Borg Cube

Borg Cube

Name: Borg Cube
Craft: Borg Cube
Type: Heavy Explorer
Class: Standard Cube
Scale: capital
Length: 3,040 x 3,040 x 3,040 meters
Decks: 600
Mass: 114,000,000 metric tons
Skill: capital ship pilot: Borg ships
Crew Skill: 6D for all relevant skills
Autopilot Skill: sensors: 1D+2; pilot: 1D+1; shields: 1D+1; communications: 1D+1; command: 1D+1; gunnery: 1D+2
Crew: 64,000
Skeleton: 1/+15; 3/+10; 5/+5
Passengers: 137,500
Max Life Support: unknown
Cargo Capacity: 1,000,000 metric tons
Consumables: 3 years
Warp Drive

• Cruise: 9
• Max Cruise: 9.99
• Max Speed (50,000 Light Years Max):
• Transwarp: Varies

Nav Computer: yes

• Astrogation Bonus: 0D+2

Computer Cores: 8

• Computer Programming Bonus: 16D

Maneuverability: 2D
Speed

• Cautious: 3
• Cruising (Maneuverability -1D): 5
• High Speed (Maneuverability -2D): 15
• All Out - Maximum (Maneuverability -3D): 19
• Atmosphere: 365; 1,050kmh

Defenses

• Hull: 6D+2
  • Regenerative Hull: heals 5D+1 damage per round of no combat
• Structural Integrity Field: 4D+1
  • Primary Back-up Structural Integrity Field: 2D
    • Secondary Back-up Structural Integrity Field: 2D
• Shields: 4D+2 per arc
  • Maximum Shield Power: 7D per arc
  • Shield Regeneration: +1D+1 per round
  • Back-up Shields: 1D+1

Sensors

• Passive: 75/4D+2
• Scan: 194/5D+1
• Search: 250/6D
• Focus: 15/6D+2

Navigational Deflector

• Range: 1-2/5/15
• Accuracy: 3D+2

Weapons

• 24 Energy Beams

Fire Arc: 4 ventral, 4 dorsal, 4 forward, 4 starboard, 4 port, 4 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-4/15/40
Atmosphere Range: 10-350/150/400km
Ammo: energy based
Rate of fire: 2
Fire Modes: standard, continuous, pulse, wide
Shield Penetration: 1D+2
Damage: 8D+1

• 18 Cutting Beams

Fire Arc: 3 ventral, 3 dorsal, 3 forward, 3 starboard, 3 port, 3 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-4/15/40
Atmosphere Range: 10-350/150/400km
Ammo: energy based
Rate of fire: 1
Fire Modes: standard
Shield Penetration: 0D
Damage: 6D+2

• 6 Feedback Pulse Generators

Fire Arc: 1 ventral, 1 dorsal, 1 forward, 1 starboard, 1 port, 1 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: reactionary
Space Range: N/A
Atmosphere Range: N/A
Ammo: energy based
Rate of fire: 1
Fire Modes: reactionary
Shield Penetration: original weapon
Damage: original weapon

• 18 Energy Drainers

Fire Arc: 3 ventral, 3 dorsal, 3 forward, 3 starboard, 3 port, 3 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 1-4/15/40
Atmosphere Range: 10-350/150/400km
Ammo: energy based
Rate of fire: 1
Fire Modes: standard
Shield Penetration: 0D
Damage: 6D+2 (ionization)

• 18 Torpedo Launchers

Fire Arc: 3 ventral, 3 dorsal, 3 forward, 3 starboard, 3 port, 3 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D
Space Range: 2-40/200/500
Atmosphere Range: 15-400/2,000/5,000km
Ammo: 2,000 Borg Type Torpedoes
Rate of fire: 12
Fire Modes: spread
Shield Penetration: 2D+1
Damage: 16D+2

• 24 Tractor Beam Emitters

Fire Arc: 4 ventral, 4 dorsal, 4 forward, 4 starboard, 4 port, 4 aft
Crew: 1
Scale: capital
Skill: capital ship gunnery
Fire Control: 3D+1
Space Range: 1/2/3
Atmosphere Range: 2/4/6km
Ammo: energy based
Rate of fire: 1 target per emitter per round
Fire Modes: single shot
Shield Penetration: N/A
Strength: 14D

