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Would a Photonic Cannon actually work against the Borg?

lordrezeonlordrezeon Member Posts: 399 Arc User
Recently I was watching Voyager reruns and hit the episode where the Doctor was daydreaming about being in command of Voyager. In his fantasy he easily fights off the Borg using the fictitious "Photonic Cannon". Now this is obvious just a daydream and doesn't reflect in story reality, but I got to thinking about the basic concept.

Photonic energy is what the holo-emitters on Voyager used to give their creations temporary substance. In the movie First Contact we see Picard duck into the holodeck and use a holodeck gun to kill a couple Borg drones. Most people equate this as Borg shields not working on bullets, but those weren't actually real bullets, they were photonic bullets. So in theory could a hypothetical ship-scaled photonic cannon work against the Borg?
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  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan Member Posts: 37,275 Arc User
    if the plot demands it work, Q himself won't be able to stop it working​​
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,354 Arc User
    Any attack can work against the Borg - once.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    jonsills wrote: »
    Any attack can work against the Borg - once.

    Or multiple times provided it is a plot device from the future.
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,001 Arc User
    jonsills wrote: »
    Any attack can work against the Borg - once.

    First Contact and Voyager Borg have a very short memory pig-2.gif​​
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  • admiralnatadmiralnat Member Posts: 22,432 Arc User
    Theoretically, if your holoemitters are powerful enough, you could project a small moon. Better yet, a moon that, being nothing more than re-sequenced photons, could do anything at the speed of light. Ever try swatting away Borg Cubes with a moon-sized baseball bat?​​
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    lordrezeon wrote: »
    Recently I was watching Voyager reruns and hit the episode where the Doctor was daydreaming about being in command of Voyager. In his fantasy he easily fights off the Borg using the fictitious "Photonic Cannon". Now this is obvious just a daydream and doesn't reflect in story reality, but I got to thinking about the basic concept.

    Photonic energy is what the holo-emitters on Voyager used to give their creations temporary substance. In the movie First Contact we see Picard duck into the holodeck and use a holodeck gun to kill a couple Borg drones. Most people equate this as Borg shields not working on bullets, but those weren't actually real bullets, they were photonic bullets. So in theory could a hypothetical ship-scaled photonic cannon work against the Borg?

    Maybe it could. So could slapping a spare warp drive on a convenient asteroid and running it into the cube at several times the speed of light.

    See, this is the problem with Starfleet's entire approach to the Borg in the franchise. They keep throwing all kinds of credits down a hole for new technologies and having the Borg adapt to them almost immediately, instead of innovating with tactics, fleet doctrine, and existing technology. Go lower tech, not higher tech. I think Thor said it best:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGiSNPYj_iU
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  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan Member Posts: 37,275 Arc User
    thor had to be schooled by carter in 'low-tech'; i assume whatever he said was after that occured​​
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    thor had to be schooled by carter in 'low-tech'; i assume whatever he said was after that occured​​

    Well, replace Thor with Starfleet in that clip and you get the idea.
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,354 Arc User
    Or, as Molly Millions/Sally Shears advised in one of William Gibson's Sprawl novels, "When they get crude, you go technical. When they get technical, you go crude."
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
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  • lordrezeonlordrezeon Member Posts: 399 Arc User
    It utterly amazes me that at no point in the franchise has it ever been suggested that a ship try to ram another ship while at warp. With as crazy as Klingons get you would think Worf would have suggested it at a few points. Even the Dominion would be a likely candidate for that type of strategy, could you imagine them taking a few of their bug ships and ramming them into starbases and colonies, the Federation would have been offering surrender within a week.

  • brian334brian334 Member Posts: 2,214 Arc User
    Someone should talk to Jerry Pournelle about weapons development.

    Or Gordon R. Dickson.

    "A man with a crossbow at the right place at the right time is worth a corps of artillery a half hour late and a mile from where they should be."
  • admiralnatadmiralnat Member Posts: 22,432 Arc User
    lordrezeon wrote: »
    It utterly amazes me that at no point in the franchise has it ever been suggested that a ship try to ram another ship while at warp. With as crazy as Klingons get you would think Worf would have suggested it at a few points. Even the Dominion would be a likely candidate for that type of strategy, could you imagine them taking a few of their bug ships and ramming them into starbases and colonies, the Federation would have been offering surrender within a week.

