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Sol System
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This is some text I wrote for my upcoming "Borg technology briefing" page. I welcome any critiques.

The most common vessel in use by the Borg is the cube. Its unwieldy appearance belies the threat this ship represents. It has heralded the end of thousands of cultures across the galaxy. The Borg cube is a model of efficiency, a driving motive behind the actions of the Collective. Its design is almost completely decentralized, with no traditional sections such as engineering or life support. Such tasks are carried out throughout the entire vessel. Such a design means that the ship can have up to seventy-eight percent of its
structure destroyed before becoming nonoperational.

The cube is capable of accelerations at sublight speeds that should, according to Starfleet
simulations, tear the ship apart. How the Borg are able to overcome such inertial difficulties is unknown, though it is presumed they use something similar to the IDF/SIF systems aboard a starship, only vastly more powerful. It is also unknown how Borg vessels move at all at sublight speeds, as there are no impulse engines, and no detectable indications of alternate means of propulsion.

For warp speeds, Borg vessels use a variety of different methods. The cube, like other Borg vessels, has no warp nacelles. Its warp field is generated from deep within the ship, forming a powerful field that is very easy to manipulate. Borg ships usually travel at speeds in the upper transwarp domain; warp 9.99+. They also have access to at least two other forms of transwarp drive. The first is not a drive at all, but an artificial wormhole called a transwarp conduit. Any vessel can travel through one, assuming it can decode the "lock" placed on the endpoints. The endpoints are sealed off spatially, and are
opened by a tachyon beam at the appropriate frequency. It is presumed that the Borg create these conduits at certain strategic points throughout space. However, the actual
construction process has never been witnessed. The other form of transwarp is similar, but it requires a special warp coil, or transwarp coil. The conduit is then created on the spot. It is unknown whether this creates true wormhole phenomena, or whether the wormhole-like effects (sensors register a tunnel through space-time) are a product of accessing such deep subspace domains.

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"Don't call me at work again. Oh no, the boss still hates me. I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore, and there's a restaurant we should check out where the other nightmare people like to go...I mean nice people, baby wait, I didn't mean to say nightmare."
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Federation Shipmaster
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Warp 9.99+ isn't transwarp.

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Warped1701
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I thought that transwarp was over Warp 10.

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Sol System
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See this thread for details into my transwarp interpretation.

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"Don't call me at work again. Oh no, the boss still hates me. I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore, and there's a restaurant we should check out where the other nightmare people like to go...I mean nice people, baby wait, I didn't mean to say nightmare."
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Jim Phelps
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BTW, it has been pointed out to me that in "Dark Frontier", somebody says that the cube is roughly 28 cubic kilometers in volume, which means a little over 3km on a side.

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Cargile
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warp 10 is a form of transwarp.

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Think of it this way, at least we will be in prison together.
Tom to B'Lanna, upon reaching Earth and and being arrested by Tuvok.


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Sol System
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Cargile, is your warp stuff online somewhere? Your explanations are more detailed than mine. I'd like to link to them once I get this put together.

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"Don't call me at work again. Oh no, the boss still hates me. I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore, and there's a restaurant we should check out where the other nightmare people like to go...I mean nice people, baby wait, I didn't mean to say nightmare."
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Jeff Raven
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actually, I think you're all warped!

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<----- No, that would just be me.

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The First One
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Actually, I was wondering about the seventeen hundred people who'd been warped before you. . . 8)

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1701, if you count Warped0.

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Warped1701
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*shakes his head and walks off*

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Curry Monster
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*Mutters* You people are nuts....almonds to be exact.

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when the road's washed out,they pass the bottle around
and wait in the arms,of the cold cold ground



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Elim Garak
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I like to eat almonds.

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Garak: "I do apologize. You must be incensed. In fact, if I were in your shoes, I'd... grab a bottle of champagne and shoot me." (DS9: "Our Man Bashir")


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I prefer pecans.
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