Originally posted by Buba uognarf
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The Jaffa might well decide to simply irradiate all Borg on their worlds by bombarding them from orbit. This could quite possibly get the attention of the cube, which comes along to investigate.
In a one-on-one engagement with an Ha'tak, the cube would stand more than a fair chance of winning. By my own meagre maths skills, I've worked out from Beach Head that an Ha'tak can fire a minimum of 360MT per shot, at around 1 shot per second (which is actually not true, an Ha'tak can fire faster than that). That works out to 21.6GT per minute. If 300 Fed ships engaged the cube in First Contact, and they all got off 150 64MT torpedoes before being destroyed, that would equate to 2,880GT. For the sake of this discussion, I'll call that the minimum firepower needed to damage the cube, since it was clearly taking damage in First Contact win the Enterprise showed up.
One hour of continuous fire from one Ha'tak would work out at 1,296GT. Two Ha'taks in an hour could deliver 2,592GT. Therefore, to equal the feat of the Federation fleet in First Contact, you'd need a minimum of three Ha'taks, all firing one shot per second for an hour.
Of course, initially the Borg would not have adapted to Ha'tak weaponry and would suffer damage immediately. This would count to the Ha'tak's favour, but the Jaffa have not shown particularly great tactical skill, so they would probably not withdraw even after the Borg adapted. It is however, more than likely that the Jaffa would consider ramming the cube if they felt they had no other choice, at which point this scenario is over pretty quickly!
If it's not a Jaffa vessel that shows up, but instead the Oydessy, complete with her Asgard weapons and ZPM-powered shields, the cube is toast. We're talking about a ship powerful enough to defeat Ori vessels. We're talking about a ship that could still launch powerful nuclear warheads measuring in the hundreds of gigatons, or even beam such a nuke onto the cube. At which point bye bye Borg.
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