    Unless stationary and planetary defenses include defenses against that...​​
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    tr;dr, I am winning last post wins 3.0. Thank you for your time.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    Ramming a 100,000,000 kg ship going at Warp 9 into a planet is a planet destroyer. Warp 9 is travelling at 1516 times the speed of light which results in a kinetic energy of about 2.5 x 10^15 Megatons. 100,000,000 kg is just slightly heavier than an aircraft carrier. Having the ship travel at Warp 1 would result in a kinetic energy of about 1.0 x 10^9 Megatons.

    Most of the Federation's enemies were interested in conquest rather than extermination and the only enemy races that had planet killers was the Xindi with their superweapon and Species 8472 which had no interest in invading the Federation.



  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    starkaos wrote: »
    Ramming a 100,000,000 kg ship going at Warp 9 into a planet is a planet destroyer. Warp 9 is travelling at 1516 times the speed of light which results in a kinetic energy of about 2.5 x 10^15 Megatons. 100,000,000 kg is just slightly heavier than an aircraft carrier. Having the ship travel at Warp 1 would result in a kinetic energy of about 1.0 x 10^9 Megatons.
    We don't know what the kinetic energy of an object at warp is.

    At relatistivic speeds, you can't use the E=1/2 mv² formula anymore, you have to consider relativistic mass.

    And using relativistic mass, an object approaching the speed of light would gain infintie mass, and hence, at light speed or beyond would have an infinite amount of kinetic energy and it's not going to get lower if you could accelerate beyond the speed of light. Obviously, this isn't true in Star Trek, so what the actual kinetic energy is, or what the effect of an object at warp colliding with an object not at warp is remains unclear.
    Maybe it could. So could slapping a spare warp drive on a convenient asteroid and running it into the cube at several times the speed of light
    If that would actually work by the rules of the Star Trek physics, then they probably wouldn't bother putting antimatter aboard their photon torpedoes. At high kinetic energy levels at relatistivistic speeds, there is basically no difference anymore between matter and matter colliding or matter and anti-matter colliding.

    ---

    So, what would work against the Borg? Does the plot demand it working? Then yes.

    If they stay true to the idea that the Borg adapt, then it wouldn't work often. And that in my estimation probably applies to all the tricks succesfully employed against the Borg, be it phasers, phasers with rotating frequencies, transphasic torpedoes, Bat'leths, Data's fists, holographic bullets, Drones that learned the concept of indivdiduality...
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    If that would actually work by the rules of the Star Trek physics, then they probably wouldn't bother putting antimatter aboard their photon torpedoes. At high kinetic energy levels at relatistivistic speeds, there is basically no difference anymore between matter and matter colliding or matter and anti-matter colliding.
    Photon torpedoes can't do that, they're too small to fit a warp drive. Their engine can only maintain a warp field if the ship firing them is already at warp. And the thing is, they usually don't do anything at relativistic speeds, otherwise they'd be invisible blurs. 99% of fights in Star Trek take place within visual range between objects not traveling very fast at all, relative to each other. Even on occasions they fight at warp, the combatants are practically stationary relative to each other.
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  • k20vteck20vtec Member Posts: 535 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    Sooo... we got no confrimation that warp speeds even work that way some people assume and they got saying starfleet is dumb for not follow their assumption on how fictional space physics work?
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  • k20vteck20vtec Member Posts: 535 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    Kamikaze is right all along. Our kaitens suicide torps will destroy the imperialist white pigs warships snd hit the coast of california and destroy america. TRIBBLE the 18-inch guns.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    k20vtec wrote: »
    Sooo... we got no confrimation that warp speeds even work that way some people assume and they got saying starfleet is dumb for not follow their assumption on how fictional space physics work?

    Except that Starfleet doesn't sacrifice manned ships to destroy planets. The parallel universe shown in the Parallels episode where the Borg succeeded in assimilating Earth might make the survivors desperate enough to start destroying planets. Klingons, Dominion, Romulans, and Cardassians are or were in the business of conquering planets not destroying them.
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,354 Arc User
    starkaos wrote: »
    k20vtec wrote: »
    Sooo... we got no confrimation that warp speeds even work that way some people assume and they got saying starfleet is dumb for not follow their assumption on how fictional space physics work?

