Can't finish "Asset Recovery"

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this is one of the borg missions where you go fight some borg in orbit then beam down to rescue a research team, blah blah. I finish the first part, uploading viruses to various borg devices, then get "reprogram 8 damaged borg drones". Unfortunately I can't progress from there, since there seems to be nothing on the map I can interact with except a device behind a force field I can't take down because there is nothing to interact with to remove the force field. I tried killing the borg but these borg don't die, they just go lifeless standing up then reanimate awhile later. I'm stymied, has anyone else completed this mission? I don't see what I'm doing wrong as I've explored the map extensively in stealth along with trying to fight.

Guess I'll log in again and see if something was bugged, sometimes I've had exploration planets reset themselves and then be winnable.

If this mission is unwinnable I'd like to know so I'll go do something else while its fixed.

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go reprogram the lifeless drones

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You had to weaken them then you could reprogram them, I didn't get that at first. Most things like that I can stealth up and scan or activate something without a fight, and after stealthing all over the map I couldn't find anything to interact with. Thanks though.

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Well, your BO did brief you saying you need to weaken them ;)

What I found annoying was that some of the borg just would not die. I never ended up figuring out why the hell not. One group died just fine, but a second identical group would just have the drones go inactive and then wake up again at full health, over and over again! I think I spent a good 15 minutes shooting down the last big group because of this, killing each of the ~6 drones at least 5 times over. Didn't help that the damn Undine thought it'd be funny to land at the same time...

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Some of the Borg have a device (looks like an enginneer's turret) called an interlink node. Destroy it and the borg party that started around it will die normally. I of course also found out about this by accident, but at least now we know.

As for the chat, guess I'd gotten too used to clicking through text and using the objectives. I finally looked it up in the communications log.