The Rift Maker was a 24th century Species 8472 bioship, a mother organism in service in the 2370s decade. The Rift Maker was a large and ancient lifeform and capable of maintaining quantum singularity rifts between fluidic space and the primary universe. (ST video game: Armada II)
Service history and disposition[]
The ancient Rift Maker alongside a much smaller mother.
By the year 2377 the Rift Maker was ancient. During a renewed war between the Borg Collective and Species 8472, the Borg Queen identified the Rift Maker as a primary target during the joint Borg-Federation counter-attack in fluidic space.
The Rift Maker maintained three massive quantum singularities, one of which was co-opted by the Queen and her forces to enter fluidic space from the galaxy's Alpha Quadrant. The Starfleet and Collective forces established a beachhead in fluidic space and scouted nearby space while fending off Species 8472 bioships. While the Rift Maker kept Rift Alpha, Rift Beta and Rift Gamma open, the fluidic space natives kept directing fleets towards them to enter the Milky Way galaxy in the primary universe, which the extradimensional allies had to stop.
Eventually, the Rift Maker was destroyed by the joint Borg-Federation task force. The Borg Queen announced that the rifts would begin to close and that their forces had to return to the Alpha Quadrant. All task force units returned through Rift Alpha. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Starfleet and the Borg Queen were satisfied that they had ended the Species 8472 invasion of the galaxy and agreed to end their alliance. (ST video game: Armada II mission: "Rifts")
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| Species 8472 motherships | ||
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| Rift Maker • U0L08 • U0P85 • U1A83 • U1F51 • U1M56 • U1M90 • U1V84 • U1Y14 • U2F83 • U2G66 • U2Z96 • U3Q34 • U3S93 • U3X51 • U5F59 • U6B84 • U6M05 • U6M37 • U6O96 • U7E25 • U7H42 • U7Y57 • U8H19 • U8N36 • U8R83 • U8T60 • U9D29 • U9G93 • U9N56 | 
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