    Except that Starfleet doesn't sacrifice manned ships to destroy planets. The parallel universe shown in the Parallels episode where the Borg succeeded in assimilating Earth might make the survivors desperate enough to start destroying planets. Klingons, Dominion, Romulans, and Cardassians are or were in the business of conquering planets not destroying them.
    Heck, if all you want is to render the planet uninhabitable, you don't even need warp drives. Just drop a few asteroids on the place, and reenact the K-T Event.
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    jonsills wrote: »
    starkaos wrote: »
    k20vtec wrote: »
    Sooo... we got no confrimation that warp speeds even work that way some people assume and they got saying starfleet is dumb for not follow their assumption on how fictional space physics work?

    Except that Starfleet doesn't sacrifice manned ships to destroy planets. The parallel universe shown in the Parallels episode where the Borg succeeded in assimilating Earth might make the survivors desperate enough to start destroying planets. Klingons, Dominion, Romulans, and Cardassians are or were in the business of conquering planets not destroying them.
    Heck, if all you want is to render the planet uninhabitable, you don't even need warp drives. Just drop a few asteroids on the place, and reenact the K-T Event.
    Earth didn't become uninhabitable in the K-T event. Just... unhinhabitable for a significant part of its lifeforms.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited July 2017
    > @k20vtec said:
    > Sooo... we got no confrimation that warp speeds even work that way some people assume and they got saying starfleet is dumb for not follow their assumption on how fictional space physics work?

    By all accounts, a ship traveling at warp is still present in normal space-time and can still interact with sublight matter, otherwise they wouldn't need a navigational deflector.

    Oh, wait, I forgot, that's a multipurpose technobabble generator, not something that actually serves a critical everyday function.

    > @k20vtec said:
    > Kamikaze is right all along. Our kaitens suicide torps will destroy the imperialist white pigs warships snd hit the coast of california and destroy america. **** the 18-inch guns.

    What is this, the Dark Ages? Fly the ramship on remote control or autopilot.
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  • admiralnatadmiralnat Member Posts: 22,432 Arc User
    You know, word has it they've used extended warp fields to move planets. Why not just throw planets at other planets? Or hit one with it's own moon. Or hey, hit one hard enough, and you could fling it into a sun.​​
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    Oh, now don't tell me you want in on all this! Well, ok. Look this that Egg Pawn hanging outside your window, pointing his laser rifle at you, waiting for my next order. He's doing his part. He helps conquer the weak-minded. He roboticizes the weak-bodied. Heck, he even helps keep the useless people from causing any trouble, but you know what? Join. Find the closest Nataran Empire roboticization center near you and join the ranks, before the ranks find you. Oh, I know, you figure it must be so satisfying to know I basically rule the world now, and you know what? It is, but do you want to know the true definition of satisfaction? Well, let me tell you a little story. One day, you see a brand new event. They're giving out boxes that give old event stuff. Your dilithium is plentiful. You buy a whole lot of Phoenix packs on your main, and open them all. You get one epic token. Then, you decide, that since you have all the Breen ships and don't give a damn about the others, you exchange it for an ultra rare, and grab yourself a Jem'Hadar Attack Ship and for the hell of it, a Voth Bulwark. You open both, leaving the Bulwark in your vast masses of starships as you jump into the bugship and deck it out, deck by deck, into the most awesome Jem'Hadar ship you can. You fly it. You enjoy it. Eventually, you get bored and leave, leaving the old Bulwark never flown... until later. Your main is long complete. Your new alt main, based off some character you pulled out of nothing just to explain away some starship being in service without the command of your dear admiral, is also complete. Mostly. Their reps and doffs are hard at work, getting you stuff. You realize the potential, and head back for your dear admiral, pull the most Voth themed build you can out of thin air, and suit up in your giant ship in the shape of you know what. You head out... and cause all sorts of havoc. Enemies scream out your name as their very life is drained away by your swarms of Aceton Assimilators. They complain to the devs of your OPness when you revive yourself from death every time you die. Do you show any form of mercy? No. After all, this isn't the United Federation of Planets, this is mother frakkin' Starfleet, where you explore strange new worlds and kick butt never kicked before. Oh, and you realize that I just wrote another speech rivaling your own signature. Cool. Oh, wait, that's just the original draft, it is part of my signature now. Oh, and yes, I am aware that I have become a Canadian Regent; one day, sooner than you'd expect, we'll suddenly decide to take over the world and declare an "alliance", and I shall become it's Regent. You know, like the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance in the mirror universe of our beloved Star Trek. Oh, who'll we be taking over with? I dunno, maybe [REDACTED], or maybe aliens from outer space. Guess you'll have to wait and find out, won't we? Until then, don't ask too many questions, or else my Breen allies on Titania might pick up on your -- [REDACTED BY BREEN CONFEDERACY FOR REASONS] Also, psst... keep an eye out for flying Tribbles! Also walls. Big, great walls, separating entire continents apart. Walls patrolled by Tribbles. Flying Tribbles. Flying Nukara Tribbles. Don't worry, it's not like they were on Venus with a herd of Tholians or anything, they just like the extreme heat and brutal weather like acid rain and hurricane force winds as the norm. Oh, and definitely keep your eye out on any two-tailed foxes, because if they ain't glowing, they're definitely an imposter. Possibly an Undine, we caught one of those once in my place once. Oh, and if you find a two-tailed fox that doesn't like the cold... most certainly ask him to say sorry. If he refuses, DESTROY HIM WITH A DOOMSDAY MACHINE, BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH AGAINST SUCH AN OVERPOWERED IMPOSTER!