Transporters

• Personnel: 20
  • Range: 1-25/50/100
  • Capacity: 6 persons
  • Accuracy: 2D+1
• Cargo: 10
  • Range: 1-40/80/160
  • Capacity: 800kg
  • Accuracy: 2D+2
• Emergency: 20
  • Range: 1-10/18/25
  • Capacity: 40 persons
  • Accuracy: 4D

Science Systems: science skills +1D
Medical Facility: first aid +0D+1

Source: Ship Recognition Manual Vol.1 - The Ships of Starfleet (page 151)

Notes:

• Adaptive Shields: Borg Shields are nonexistent unless they have encountered the species before. Shields are raised after the third consecutive attack with a particular weapon. Borg shields will adapt to attacks receiving a +1 pip to resistance to each consecutive same weapon type attack after the third attack. Max of an additional +7D bonus per arc.
• Transwarp Conduit System: Borg ships come equipped with a transwarp coil with a range of 50,000 light years. These coils allow the Borg to create highly dense subspace tunnels allowing the ships to travel at speeds of up to one hundred million c. These transwarp conduits only last for a few months and have to be recreated. The Borg use a special tachyon emission to open already constructed conduits. As of 2376 the Borg were incorporating a technology to keep constructed conduits permanently open. When creating a transwarp conduit a navigation roll must be made.
• Redundant Backups: Borg ships come equipped with multiple redundancies. Systems are not affected until the ship is severely damaged. Individual systems cannot affect or targeted. Ion weapons are only effective if a "Complete Ionization" affects the ship. This will completely shut down the Borg ship. Various weapon emitters can be targeted on a borg cube. Ship systems components are reconstructed after 35 points of the 2D hull healing per round. This requires focusing on a specific system and not the ships general structure the Borg points.
• Borg Cutting Beam: Borg ships can cut various chunks of target starships to analyze enemy technology faster. This weapon can cut a large size out of a target ship. 20 Points is required post resistance to cut out a section. Upon successful completion of cutting out a chunk the Borg ship adapts at +1,+2, or +1D for each consecutive attack depending on the ship chunk size.
• Borg Feedback Pulse Generator: This weapon is used as a reaction skill and only on non-pulse beam energy weapons. If the Borg successfully defeats the attacker’s difficulty value then the attacker suffers their own damage roll. If the Borg fails the roll by 5 points, the Borg suffers the attack. If the Borg fails the roll by 10 or more points they suffer double damage
• Receives no multiple action penalties

Borg Cube

The Borg cube was the primary vessel of the Borg Collective.

Encounters

The first officially publicized Federation contact with a Borg cube took place in 2365, when the USS Enterprise-D encountered a single cube in System J-25. However, civilian researchers on board the USS Raven had previously tracked a Borg cube a decade earlier in 2353. (TNG: "Q Who"; VOY: "The Raven", "Dark Frontier")

Every Starfleet encounter with a single cube resulted in heavy losses. Thirty-nine out of forty ships were lost at the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2366, and dozens more in the incursion of 2373. (TNG: "The Drumhead"; Star Trek: First Contact) Normally a single Borg cube was capable of eliminating all the elements of civilization from an entire planet.

When the USS Enterprise-D experienced malfunctions due to Wesley Crusher's nanites in 2366, sensors erroneously detected an approaching (nonexistent) cube. (TNG: "Evolution")

Thousands of cubes were estimated to exist in Borg space in the Delta Quadrant; the largest grouping of cubes directly observed by Starfleet was fifteen, by the crew of the USS Voyager in late 2373. (VOY: "Scorpion") When describing the assimilation of his world, Arturis said that hundreds of cubes surrounded his homeworld before its destruction. (VOY: "Hope and Fear") Seven of Nine stated to Captain Janeway that the nebula concealing the transwarp hub contained at least 47 Borg vessels. (VOY: "Endgame")

