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Well, I'm struck with DITL's ratios, though I think it isn't very "balanced" Ok: Borg cube in FC stayed in red alert for 4 days. Assuming it needs some 200 Exawatts to power warp and shields... : It needs *at least* 500 thousands tons of antimatter(It needs to return)
So, if we'll go with mass of 100 millions tons... It's 1/200 of mass. Good. Now look at GCS: From 212 tons to 2000 tons. Far less ratio.
Ok, it doesn't matter much, but... If Cubes were really loaded with such hell load of fuel, they should've exploding as hell... We'we seen Galaxies exploding easily by damage to antimatter containment, and if Cube has a hell lot higher ratio... They should explode by just several torp hits into hull...
Damn, sorry for stupid topic, but it at least not nitpicking...
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Nevod, some of us are having problems deciphering your typing. Where are you from? Knowing that may help us understand your grammatical patterns.
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Well, I can vouch for the randomness... I helped tutor a russian exchange student several years ago. Nevod: I can understand you just fine. Do ya have ICQ or MIRC?
Now as for the Exploding Borg Cubes:
I figure either A) They don't use antimatter B) the antimatter load is so distrubited that one hit won't vent all of it at once. C) They have some type of hyper advanced antimatter containment, or D) Prehaps they generate it as they need it.
Pick one and run with it!
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Well, in the Star Trek RPG that I play "our" Borg use a super-avanced form of quantum-flux power-tap, and a singularity-based fusion system for aux power.
It ain't cannon, but then again I play with a bunch of engineers so I had to come up with somthing!!!
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Rick Sternbach used to say that Borg cubes tap directly into subspace for both power and propulsion. We know now that they use transwarp, but there's no reason they can't use a subspace power tap.
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Er...yes, of course?
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There is no canon information about Borg cube's a)power source b)power requirements c)power capacity. If DITL's figures are confusing you, I suggest you disregard them. They are speculation anyway.
Nobody here has heard much in the way of how many exawatts a Borg cube uses while at red alert for how long, mainly because thats fanfic-treknology. (Re:"What the bloody hell post").
Heres some helpful hints we can gain from paying attention to technical details that arent derived from fanboy-websites: Borg cubes have no detectable reactor system. Data says he can detect no specialized energy producing assemblies in 'Q-Who' i belive. BoBW expanded on this with the energy tap system, which reveals that glowing nodes are the source of there power. It is decentralized so that destroying many of them doesnt affect the Borg (but they do notice, as Shelby found out). According to Sternbach, the tech staff assumed these nodes tapped into supspace domain for power. They probably dont contain antimatter, or anything volatile, judging by the away teams continued existence following the destruction of several nodes in BOBW. (this might rule out singularities as well). In fact, no mention has ever been made of the Borg using antimatter i believe (im not sure though).
And the Borg definitely DO use subspace for normal warp speed. While we've seen them popping in and out of transwarp after Descents and VGR, all of the warp 9 chases in 'Q-Who' and 'BoBW' were in standard warp space (otherwise the enterprise would not have been able to follow them).
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With all of the species they have assimilated, I would think the Borg would have found a more efficient and powerful power source.
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The Borg are part organic, so maybe the collective assimilated a species who's technology is similar to Species 8472's organic tech.
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