Nightmare Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Say the collective sent down just one drone how long do you think it would take to assimilate present day earth? And if you could only drop one Borg on the planet to assimilate it all where would you drop it? Personally I think it would take several days if not a few weeks. The rate of increase would of course be exponential - at the start of assimialtion rate there would be huge due to mass confusion and hysteria, we would get a massive spike in the gragh but at time goes on the graph would level off as the armies try (and fail) to fight back, and also it would take longer and longer to find the remaining survivors (depending of the technology avaliable to the Borg) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ank329 Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 what happens if we kill the first drone before it has a chance to infect anyone else. We know from First Contact that drone can be killed by bullets. So, depending on where the drone lands, it might be killed before it can assimilate anyone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilander72 Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Science fiction science. :thinking: No, I don't think I'll try this one, yet... Well, let me know when someone solves this equation. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Well without using equations here - i'd have to say....probably a week. I mean the Enterprise E was consumed pretty quickly - and this would be on a much larger scale..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philly Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Would all depend on where that first drone landed. If per say an undeveloped country or one where no one would actually realize a threat from a single drone. Hard to say really but id say once that started an organized resistance would form, once the borg have asimilated a few million. Scary thought tho....:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 It depends really. The thing is that the Borg show a total inability to adapt to bullets. Even if they form a collective - they just don't show any use of tactics etc. etc. Perhaps if they could adapt to more primitive weapons they would do a better job but... it's not as if they're xenomorphs, hiding in concealed hives, keeping to the shadows etc. Ah well. The fact is, the Borg have just been nerfed so much, a bunch of cave men could probably beat them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shizawana Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 They still have their superior technology and their ability to adjust themselves to any kind of threat. Say that a drone can assimilate one person per hour, counting in the ones killed before they can be taken into service etc. At that (very slow) rate it would take the drone 30 hours to get one billion drones to help him. There isn't a chance in the world that we could stop them from taking the entire planet within 2 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Well it depends where the drone lands - i mean it could land in the middle of a desert! - could land in the middle of a city! - where it lands will determine how many potential drones there are... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 dude if the drone landed infront of me i would ripp his head off, and if a small country was assimilated i would buy an RPG and get my friends and round up some AK-47's and go to town on these littel buggers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beholder Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 The drone most likely would fail, there are at least few reasons: - it would have to assimilate our technology to support its expantion, now take a look at your PC, even with borg technology it will be extremely hard to turn it into something more than a... PC (overgronw data pad) :P So no real use for anything around. - weapons, no weapons for borg on todays Earth, even m1A2 Abrams has no advanced autopilot or autnavigation systems (making the tank make decissions where to go and what to do), thus there is not really anything to turn it into borg tool of destruction, not mentioning most popular rifle in the world: AK47/74 (no electronics at all - just piece of metal and wood), so it would be hard to use for drones with so specialized implants. In other hand if they can't assimilate per say a tank, the tank even if will not be able to shoot the drone can very easly just drive over it turning it to wide spread junk ;) - neighbourhood, I don't know where you live, but there are many areas of our world where starange looking guy would be shoot before any questions would be asked, and I'm not mentioning only war zones, look around your city, theres a big chance that your city has at least one area where are no single policeman patrols ;) - chances, I can't see anything interesting for borg to achieve by assimilating todays Earth, but chances are that with all this advanced technology requiring all the mainteance single drone would be destroyed just by accident, running into a truck on highway or something like that ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFMF Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Well i think the question means - how long would it take to assimilate earth - so yes we could obviously stop it - i think it's simply a question of how long would it take ignoring anything that could stop it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 If the question is - how long would it take for the Borg to assimilate 6 billion people on Earth who weren't actively trying to stop them, what's the point in asking that question? It's just a maths problem where you assume certain numbers and factor in the exponential nature of the assimilation. Just a bit pointless really as realistically, someone could shoot a borg and they'd die... Surprising they didn't replicate projectile weapons to fight them really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapman Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 HEHEHEHEHEHHAHAHAHSAHAHAHA !!! :D :cyclops: Reminds me of the TOMMYGUN part in 1st Contact. Here's lookin at ya kid. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arktis Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Yea, I have to agree that the Borg wouldn't even want to try assimilating us at this point in our history. Our technology isn't substantial enough to even be seen as a tasty snack. You could send one borg drone down to try, but all he'd be able to do is inject a people with self replicating nanites, turning them into zombies at best. I suppose that's one way to take over a planet but it would take a heck of alot longer, and in the meantime, how are the drone or the "zombies" going to regenerate? It would make a good borg tv show though. "Marooned" - A lone Borg drone is dropped on a backwards planet and given one year to assimilate the entire population. Heheh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 If i am not mistaken in the eps 'Dark Frontier' the borg queen was explaining to 7-9 that they where developing a nanite weapon that could be launched into the atmosphere of a planet to assimilate more resistante races like the human race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapman Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Yup... we remember correctly. PLUS The tech was derived from the nanite weapons VOY gave them during Scorpion. HAHA... stupid Janeway... save 150 of ur crew... n doom 20 other civilizations. Brilliant absolutely brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostShadow Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 yeah, so why bothering sending one drone... if they really wanted our crappy earth, they would use that technology... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapman Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 'Cause sending one drone is more challenging. n we KNOW the Borgs live for a challenge. Why do things the easy way when you can complicate matters beyond a Q's comprehension and screw up your chances to total victory. It's cooler that way... more creative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beawulf Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 the borg would be best off putting a drone in a largely populated area with access to transport across the world...like an airport. But obviously security at airports would pose a problem, not to mention the fact that immediately after someone is assimilated they are pretty much useless to anyone... all the footage of assimilations I saw were rather slow processes. a single borg at an airport would probably be only able to infect a few people who would lay about for a bit, and if security is paying attention they could easily be rounded up before they could cause more trouble. It would be better if the nanoprobes could remain dormant for a period so the infected people would board their planes and spread out across the world...but then how likely is it that people would not notice a borg had injected them with something....even if they have never heard of the borg. so, it would probably be in the borgs interest to put the drone in a small town in the middle of europe, that way the drone could assimilate a decent amount of people with a low chance of interference, once they had been integrated into a collective they could spread out in different directions into neighbouring countries. If the borg followed my last suggestion it would probably take 2 weeks for the majority of the earth's population...and also has the highest chance of success. edit: no, maybe a month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiggy Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Is this a serious thread? :-) Your forgetting one important point............... the Borg even though they have assimilated huge amounts of technological data from other cultures can still only operate with resources available to them. This is their constraint. One borg with out a cube would be limited to resources found on Earth. Not all of the elements that are known do exist in the periodic table have been discovered on earth and it is believed that these exist in outer space.......so with out a cube or transporation device to extract ore the Borg would be forced to work with the only the elements that are present on earth. Even if the Borg used its incredible knowledge of materials to form some sort of super a alloy of metals it wouldnt be long before scientists could break down the composition and develop a weapon to combat it. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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