Reapers(Mass Effect) VS Borg

[Sideswipe]

This one came to me while I was half asleep this morning. Wierd, but anyway, a no holds barred battle royale between the Reapers and the Borg. The Reapers have Star Trek aliens to make husks out of only.

[Mike DiCenso]

Well, tough to say. Do we have any idea how the Reaper's so-called "indoctrination" field will do against cybernetic beings like the Borg? One would presume that the Borg assimilation would prevent the indoctrination effect from working, especially since it seems to take a good deal of exposure time for some solely organic beings, like humans, to be properly affected by it.
-Mike

[Picard]

Is space war also included? If it is, Reapers get raped.

[Sideswipe]

I guess I should open it up a bit. it's an all out Reaper invasion. They return from their 50,000 year "sleep" cyle and start wiping out all sentient life. Instead of the ME races its the Star Trek races they have to deal with.

[Mr. Oragahn]

Without any evidence that the Reapers are super awesome in terms of capital ship firepower, aside from the huge extrapolation derived of that gigantic scar on the surface of a planet, I'd say that they get ripped a new one.
I don't know much more about the Reapers, aside from the idea that they rely on other species to do some dirty ground work?

[Picard]

Their main cannons fire liquid metal.

[Trinoya]

As a rule of thumb, most sci-fi above NBSG pretty much curbstomps mass effect, even reaper level mass effect. I don't think this will be a very long war

[Picard]

HALO UNSC would get killed by Council races, I think.

[General Donner]

Mass Effect firepower is in the megatons for the larger ships, I believe, which should include the Reaper dreadnoughts. They tend to use their "mass effect" technobabble for some kind of gravitic railguns, which make up the main armaments of most of their ships. (Incidentally, the same tech apparently allows them to ignore conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, and the lightspeed limit, at least if you listen to people at online forums.)

So they should be able to hurt individual Borg ships. I rather doubt they have the numbers to take on the entire Borg, though.

[Picard]

Actually, no. Reaper main gun is in hundreds of kilotons, photon torpedo is in hundreds of megatons - and one Borg cube regularly takes on dozens of ships capable of such firepower, and wins.

Reaper gunships are said to "be capable of megaton-scale firepower", but we already know that a concentrated attack, totalling no more than dozen megatons, can take down a Sovereign class reaper.

Meanwhile, main Borg enemies - Federation in particular - use weapons capable of hundreds of megatons per warhead.

[User1401]

The first encounter with the Reapers may not go too well for the Borg. We saw in "Q Who" that a couple phaser bursts is enough to take decent chunks out of a cube before it's adapted. The Reapers aren't just going to stop firing like the Ent-D did, so the Borg might lose some cubes.

Once the Borg adapt though, possibly by assimilating kinetic barrier tech (God knows their drones need it) they'll merrily dice up Reapers with cutting beams. Then they will go about the odd task of figuring out how to assimilate the spaceship-size, gestalt intelligence life forms that are the Reapers.

[Lucky]

The first encounter with the Reapers may not go too well for the Borg. We saw in "Q Who" that a couple phaser bursts is enough to take decent chunks out of a cube before it's adapted. The Reapers aren't just going to stop firing like the Ent-D did, so the Borg might lose some cubes.

Once the Borg adapt though, possibly by assimilating kinetic barrier tech (God knows their drones need it) they'll merrily dice up Reapers with cutting beams. Then they will go about the odd task of figuring out how to assimilate the spaceship-size, gestalt intelligence life forms that are the Reapers.

That assumes the Borg don't use a navigational deflector of some type. The Borg needs some way to clear a path wile traveling at high speed just like the UFP.

[StarWarsStarTrek]

This one came to me while I was half asleep this morning. Wierd, but anyway, a no holds barred battle royale between the Reapers and the Borg. The Reapers have Star Trek aliens to make husks out of only.

The Reapers are crushed, with only moderate exertion required on the Collective's part. Their heaviest main guns yield in the triple digit kilotons, although they do have gunships capable of "megaton-scale firepower", presumably bombs and heavy warheads that nevertheless would be effective against large and lumbering borg cubes.

However, the Reapers are heavily outnumbered by the Collective, who have hundreds of thousands of cubes, and outgunned one v one. So I don't see how they stand any shred of a chance here.


If you want to even the battle out, give the Reapers their relays while denying the Collective their transwarp hubs, limit the numbers of the borg collective, and introduce an element to make a ground war even slightly important, a dimension in which the collective is clearly incompetent in.