Technical data

Design

The Borg cubes encountered at System J-25 and Wolf 359 were extremely large in size, measuring 28 cubic kilometers in volume, with each side measuring more than three kilometers. (TNG: "Q Who", "The Best of Both Worlds") In 2366, Commander Shelby estimated that a cube could remain operative even if 78% were inoperable. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds")

Propulsion systems

Borg cubes were capable of both warp and transwarp velocities, in part, thanks to their network of transwarp corridors and hubs. When a Borg cube enters a transwarp conduit it projects a structural integrity field ahead of the Cube to compensate for the extreme gravimetric shear. (VOY: "Inside Man") To compensate for the extreme temporal stress while traveling through these corridors, and remain in temporal sync, a chroniton field was also projected through specially designed conduits. (VOY: "Shattered")

Tactical systems

The main tactic employed by cubes when engaging another vessel was to seize it with a tractor beam and render its defenses useless by draining its shields. Thus, the cube could perform any type of action, ranging from destruction to assimilation, on the defenseless ship. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds"; DS9: "Emissary")

Following the failure of enemy shields, the cube usually engaged a high-energy laser cutting beam to slice sections of the ship for assimilation. (TNG: "Q Who"; ENT: "Regeneration") In a combat situation the Borg sometimes further used the tractor beam itself to destroy the target vessel. (Star Trek: First Contact)

The cutting beam could also be used as a weapon to destroy vessels showing resistance. During the Battle of Wolf 359, the Excelsior-class USS Melbourne and the Miranda-class USS Saratoga were annihilated by cutting beams, after their shields had been drained by the tractor beam. (DS9: "Emissary")

Another tactic used to disable vessels fleeing a cube was to fire a type of missile weapon. Three missiles were capable of disabling a Galaxy-class's shields. A hit from the weapon at an unshielded target could disable its warp drive. (TNG: "Q Who")

The cubes could also use dispersal fields to disrupt the sensor and transporter function of enemy vessels. (VOY: "Collective")

In addition, a Borg cube's weaponry also included other destructive beam and projectile weapons. During the 2366-2367 incursion, a cube obliterated three ships of the Mars Defense Perimeter with projectiles. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II") Similar projectiles were used to destroy a Steamrunner-class and a Saber-class starship during the Battle of Sector 001. (Star Trek: First Contact) The concentrated fire of three beam weapons was able to reduce USS Voyager's ablative generator-deployed armor hull integrity, a highly advanced future Starfleet defense technology, to 40%. (VOY: "Endgame")

Support vehicles

Ships up to the size of a Borg sphere were able to be docked inside a Borg cube for assimilation, supplies or escape purposes.

At least one Borg cube, and possibly others of its class, contained a Borg sphere. The only known recorded purpose of a sphere disengaged from a Borg cube was for escape. The sphere is the only documented support vehicle a Borg cube possessed. (Star Trek: First Contact)

Interior design

Borg cubes were typically manned by "thousands of drones," and could vary in capacity anywhere from 5,000 to 64,000 to 129,000 drones. (VOY: "Collective", "Unimatrix Zero", "Dark Frontier")

Borg cubes were highly decentralized in structure with no specific bridge, living quarters or engineering sections. All vital systems were spread throughout the ship, which, along with the presence of a regenerative hull, made it highly resistant to damage and system failures. (TNG: "Q Who")

Information and Collective communication were routed through power waveguide conduits and distribution nodes. Its exterior design consisted of perpendicular and diagonal grids, struts, and weaponry, allowing a characteristic green light to emanate from within. (TNG: "Q Who", "The Best of Both Worlds", "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")

Some vessels are equipped with maturation chambers. (TNG: "Q Who"; VOY: "Collective")

The internal pressure aboard a Borg cube was two kilopascals above what would be normal on a Federation starship. The humidity was on average 92%, and the temperature was at 39.1 °C. (Star Trek: First Contact) The atmosphere contained traces of tetryon particles. (VOY: "Infinite Regress") The infrastructure was made of tritanium, an alloy known for its extreme hardness. (VOY: "Endgame")