• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    I’ve long wondered if a species with a high reproduction rate (or maybe artificial womb tech) and little regard for losses could do some kind of cyberattack against the borg by either making them assimilate a lot of junk data, harmfully incorrect information, or an overwhelmingly large number of members of some desired ideology so as to shift the entire collective towards that way of thinking

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      5 months ago

      Amish biological DDOS. Suddenly the Borg become obsessed with perfecting butter churns + arts and crafts.

      (Not suggesting Amish don’t care about their kids. In fact, from an outsider’s perspective they appear to care a LOT about having kids.)

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        They would probably be easier than usual for the Borg to assimilate, given how similar their method of communication is.

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      Drones and even entire cubes can be cut off from the collective. Doubt it’d reach that far. There were the “concious when sleeping” borg that were kind of a virus / resistance, so probably that’d happen