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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Templar: [QB] Anyone care to speculate on just how and with what the Sol system is defended? We know of the Mars Defense Perimeter, but that can't be just it, the coverage is too small and from what we've seen the performance isn't that great either. They mentioned planetary defenses in "Paradise Lost", but didn't go into great details on that (there was certainly nothing shown attacking the Borg cube in Earth orbit in "BoBW"). There should be a Spacedock in orbit, too, but no one is positive on how well those things are armed (SFB aside). Starfleet was only able to rally 40 ships during the first Borg incursion as a final defense line, and basically no organized defense effort from the point the Borg cube entered Federation space to when it reached Wolf 359 (mind you that could be attributed to spetacularly stupid fleet deployment). The number of ships in system seems to be rather small, despite it being the biggest collection of Starfleet orbital facilities besides maybe Antares. You only had a single ship chasing after Harry in that alternate reality eps of VOY, I think Quark ran into a Nebula in orbit of Earth in "Little Green Man", and while the Lakota and the Defiant was busy creaming eachother, no other ships can along to say "hey, what the heck are you guys doing?" Then there's the Breen attack on Starfleet HQ. Wyomn (sp?) or Damar kept saying how it's a pitty they lost so many ships, making it sound like they lost a [i]lot[/i] of ships. So Starfleet must have mustered up a significant force to defend Earth, but still letting enough Breen ships getting past to crack the defenses around Starfleet HQ. However we're not quite sure just how many Breen ships there were, and how far they got into Federation space before they were detected and engaged. I think I'm confusing myself here. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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