    tr;dr, I am winning last post wins 3.0. Thank you for your time.
    Oh, look, an explosion...
  • legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan Member Posts: 37,275 Arc User
    because if you start flinging around planets at FTL speeds, that will set off a chain reaction that will destroy the entire universe​​
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  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    I think with ramming into things at warp speed, the question how much does the subspace interact with real space for the 'collision', or how fast the object is moving in realspace when it hits. (There's a bit in one of the early Voyager books when they go with the 'non-interaction' when they have a large object that needs killing - maximum effectiveness, in their judgement, would take more speed than the impulse drives could keep up instead of warp, but there was still the issue of interception and deflection).

    To note on planet cracking - making something uninhabitable is really No Big Thing in Star Trek, hence General Order 24. Fortunately everyone likes the same real-estate, eh?


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  • admiralnatadmiralnat Member Posts: 22,432 Arc User
    I think with ramming into things at warp speed, the question how much does the subspace interact with real space for the 'collision', or how fast the object is moving in realspace when it hits. (There's a bit in one of the early Voyager books when they go with the 'non-interaction' when they have a large object that needs killing - maximum effectiveness, in their judgement, would take more speed than the impulse drives could keep up instead of warp, but there was still the issue of interception and deflection).

    To note on planet cracking - making something uninhabitable is really No Big Thing in Star Trek, hence General Order 24. Fortunately everyone likes the same real-estate, eh?


