Mestiko...is it still there?

[Deranged Nasat]

Mestiko's name-checked in A Less Perfect Union as being one of the worlds the Klingons have picked off, along with Organia...

Just to clarify, that's in an alternate timeline, in case anyone was confused.

A bit of perspective: in this part of the galaxy, a sphere 100 light-years in diameter might contain something like 15,000 stars. Even if only one in ten were inhabited, that's still 1,500 populated systems. It seems unlikely that all those could be wiped out in the space of a few days.

It doesn't to me -- not when you're talking about an invasion fleet of over 7,000 cubes that can apparently each exterminate a planet in less than an hour, anyway.

I think we're shown several cubes at least in each system. And many of those systems might have multiple inhabited worlds or moons to deal with -- Sol System has Earth, Luna, Mars, and colonies at Jupiter and Saturn at the very least.

Yes, thanks for the reminder. Sol got 12, I think, Vulcan 10, Qo'noS about 10 (in the first wave), Andor 8. I guess the Borg, while destroying everything in reach, wanted to ensure they dealt with the major planets, which would have the heaviest defenses, and invested more ships for those targets.

 

[Sci]

Mestiko's name-checked in A Less Perfect Union as being one of the worlds the Klingons have picked off, along with Organia...

Just to clarify, that's in an alternate timeline, in case anyone was confused.

A bit of perspective: in this part of the galaxy, a sphere 100 light-years in diameter might contain something like 15,000 stars. Even if only one in ten were inhabited, that's still 1,500 populated systems. It seems unlikely that all those could be wiped out in the space of a few days.

It doesn't to me -- not when you're talking about an invasion fleet of over 7,000 cubes that can apparently each exterminate a planet in less than an hour, anyway.

I think we're shown several cubes at least in each system. And many of those systems might have multiple inhabited worlds or moons to deal with -- Sol System has Earth, Luna, Mars, and colonies at Jupiter and Saturn at the very least. And what's your reference for the claim that a single cube can wipe out a whole planet in less than an hour?

The reference to a single cube being able to do it is an inference based on the fact that apparently 23rd Century Federation starships were already able to exterminate all life on a planet -- logically a single Borg cube must therefore be able to do it.

And I do believe that the destruction of Ramatis was established in Mere Mortals to take place in under an hour at the hands of a single cube.

 

[Trent Roman]

^ It was in Gods of Night, actually. And Ramatis and Korvat were devastated within the space of minutes, never mind an hour.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Sci]

^ It was in Gods of Night, actually. And Ramatis and Korvat were devastated within the space of minutes, never mind an hour.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

Well there you go then.

 

[rfmcdpei]

^ It was in Gods of Night, actually. And Ramatis and Korvat were devastated within the space of minutes, never mind an hour.

And pretty thoroughly, too. Ramatis' surface was glowing, having been melted by the intensity of the Borg bombardment.

 

[Trent Roman]

^ Stripped to the mantle, as I recall. Korvat was somewhat better off--there were scattered suvivors and the planet would support life for a few days before it's biosphere collapsed entirely, but Korvat also had two starships engaging the Borg during the few minutes it took the cube to wreak its devastation.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman