• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    4 months ago

    The Borg cube would find the inherent flaw in the Death Star and exploit it. Borg cubes can’t be destroyed easily just through weapons fire because they’re self-repairing and have adaptive shielding.

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      4 months ago

      I guess even if the Death Star were able to destroy a single Borg Cube, that would be it at most.

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        4 months ago

        I would say so. Also, Borg Cubes are decentralized, which makes them harder to cripple, let alone destroy.

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          Well, the Death Star can destroy a planet, so I’m thinking they could take out a single cube.

          Imagine the energy required to destroy a planet…

          But if there’s more than one cube, I’m guessing they’re fucked.

          But what happens if Vader were assimilated?

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            4 months ago

            I guess that depends on whether or not force powers work a long time from now in a galaxy right, right here.

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            4 months ago

            We haven’t seen the Borg using generic engineering AFAICR, but it seems like something they would do. Assuming midichlorians are canon, I think the Borg could discover and replicate them. Surely one of the species they assimilated had bioengineering mastered.

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            4 months ago

            The death star shoots a beam so if the Borg cube was insulated well enough they could just let the death star drill a hole through it.

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              4 months ago

              The planet killer shot is bigger than a Borg cube. In a DVD scene where the Death Star fills the entire screen, a Borg cube would be 1 pixel.

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                4 months ago

                Yeah I suppose I didn’t really think of that. I always forget how big the death star was meant to be.

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      4 months ago

      So all the Borg needs is a superstar flyboy hero type in a little one manned spacecraft with a little energetic torpedo to fly an impossible space battle against thousands of TIE fighters, fire his way to the Death Stars surface, fire his torpedo in an exact location and blow up the entire thing on his own.

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      4 months ago

      If you go by the screenshots of the movie when it shot Alderaan, the laser blast would envelope the entire cube.