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Subject: Re: Borg Cube vs Super Star Destroyer

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Major Diarrhia

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Date Posted: 08:31:16 11/04/02 Mon
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In reply to: Voice of Reason 's message, "Re: Borg Cube vs Super Star Destroyer" on 09:35:16 11/01/02 Fri

>>If we're talking about just one cube, no, the cube
>>will be sacrificed as an experiment to determine the
>>SSD's strength. The Borg couldn't care less about one
>>ship, so they wouldn't run, dodge, or anything short
>>of adapting their shields and armor.
>
>Sacrafice, I can't say I've heard of the borg
>sacraficing a ship for an experiment. Now I've seen
>the queen sacrifice drones for experiments but not a
>whole cube.
>
>Now here is an interesting Tid-Bit that Tech/TrekGOD
>emailed me. Imagine the borg being on really big
>computer system. Which in essenice they are. Every
>drone brings x amount of "proccessing power" or hertz
>to the borg collective to handle/store/proccess
>information for their adaption technology. For every
>drone that the Queen kills or is lost would issue a
>loss to the collective and the data that was stored in
>the drones would also be lost. If you loose to many
>you will loose the technological gains from what ever
>cultures they contained. Now can you imagine in
>'Unimatrix Zero' part II how much she lost just to try
>to get rid of this infection. Plus the whole
>unicomplex in Endgame. (Taking what was said into
>consideration) I would imagine that because of Janeway
>they would have a substantial loss of "performace"
>(pardon the computer terms) in dealing with
>technologicly advanced cultures.
>
>--and don't punsih me for using his evil name
>I just wanted to bring up this because it would make
>since as to what would aspire the borg to expand.

I can't remember if what I'm about to say is true or not but in one episode I remember 7 of 9 saying that she was afraid to die because she can't be shure of what will happen to her once she is dead. She then says that this would not have been a concern while part of the Borg becuase her memories would have lived on within the colective concesness. So in at least my opinion the loss of drones is a moot point, we also see drones sacrificed to learn weapons modulations every time there is a battle betwene energy weapon weilding persons and Borg drones. When you also take into consideraton the speed at which Borg ships can repair themselfs and equate this with building time from scratch, I think the loss of a single ship is also moot as well.

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