Assimilated Fighters

posted on April 29th, 2012, 6:19 pm

Could the Incubation Centres assimilation ability be made to work on fighters? As far as I can tell, they don't seem to be right now.

posted on April 29th, 2012, 9:10 pm

How? There is no place in the fighters to transport a drone in to assimilate the pilot?

posted on April 29th, 2012, 10:13 pm

How? There is no place in the fighters to transport a drone in to assimilate the pilot?

Drones don't need air.

Fighters need a carrier, though.

posted on April 29th, 2012, 10:56 pm

i think if a drone boarded a fighter and captured it, the drone would active the self destruct and return to its ship. so maybe fighters could just explode in this case.

and there is space inside a fighter for a couple drones, they are like shuttles/runabouts.

posted on April 30th, 2012, 6:58 pm

Yeah, this clearly would serve no purpose I don't get this idea at all.

[Tyler]

posted on April 30th, 2012, 7:00 pm

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You really can't imagine what purpose free, disposable redshirts drawing enemy fire could have?

posted on April 30th, 2012, 8:29 pm

i think if a drone boarded a fighter and captured it, the drone would active the self destruct and return to its ship. so maybe fighters could just explode in this case.

and there is space inside a fighter for a couple drones, they are like shuttles/runabouts.

I think they'd decommission it for resources.

posted on April 30th, 2012, 8:48 pm

I think they'd decommission it for resources.

realistically it makes sense, but in game there is no way to get that done. so if they had no way to decomission they would just destroy it as it's useless.

posted on April 30th, 2012, 9:56 pm

realistically it makes sense, but in game there is no way to get that done. so if they had no way to decomission they would just destroy it as it's useless.

It could be done, but I think the important part of the idea was the visual effect of borg fighters.    Im all for the automatic assimilation of fighters, as long as it is not easy.  They would have to be really close to the station. 

posted on April 30th, 2012, 10:18 pm

Are the Borg that desperate for resources that they would bother putting the effort into capturing it? It's not top-of-the-line tech, so not worth assimilating. They would surely just destroy them from afar.

posted on April 30th, 2012, 10:44 pm

Which would mean shooting at the fighter instead of the ships nearby, when they could use it to make the enemy waste shots doing it for them.

Only interesting tech is assimilated to keep but they will take other stuff, the Incubation Centre pretty much spells that part out.