User:McGig/Sandbox/Borg Collective Ships

"We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

    —The Borg

"You can't outrun them; you can't destroy them. If you damage them, the essence of what they are remains; they regenerate and keep coming. Eventually you will weaken, your reserves will be gone… They are relentless."

    —Q

Borg Collective starships are some of the most imposing, feared vessels in the Milky Way galaxy. Borg ships are designed for functionality over style and are often stylized in basic geometric shapes. As part of their functionality, Borg vessels are largely decentralized. They have no distinct bridge or engineering section, and do not require living quarters; instead, the corridors of each Borg vessel are lined with Borg alcoves so that drones may effectively regenerate in sections where they work.

Each Borg vessel is controlled directly by the Hive Mind, allowing for quick response time and adaptation in combat. Additionally, Borg vessels have a high rate of regeneration which can make them effective in combat with over half of the vessel inoperable. In the end, each Borg vessel is designed for one purpose: the effective, swift, and overwhelming assimilation of other species to add to the perfection of the Borg Collective.

Borg Probe

Borg Probe-class scout ship
Information
Affiliation	Borg Collective
Status	Active
Type	Scout ship
Role	Patrol ship Scout ship
Service
Operator	Borg Collective
Population
Standard Complement	100 drones
Dimensions
Length	360 meters
Propulsion
Propulsion System	Warp drive Transwarp drive
Armaments
Energy Weapons	High yield plasma disruptor beams
Torpedo Launchers	1 fore launcher
Shields	Deflector shields
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The Borg Probe is one of the smallest vessels in the Borg fleet, primarily tasked as a long-range scouting vessel. The Probe is often assigned to scouting and intelligence gathering on low-resistance targets for potential assimilation and relaying that information back to the Collective. Due to the nature of their assignments, these vessels are also often the first ones encountered by unassimilated species.

In Play

• First order engagement
• Expendable lesson-learner
• Enough time, enough numbers, gonna be a problem.

Borg Sphere

Borg Sphere-class long range tactical vessel
Information
Affiliation	Borg Collective
Status	Rolling about
Type	Long Range Tactical Vessel
Role	Death Orange Long Range Tactical operations
Service
Operator	Borg Collective
Population
Standard Complement	~11,000 drones
Dimensions
Diameter	600m
Propulsion
Propulsion System	Warp drive Transwarp drive
Armaments
Energy Weapons	Tractor beams Plasma beams
Torpedo Launchers	Torpedoes
Shields	Deflector shields Ablative hull armour
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To come

In Play

• That's no moon!
• It's not a Death Star either
• Still pretty scary

Borg Cube

Borg Cube-class
Information
Affiliation	Borg Collective
Status	Active
Role	Planetary assimilation Medium to High Threat engagement
Service
Operator	Borg Collective
Population
Standard Complement	~64,000 to ~130,000 drones
Dimensions
Length	3000m
Width	3000m
Height	3000m
Propulsion
Propulsion System	Warp drive Transwarp drive
Armaments
Energy Weapons	Cutting Beams Tractor Beams Plasma Beams
Torpedo Launchers	Magnetometric guided charge missiles Torpedoes
Shields	Subspace Fields Electromagnetic field Force fields Adaptive shielding
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"At twenty-two hundred hours and twelve minutes, a distress signal was received at Starbase 157. The Lalo reported contact with an alien vessel described as "cube-shaped". The distress signal ended abruptly. She has not been heard from since."

    —Vice Admiral J.P. Hanson, 2366

When most people think of Borg starships, they think of this paperweight. It's a warp-capable, cutting beam-armed, torpedo-spewing, assimilation-capable, platonic solid geometry lesson and it's coming for you! The first time they came at the Federation they forgot to activate their VPN, letting a malicious hacker execute remote commands on their ship. The second time around they forgot to lock out a former employee's user account who used it for malicious purposes as well, identifying a weak spot in the particular cube.

Seriously, the Borg need better network security. They should get SurfShark with my discount code PuzzleGod20 for 20% off their first purchase, protecting up to 6 cubes at once!

In Play

• It's faster than you. Better armed than you. It won't stop. It took whole battlefleets just to slow one of these down the second time around and it still didn't work.
• Honk-honk! Coming through!
• It's the size of DS9 without the empty space and it will chase you! Are you afraid yet?

Borg Tactical Cube

Borg Tactical Cube-class
Information
Affiliation	Borg Collective
Status	Active
Role	Planetary Assimilation High Threat engagement
Service
Operator	Borg Collective
Population
Standard Complement	~64,000 to ~130,000 drones
Dimensions
Length	3000m
Width	3000m
Height	3000m
Propulsion
Propulsion System	Warp drive Transwarp drive
Armaments
Energy Weapons	Cutting Beams Tractor Beams Plasma Beams
Torpedo Launchers	Torpedoes
Shields	Subspace Fields Electromagnetic field Force fields Adaptive shielding
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"If the Continuum has told you once, they have told you a thousand times: DON'T PROVOKE THE BORG!!!"

    —Q, to Q Junior

Take one Borg Cube, slap on some armour plates, and a few more weapon points. And you're done. Now, if you need me, I'm moving to a different galaxy.

In Play

• The Borg took the standard Cube and made it scarier. How? Who told them they needed to make a Cube scarier?
• You better have a fancy plan just to run away from one of these things. Fighting one just isn't an option.
• No, seriously, don't fight it. You'll just teach them all our good fighting moves we rely on for kicking the smaller ships around.

Borg Diamond

Borg Diamond-class
Information
Affiliation	Borg Collective
Status	Active
Role	Large scale assimilation coordination Borg Queen conveyance
Service
Operator	Borg Collective
Propulsion
Propulsion System	Warp Drive Transwarp drive
Armaments
Energy Weapons	Plasma beams
Torpedo Launchers	Torpedo launchers
Shields	Deflector Shields
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The Borg Diamond, also know as the octahedron, is a purpose-constructed vessel for the Collective, outside of their normal operating modalities. The vessel operates as a command and control vessel by designated Borg leaders, commonly Queens when brought into being, during campaigns against powerful or resilient enemies requiring a more focused resolution pathway and minimised subspace latency for adaptation and engagement approach dynamism.

If a Borg Diamond is operating in the area, it is a clear sign the sector is of importance to the Collective and other forces are nearby. Do not engage. Do not conduct further scans. Disengage and report all findings to Starfleet or the nearest allied power immediately.

In Play

• Has all the wifi
• Seriously, one Queen thought she was too good to just use a Cube, had to make a custom car
• Boudicca approves, what with all the spiky bits