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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they used to say that about queer people too.

Dark side pride!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Dare to be different, I guess:-D.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

AFAIR the force only works in that galaxy, rendering Force Users incapable of their super natural powers outside or heck even influence those that come without ~~meaty chlorians~~ midichlorians (Vuuzhan Vong).

Fun fact, did you know that there is actually now a type of prokaryote genus named after the midichlorians? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midichloria

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Didn't Ahsoka show that they worked in that other galaxy they went to? It was not an especially good show IMO so I didn't exactly commit it to memory.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

generic engineering

Oh, never stop working badly, autoincorrect! 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

that was basically the plot of Star Wars: The Bad Batch.

The best geneticists in the universe (the same who make the clones) couldn't, but they were getting close, in theory. Could the borg? Maybe. Eventually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Definitely a two parter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We haven’t seen the Borg using generic engineering AFAICR

spoilerThey did in Picard Season 3 (which retroactively told us they were doing it as far back as Best of Both Worlds)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh right. I totally blocked that out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.