Cube crew

posted on August 18th, 2010, 12:54 am

It's a known fact from canon that the crew size of a Cube varies, could that be added into the game? Different number of drones depending on its focus, such as assimilation-themed ones having larger crews than others.

It's not a very important idea, but it would be canon and could make it a little easier to tell at a glance if your ships are about to be killed or assimilated.

posted on August 18th, 2010, 1:37 am

I like that idea. It would also be advantageous for assimilation based Cubes. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to extend this to any ship with assimilation centric modules, either.

posted on August 18th, 2010, 5:34 am

i agree that holding beam cube should have higher crew cuz 11,000 is not enough

funny and i was able to capture a sphere with 2250 crew so... yea... 

cube losing crew from holding beam, + it has no shields to resist cloak transporters, and it can not resist when there is a bunch of pyramids with holding beam trying to assimilate it... (some idea's without borg having incubation centers - also incubation center takes forever to recrew a cube...)

posted on August 18th, 2010, 5:52 am

I feel that the odds of a Cube (or even sphere for that matter) being boarded and taken over are .... well ... terrible.

posted on August 18th, 2010, 6:16 am

Someone was saying the other day that it can be done with a few Pyramids.

posted on August 18th, 2010, 9:35 am

could be included into the holding beam module. will take a look at it

posted on August 18th, 2010, 2:51 pm

Seems to be just an aesthetic feature - capturing 2000 crew items - even 1500 ones like Starbases - is extremely rare and requires a lot of time and opponents who aren't paying close attention. 15 crew a second for a few seconds will only get you so far, and it takes a lot of nanite bursts to get those values down (only about 200 crew per usage when you have 2250 crew you are trying to get rid of).

[Brother Gabriel]

posted on August 18th, 2010, 3:05 pm

Last edited by Brother Gabriel on August 18th, 2010, 4:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

hm, lets calc: how many scubes do i need to board a cube ?

edit, ofc i was talking of capturing a cube

posted on August 18th, 2010, 3:32 pm

hm, lets calc: how many scubes do i need to board a cube ?

you only need 1 to board a cube


now capturing it you need to either turn on the invisible mod or build thousands of scubes~

posted on August 18th, 2010, 3:51 pm

i agree that holding beam cube should have higher crew cuz 11,000 is not enough

funny and i was able to capture a sphere with 2250 crew so... yea... 

Lol I could easily capture a cube with that strat

posted on August 22nd, 2010, 8:36 pm

I like that idea. It would also be advantageous for assimilation based Cubes. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to extend this to any ship with assimilation centric modules, either.

I totally agree. This way those that prefer to assimilate instead of destroy can focus on that side of the Borg.  Right now I find it easier to destroy fleets instead of taking the time to assimilate them (course that could just be my play style).

posted on August 24th, 2010, 2:02 pm

If you want to go by cannon in this repect then a cube or a borg vessel for that matter could never be taken over by anyone other than a rival borg faction as it requires a collective to pilot not a captian/helmsman ect..  but i doubt very much that a cube being the size that it is in cannon would have anyless than 15,000-20,000 crew as the cube IS for assimlation, its a multi purpose vessel... the power to subdue any enemy and to complete planetary assimilation.

posted on August 24th, 2010, 2:29 pm

If you want to go by cannon in this repect then a cube or a borg vessel for that matter could never be taken over by anyone other than a rival borg faction as it requires a collective to pilot not a captian/helmsman ect..  but i doubt very much that a cube being the size that it is in cannon would have anyless than 15,000-20,000 crew as the cube IS for assimlation, its a multi purpose vessel... the power to subdue any enemy and to complete planetary assimilation.

By canon standards a cube can have anywhere from 5,000 to upwards of 130,000 drones on board.

posted on August 24th, 2010, 2:37 pm

By canon standards a cube can have anywhere from 5,000 to upwards of 130,000 drones on board.

Never in any episode of startrek have i heard them say there were anyless than 15,000 drones on a cube, seven of 9 in an episode in voyager mentioned exactly how many drones would operate on a cube... and if i remember correctly she said something like anywhere between 15,000 and 75,000 drones.


how the hell would 5000 drones assimilate an entire planet. and before you reply with well this cube isnt for assimilation... the borgs prime directive is the assimilation of other species... every borg ship is made with the ability to assimilate.

[Tyler]

posted on August 24th, 2010, 2:39 pm

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Memory Alpha:

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")

5,000 would be sufficient to assimilate ships, stations and outposts. That crew size would explain why the Borg sometimes use entire fleets of Cubes to attack planets.