Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1287200" data-attributes="member: 6929">Grr. Network ate my post. Retyping.Not so. Bombers have historically been useful in naval engagements. I'd cite examples if I knew the names of the battles... the primary difference between a bomber heading for your ship and a fighter heading for your ship is that the bomber can carry a much larger quantity of explosives.See above for correction of my misestimate of Earthforce's size. But yes - Starfleet is really slow compared to Earthforce's hyperspace transit systems (6 months to cross the Federation, a few hours or days for B5 ships), so EF will have response and strike capabilities far in excess of Starfleet.This was the meat of my previous post attempt. I'll sum up my points:- Shadow co-opter parasites (see modern Centauri politics).- Shadow cyberaffinitive human slaves (used in Sheridan's Battle of Mars); the equivalent of Trek's 'this virus will finish the Borg once and for all, no really'?- Shadow proficiency with nanotech (Drakh Plague).- Shadow planetbuster technology that they break out when things get serious (Borg seem to need planets, what happens if they lose those planets?)- Shadow cutter beams. Borg assimilate energy weapons, but (as First Contact demonstrated) not physical assault. Many B5 weapons are particles of some kind (Vree antiproton cannons, the more traditional particle beams, etc etc). I don't know whether Shadow cutter beams are particulate or not, but even if they aren't, they're the kind of thing that cuts a Minbari Sharlin cruiser in half with one pulse. Something the Federation-rivalling weapons of the B5 'young races' could never hope to do - and if those weapons rival the Federation, and the Federation can damage Borg cubes, imagine what the superior Shadow weapons can do.- Shadow hyperspace/realspace cohabitation. Supreme control over this ability means Shadows are only there when they want to be, but can see you at all times. Borg hyperdimensional architecture and transwarp tech doesn't compare.- Finally, the Borg have one advantage: massive, massive population. (All of whom, seemingly, can mature into a Borg Queen if she's been blown up or melted this week and is thus otherwise unavailable.) This huge population (space cities in the trillions) could tip the scales the other way, as Shadows are by no means invulnerable...</blockquote>

Verification