"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." image - Star Trek: Armada 3 mod for Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Star Trek: Armada III begins with the first stirrings of the Dominion War and allows players to take command of five unique factions, the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union/Dominion Alliance, and the Borg Collective. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
Borg vessel designation: Cube.
The Borg Collective has attacked the Federation twice. Both times they sent a single Cube.
A single Cube is all that is necessary.
Of all the vessels at the Borg's disposal, none match the efficiency and utility of the Cube. A massive and purely functional design, the Cube is the Borg Collective's most widely used tool, deployed in every role from interception and analysis, to tactical assaults and planetary assimilations. Seen roaming far beyond the Borg's home territory in the Delta Quadrant, the Cube represents a terrifying force in the galaxy - that of steady, relentless inevitability, a manifestation of the phrase most commonly associated with the Borg: 'Resistance is futile'.
Armed with a slew of the Borg's cutting beams and gravimetric torpedo launchers, the Borg Cube can and routinely does engage entire fleets effectively - engagements it most often wins. Very few species in the galaxy have been known to offer sufficient resistance to prevent even a single Cube from achieving its goals. Also equipped with tractor beams that drain most known forms of shields, as well as specialised shield draining torpedoes, the Cube can quickly render most vessels completely defenceless, ready to be vaporised or torn apart, or boarded and assimilated by the Cube's compliment of more than 130,000 drones. In either case, resistance is indeed futile.
The Cube's primary purpose is that of planetary assimilation. A single Cube is capable of independently assaulting and assimilating even highly populated, developed worlds. The Cube has been instrumental in incorporating entire civilisations into the Collective, their distinctiveness adding greatly to the Borg's ever evolving quest for perfection.
One thing is certain - the message 'We have engaged the Borg' is enough to spark panic throughout the Federation. Starfleet's victories against the Borg on both occasions have been due purely to good fortune. It cannot hold forever.
The Borg got it right. This way the AFT is all around.
What's better than DAT AFT? DAT AFT^3 of course.
You DARE TRY TO TAKE MY LINE! THERE CAN ONLY BE TWO.
Actually, seeing as it's a cube it has six - six AFTs.
By 2 I meant only you and me can say that line
best line of Star Trek ever, it never gets old
It's...terrifying.
"Starfleet's victories against the Borg on both occasions have been due purely to plot."
Fixed that for you. As long as there are writers, the Borg will be held at bay.
Simple solution - assimilate all the writers.
We won't allow this to happen. Never.
Well the first time was really an odd victory, but the second time made a bit more sense...to be fair.
man what would happen if a Borg Cube and a Chaos Space Marines vessel had a encounter??
Depends on the god they follow. Borg would be a fun little idea in the 40k universe if they survive it long enough to adapt... Then we'd have some trouble with the Borg.
Borg vs Necrons...
Necrons don't assimilate. They annihilate.
I'd say that would end about as well for the borg as the Species 8472 conflict...
It's debatable. The 8472 possessed a biomass that the Borg couldn't assimilate. That and 8472 also had a rare ability to overcome the Borg without breaking a sweat. The Necrons are still very technological. I'd imagine the war would go the Necrons way for awhile, but as soon as the Borg is be able to assimilate even one of them, they'd be done for.
The Necrons posess weapons of equal destructive capability as the Undine, I would say it gives them a distinct advantage. Plus didn't necron gauss weapons bypass shields? That and the fact that Gauss weapons aren't weapons or energy in the traditional sense. Would definitely make it hard for them to adapt. Necrons can also phase if I'm not mistaken, so wouldn't it be nearly impossible for them to assimilate in the first place?
Personally I think the most interesting death match would be between the Borg and the Reapers.
If you talking about Firefly's reapers, it's a shame we didn't see more of that universe, I quite enjoyed that series.
No, you're thinking of the Reavers. The Reapers are from Mass Effect.
Gotcha, brain fart. ;-)
So giant space squids that assimilate species to create more giant space squids VERSUS space cyborgs that assimilate races and create giant shapes as ships.....Ya that is one hell of a brain fart..... Close quarters combat or land combat I'd hand to the reapers. Get them to board a cube and the **** ton of monstrous species they assimilated and turned into literal killing machines would probably wreck a cube in moments. Space combat could go either way imo
Shadow my brain fart was not comparing Borg to Reapers but of misreading Reapers for "Reavers."
It's hard to confuse the Borg, they are iconic.
@Nxreliant I wasn't talkin to you but rather Orion's idea about what would happen if reapers versus Borg question as that boggled my mind a bit
I believe a renaming is in order!
I hereby dub thee
'The hug box'
Borg hug!
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Oh my...Borg and Reapers. I think the Reapers would win. Wonder if they would have the ability to disrupt the Borg collective communication
In terms of tech, the Reapers absolutely would not win. The Mass Effect universe tech is WAY behind most other sci-fi tech. A Reaper was destroyed by ships whose primary weapons were railguns. We almost have functional railguns with our current technology! Hell, even starfleet would wreck the Reapers. The communication disruption might work though.
Keep in mind though that the Reapers are literally millions of years ahead of the other races of the Mass Effect universe. And railguns may seem simplistic compared to particle energy weapons, but they're still very destructive weapons capable of delivering multi-megaton levels of impact damage. The technology of the Mass Effect universe isn't that quaint. And the Reapers are far beyond most of it.
It would be a helluva fight.
Borg V.S Replicators or Ori?
I wonder how the dominion would fare against the Borg. They could adapt to polaron weaponry i assume, but with Breen energy draining tech and endless supply of Jem-Hadar.......
Well, would be interesting.
Ah who doesn't love the Borg, there just so cool...better than Cybermen or the Cyclon :)