetic donor, a tolerance to radiation that even actually assists in the healing process. From the Orion, the ability to see into the ultraviolet range was gleaned, giving the ability to see in darkness and low light conditions. Added to the swarthy complexion of the Klin and the olive complexion of the Vulcanoids and the Emerald of the Orion, the Members have a darker olive complexion and typically have black hair, if they any at all.

And despite their great technology and skills, the Borg predecessors were not the best genetic engineers.

Members have to cautious about sensory overload, as they are unable to screen out sudden intense input from their senses and loud sounds, overpowering odors and bright UV sources can result in the overload of that sense.

Also, with the Klingon genes, certain instincts came with the characteristics which the Members have difficulty controlling. They are vulnerable to pheromonal effects and can be influenced unless they realize what is happening and take steps to prevent an effect. But unless the chemophores reach toxic levels, they will very often not realize they're being affected.

Even without this, Members must exercise tremendous discipline as they have inherited the passions of the Orions and the Klingons, species both know for emotional excess.
As far as their implants are concerned, the typical Member has the ability to regenerate damage, fend of diseases and eliminate toxins in the body. In addition, micro-replicators in the body can produce nutrients and gasses needed by the body, when provided power by the armor. Nanites, similar to those found in the Borg, keep the body healthy and repair damage to implants and bodily systems but unlike the Borg, are unable to assimilate other beings. Members do not have assimilation tubules.

Finally, the Members have a tricorder-like sensor system interwoven with their neural fibers with a buffer, able to store giga-quads of compressed data just like a tricorder. All sensor information is fed directly into the sensory center of the brain where it can sensed directly by the Member. A small slipspace transmitter relay in t he brain relays data through the armor to be boosted to the Membership; in this way they are very much like the Borg.

Member Armor
The armor of a Member affords them several advantages, though most beings can duplicate with personal equipment or natural abilities.

The armor provides a high degree of physical protection and provides energy for several internal systems that only become active when worn and in gestalt.

The internal replicators found within a member's body can be used to synthesize nutrients and life support while wearing the armor, which feed power to the subsystem.
Likewise, the armor draws off of ambient sources of energy to power itself, in addition to having the ability to adapt energy from a variety of sources and store it with great efficiency.

The armor of a Member, while not able to generate shields, can replicate adaptive armor compounds, shunting away a great deal of energy from attacks and absorbing much of the remainder to power other systems. This is an adaptive defense and can adapt to attacks that can be analyzed.

One of their defensive systems is a high-powered dampening field which will suck the power from an attack or nearby device, rendering them powerless. Gravometric fields of various frequency and uses can also be generated, depending on available power.
A Member has the ability to transport themselves, a few times, based on internal energy reserves. Similar technology to the emergency transport devices the Federation uses, this incorporate personal device allows the Member instant transport when needed.
And finally, like the Borg, the armor of the Member magnifies their endurance and strength many times.