Oh yeah, I think I forgot to put this in past posts but after they get the aid of the Vidiians they'd get access to old Conclave starmaps, which combined with the Federation Starcharts they have they figure out that they're still in the Beta Quadrant, but 30,000 LY from the edge of the known BQ so the area they're in is now designated the "Deep-Beta Quadrant".
After the Krenim arc the Krenim join the Neo-Conclave and add their own sciences and stuff to the group. Working together the Vidiians, the VOY crew, the Talaxians and the Krenim are able to re-create an ancient FTL Engine the old Conclave had that was able to move much faster than any current Warp Drive or even the League's FTL (which is a sort of bastardized Quantum Slipstream Drive that's faster bu less precise than Federation Warp).
This new drive (which is the true Quantum Slipstream) is powered by resources found in the Periphery (where the old Conclave was) and the one prototype they build is installed on Voyager. With Denara Pel joining them they prepare to leave for Known Space to let Starfleet know about all that they've encountered.
However, before they can go a major complication arises.
A Talaxian merchant ship or mining ship just minding its own business (maybe Talaxians), the Captain has a pet that's a counterpart to a Dog, etc.
Then a large object would appear on their scanners, emerging from some kind of unknown rift near the ship, throwing it out of control.
VOY would pick up the automated distress beacon and send an away team to investigate.
Someone (Harry, maybe) would be looking around in one area and find evidence of a fight with energy weapons, but no signs of disintegrated bodies on the Vidiian scanner (they use those now instead of Tricorders) and then locates one member of the crew at the communications, except he's dead. He looks like he was mauled by some vicious animal.
He would then go deeper and see several other crew members who have all been killed in the same way, and several of them look like they were fighting something when they died. He doesn't realize there's something in the chamber with him, and it seems to have extra "bits" on it that are artificial.
He then finds one sole surviving Talaxian who locked himself in a locker to survive, but he's in severe shock. As he calls the medical team on his communicator, Harry hears a growl and turns around just in time to barely dodge a tackle by the Captain's pet, which has been turned into a vicious killer. It has robotic enhancements and shoots tubules out of its' mouth. It finally gets him pinned down, but before it can rip him up the Talaxian picks up Kim's phaser and kills the thing.
He then tells the rescue team that a humongous vessel appeared out of no where and knocked their ship out of control, and beamed 2 of their crew onto the mining ship. They transported several of the mining crew away, but the remaining crew fought back and killed one of them with their weapons, but somehow the second one was unaffected by them (adaptative shield) but the Pet attacked and killed the other one with its' teeth and claws. Yet before it died the alien injected the pet with something, mutating it into a bio-mechanical monster that slaughtered the rest of the crew except him, who hid until Voyager arrived.
He'd show them the corpse of the alien the pet killed before it mutated: It's a Borg.
After the Krenim arc the Krenim join the Neo-Conclave and add their own sciences and stuff to the group. Working together the Vidiians, the VOY crew, the Talaxians and the Krenim are able to re-create an ancient FTL Engine the old Conclave had that was able to move much faster than any current Warp Drive or even the League's FTL (which is a sort of bastardized Quantum Slipstream Drive that's faster bu less precise than Federation Warp).
This new drive (which is the true Quantum Slipstream) is powered by resources found in the Periphery (where the old Conclave was) and the one prototype they build is installed on Voyager. With Denara Pel joining them they prepare to leave for Known Space to let Starfleet know about all that they've encountered.
However, before they can go a major complication arises.
A Talaxian merchant ship or mining ship just minding its own business (maybe Talaxians), the Captain has a pet that's a counterpart to a Dog, etc.
Then a large object would appear on their scanners, emerging from some kind of unknown rift near the ship, throwing it out of control.
VOY would pick up the automated distress beacon and send an away team to investigate.
Someone (Harry, maybe) would be looking around in one area and find evidence of a fight with energy weapons, but no signs of disintegrated bodies on the Vidiian scanner (they use those now instead of Tricorders) and then locates one member of the crew at the communications, except he's dead. He looks like he was mauled by some vicious animal.
He would then go deeper and see several other crew members who have all been killed in the same way, and several of them look like they were fighting something when they died. He doesn't realize there's something in the chamber with him, and it seems to have extra "bits" on it that are artificial.
He then finds one sole surviving Talaxian who locked himself in a locker to survive, but he's in severe shock. As he calls the medical team on his communicator, Harry hears a growl and turns around just in time to barely dodge a tackle by the Captain's pet, which has been turned into a vicious killer. It has robotic enhancements and shoots tubules out of its' mouth. It finally gets him pinned down, but before it can rip him up the Talaxian picks up Kim's phaser and kills the thing.
He then tells the rescue team that a humongous vessel appeared out of no where and knocked their ship out of control, and beamed 2 of their crew onto the mining ship. They transported several of the mining crew away, but the remaining crew fought back and killed one of them with their weapons, but somehow the second one was unaffected by them (adaptative shield) but the Pet attacked and killed the other one with its' teeth and claws. Yet before it died the alien injected the pet with something, mutating it into a bio-mechanical monster that slaughtered the rest of the crew except him, who hid until Voyager arrived.
He'd show them the corpse of the alien the pet killed before it mutated: It's a Borg.
