NationStates Jolt Archive

The Borg engeneering office onboard the ECF station within Borg space was abuzz with activity, human and borg engeneers going over displays cutting weight off here, tweaking designs there, until finally the queen in charge of the project was satisfied. She slowly made her way to the ECF ambassidor's office where she was to be expected. A smile creeping along her face.

The Borg engeneering office onboard the ECF station within Borg space was abuzz with activity, human and borg engeneers going over displays cutting weight off here, tweaking designs there, until finally the queen in charge of the project was satisfied. She slowly made her way to the ECF ambassidor's office where she was to be expected. A smile creeping along her face.

The engineer seemed intent on knowing what the queen had come up with...

" So, I heard you came up with somting, lets here it "

The queen sat down and pressed a few keys on a wrist-computer. It activated the holo-emitter in her hand which filled the room with a glowing engeneering display of a ship... a ship unlike any borg or ECF ship before it. The bow of the ship resembles a spire, that tapers into a large spherical section which has 3 forward swept wing sections in a triangular pattarn around the bow, further back lies an even larger cubical section with no obvious external engines showing. The display also notes circular torpeado launchers in the cubical section.

"This is the final design for the Unity class super-cruiser. Borg engeneers as well as your own team have found this design to be the most easily adaptible to both our technologies. This forward section and these wings generate a 'superlaser' effect based on the demonstar cannon. They also can be adapted to fire more traditional beam weapons."

the display shifted to focus on the center sphere. "This central sphere houses crew facilities, in the human-adapted version the top portion also serves as the bridge." the display changed again slightly "In the borg adapted version this section houses a nanite bay, we can thus adapt the superlaser to a planitary assimilation beam."

The display shifts backwards. "Finally this rearward section houses ship systems and the torpeado system. These wheel-shaped turrets will give it a very effective torpeado spread. There are also as you can see traditional beam weapons and borg tractor emitters along the surface of this section. The display changed once more. "The ship is powered by a Q-converter, and 2 backup omega molocule generators. Both ships are equipped with 20 fighter-drones with both AI and remote operation capabilities. In STL travel we're using gravity drive. For FTL each species uses it's own."

The display changes once again to show a close-up of shields and hull. "The defences are state-of-the-art. External-most shields are of ECF design, followed by Borg adaptive shielding capible of reducing beam weapon impact by 100,000 terrajoules. This is further enhanced by energy redirection which removes another 25,000 terrajoules and redirects it to the beam weapon system. Upon hull impact any weapon will come first into contact with ablative armor generators which trap the energy and then boil away harmlessly into space before regenerating. Then comes an ECF designed outer hull and then a self-regenerating borgmetal inner hull. We've also included corbomite screens, so long as the ship has engines, any projectile effected by gravity will return to sender... although we can only get the system to effect 5 torpeados at a time... 10 if they're mearly deflected away."

The display changes once more to show the weapons grids "Finally offencive capability. Beyond the superlaser we have universal torpeado turrets capible of launching any projectile between 2 grams and 1000 kilograms in weight. They are also equipped with exchangable energy emitters for various types of energy torpeados. All but one torpeado turret is warp artillery capible. We also have stella flamethrower emitters on the tractor beams, highly precise borg cutting beams, computer controlled turbolaser turrets, and phaser arrays placed in strategic areas."

The queen awaited a response from her captive audiance.