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Subject: Re: Borg Cube vs Super Star Destroyer Author: Warspite [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 16:03:46 11/05/02 Tue Author Host/IP: ipd54b1e30.free.wxs.nl/213.75.30.48 In reply to: Major Diarrhia 's message, "Re: Borg Cube vs Super Star Destroyer" on 08:31:16 11/04/02 Mon >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. I think the Borg collective would be setup rather different to how our conventional systems are created. If each Borg drone was a memory storage location (as in computers), then the death of each drone would cause the collective to lose part of its memeory. However, there are numerous ways around that (even just using our knowledge). The first and most obvious way is to use redundancy. A piece of information would never be story solely in one drone, but instead would be stored in thousands of drones, all on different ships, worlds and stations. To lose the information would require all the drones with that information to die instantly. Something I'll think you'll agree is unlikely. The second method is to make the information centrally stored in a secure location. Each drone then accesses the info remotely via a futuristic high speed link. The third method would be to think of the collective as a vast neural net. Information is not stored in one specific location, but is held in the whole net. You could not point to a drone and say that he holds the knowledge of warp drive, since the knowledge would be held in the sum of the whole net. Neural nets of this size could have a great deal of robustness to damage. However, truley vast amounts of damage could destroy the whole net. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]