posted on April 23rd, 2009, 10:50 am
I personally believe that the feedback is a possible at dogfight range, but not any further. It should have a reaction delay, so some portion of damage will be received though. I think this shall be implemented by a reflection module for the vessels.
As the borg are able to create a transwarp tunnel they may also be able to create local deformations of spacetime, so that a "gravimetric" wall is formed. Assuming there is a grid of such (highly hypothetical) gracity forming nodes, an overlaying the fields may create an arbitrary directed wall (though it will not be plane, but konvex). So they could direct an incoming beam anywhere they want. Creating these reflectors will cost a great amount of energy, and the reflected energy will be smaller than the incoming one, because of scattering at the non-flat wall. The reason for the delys is obviously that the beam (as it travells with lightspeed) is only seen when it arrices, and it costs a significant amount of time to react and build up that countermeasure.
, which could - if that module s spread over the hull - form a grid or reactive force-generators. As the borg are quite capble of