    Except the Tholians and the Breen. The Xindi-Aquatics might fall in here as well, but many worlds that have good land for us may well have equally great water for them, so you never know.​​
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    Oh, now don't tell me you want in on all this! Well, ok. Look this that Egg Pawn hanging outside your window, pointing his laser rifle at you, waiting for my next order. He's doing his part. He helps conquer the weak-minded. He roboticizes the weak-bodied. Heck, he even helps keep the useless people from causing any trouble, but you know what? Join. Find the closest Nataran Empire roboticization center near you and join the ranks, before the ranks find you. Oh, I know, you figure it must be so satisfying to know I basically rule the world now, and you know what? It is, but do you want to know the true definition of satisfaction? Well, let me tell you a little story. One day, you see a brand new event. They're giving out boxes that give old event stuff. Your dilithium is plentiful. You buy a whole lot of Phoenix packs on your main, and open them all. You get one epic token. Then, you decide, that since you have all the Breen ships and don't give a damn about the others, you exchange it for an ultra rare, and grab yourself a Jem'Hadar Attack Ship and for the hell of it, a Voth Bulwark. You open both, leaving the Bulwark in your vast masses of starships as you jump into the bugship and deck it out, deck by deck, into the most awesome Jem'Hadar ship you can. You fly it. You enjoy it. Eventually, you get bored and leave, leaving the old Bulwark never flown... until later. Your main is long complete. Your new alt main, based off some character you pulled out of nothing just to explain away some starship being in service without the command of your dear admiral, is also complete. Mostly. Their reps and doffs are hard at work, getting you stuff. You realize the potential, and head back for your dear admiral, pull the most Voth themed build you can out of thin air, and suit up in your giant ship in the shape of you know what. You head out... and cause all sorts of havoc. Enemies scream out your name as their very life is drained away by your swarms of Aceton Assimilators. They complain to the devs of your OPness when you revive yourself from death every time you die. Do you show any form of mercy? No. After all, this isn't the United Federation of Planets, this is mother frakkin' Starfleet, where you explore strange new worlds and kick butt never kicked before. Oh, and you realize that I just wrote another speech rivaling your own signature. Cool. Oh, wait, that's just the original draft, it is part of my signature now. Oh, and yes, I am aware that I have become a Canadian Regent; one day, sooner than you'd expect, we'll suddenly decide to take over the world and declare an "alliance", and I shall become it's Regent. You know, like the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance in the mirror universe of our beloved Star Trek. Oh, who'll we be taking over with? I dunno, maybe [REDACTED], or maybe aliens from outer space. Guess you'll have to wait and find out, won't we? Until then, don't ask too many questions, or else my Breen allies on Titania might pick up on your -- [REDACTED BY BREEN CONFEDERACY FOR REASONS] Also, psst... keep an eye out for flying Tribbles! Also walls. Big, great walls, separating entire continents apart. Walls patrolled by Tribbles. Flying Tribbles. Flying Nukara Tribbles. Don't worry, it's not like they were on Venus with a herd of Tholians or anything, they just like the extreme heat and brutal weather like acid rain and hurricane force winds as the norm. Oh, and definitely keep your eye out on any two-tailed foxes, because if they ain't glowing, they're definitely an imposter. Possibly an Undine, we caught one of those once in my place once. Oh, and if you find a two-tailed fox that doesn't like the cold... most certainly ask him to say sorry. If he refuses, DESTROY HIM WITH A DOOMSDAY MACHINE, BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH AGAINST SUCH AN OVERPOWERED IMPOSTER!

    tr;dr, I am winning last post wins 3.0. Thank you for your time.
    Oh, look, an explosion...
  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    admiralnat wrote: »
    I think with ramming into things at warp speed, the question how much does the subspace interact with real space for the 'collision', or how fast the object is moving in realspace when it hits. (There's a bit in one of the early Voyager books when they go with the 'non-interaction' when they have a large object that needs killing - maximum effectiveness, in their judgement, would take more speed than the impulse drives could keep up instead of warp, but there was still the issue of interception and deflection).

    To note on planet cracking - making something uninhabitable is really No Big Thing in Star Trek, hence General Order 24. Fortunately everyone likes the same real-estate, eh?


    Except the Tholians and the Breen. The Xindi-Aquatics might fall in here as well, but many worlds that have good land for us may well have equally great water for them, so you never know.​​

    If you've rendered the planet uninhabitable and left all the algae going in the ocean, you've done a pretty weak job of it. :)

    The Tholians do at least seem not to go out of their way to despoil other people's worlds, though you could probably make one of their planets unlivable for them.

    Though the Tholians are the group we do see messing with worlds. Weirdly, the two times we see Tholians messing with a world's habitability, the first time they're deliberately baiting someone, and the second they're *cooling off* the place.
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  • admiralnatadmiralnat Member Posts: 22,432 Arc User
    admiralnat wrote: »
    I think with ramming into things at warp speed, the question how much does the subspace interact with real space for the 'collision', or how fast the object is moving in realspace when it hits. (There's a bit in one of the early Voyager books when they go with the 'non-interaction' when they have a large object that needs killing - maximum effectiveness, in their judgement, would take more speed than the impulse drives could keep up instead of warp, but there was still the issue of interception and deflection).

    To note on planet cracking - making something uninhabitable is really No Big Thing in Star Trek, hence General Order 24. Fortunately everyone likes the same real-estate, eh?


    Except the Tholians and the Breen. The Xindi-Aquatics might fall in here as well, but many worlds that have good land for us may well have equally great water for them, so you never know.

    If you've rendered the planet uninhabitable and left all the algae going in the ocean, you've done a pretty weak job of it. :)

    The Tholians do at least seem not to go out of their way to despoil other people's worlds, though you could probably make one of their planets unlivable for them.

    Though the Tholians are the group we do see messing with worlds. Weirdly, the two times we see Tholians messing with a world's habitability, the first time they're deliberately baiting someone, and the second they're *cooling off* the place.

    I wasn't saying the Aquatics would just ruin the land and leave the oceans; I meant that they might consider some of our worlds habitable for reasons different from our own. Different requirements, similar planets.​​
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    Oh, now don't tell me you want in on all this! Well, ok. Look this that Egg Pawn hanging outside your window, pointing his laser rifle at you, waiting for my next order. He's doing his part. He helps conquer the weak-minded. He roboticizes the weak-bodied. Heck, he even helps keep the useless people from causing any trouble, but you know what? Join. Find the closest Nataran Empire roboticization center near you and join the ranks, before the ranks find you. Oh, I know, you figure it must be so satisfying to know I basically rule the world now, and you know what? It is, but do you want to know the true definition of satisfaction? Well, let me tell you a little story. One day, you see a brand new event. They're giving out boxes that give old event stuff. Your dilithium is plentiful. You buy a whole lot of Phoenix packs on your main, and open them all. You get one epic token. Then, you decide, that since you have all the Breen ships and don't give a damn about the others, you exchange it for an ultra rare, and grab yourself a Jem'Hadar Attack Ship and for the hell of it, a Voth Bulwark. You open both, leaving the Bulwark in your vast masses of starships as you jump into the bugship and deck it out, deck by deck, into the most awesome Jem'Hadar ship you can. You fly it. You enjoy it. Eventually, you get bored and leave, leaving the old Bulwark never flown... until later. Your main is long complete. Your new alt main, based off some character you pulled out of nothing just to explain away some starship being in service without the command of your dear admiral, is also complete. Mostly. Their reps and doffs are hard at work, getting you stuff. You realize the potential, and head back for your dear admiral, pull the most Voth themed build you can out of thin air, and suit up in your giant ship in the shape of you know what. You head out... and cause all sorts of havoc. Enemies scream out your name as their very life is drained away by your swarms of Aceton Assimilators. They complain to the devs of your OPness when you revive yourself from death every time you die. Do you show any form of mercy? No. After all, this isn't the United Federation of Planets, this is mother frakkin' Starfleet, where you explore strange new worlds and kick butt never kicked before. Oh, and you realize that I just wrote another speech rivaling your own signature. Cool. Oh, wait, that's just the original draft, it is part of my signature now. Oh, and yes, I am aware that I have become a Canadian Regent; one day, sooner than you'd expect, we'll suddenly decide to take over the world and declare an "alliance", and I shall become it's Regent. You know, like the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance in the mirror universe of our beloved Star Trek. Oh, who'll we be taking over with? I dunno, maybe [REDACTED], or maybe aliens from outer space. Guess you'll have to wait and find out, won't we? Until then, don't ask too many questions, or else my Breen allies on Titania might pick up on your -- [REDACTED BY BREEN CONFEDERACY FOR REASONS] Also, psst... keep an eye out for flying Tribbles! Also walls. Big, great walls, separating entire continents apart. Walls patrolled by Tribbles. Flying Tribbles. Flying Nukara Tribbles. Don't worry, it's not like they were on Venus with a herd of Tholians or anything, they just like the extreme heat and brutal weather like acid rain and hurricane force winds as the norm. Oh, and definitely keep your eye out on any two-tailed foxes, because if they ain't glowing, they're definitely an imposter. Possibly an Undine, we caught one of those once in my place once. Oh, and if you find a two-tailed fox that doesn't like the cold... most certainly ask him to say sorry. If he refuses, DESTROY HIM WITH A DOOMSDAY MACHINE, BECAUSE THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH AGAINST SUCH AN OVERPOWERED IMPOSTER!

    tr;dr, I am winning last post wins 3.0. Thank you for your time.
    Oh, look, an explosion...
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