Population of the Federation

Cyd · Post by **Cyd** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:57 am

JudgeKing wrote:The Federation's population is atleast 1. I'm guessing 8-12 trillion individuals that are waiting to be assimilated by the Collective.

Do you mean Datas statement on how many drones were on Earth in First Contact? They were assimilated in the 2060's, the Borg would only make new drones as they needed them, so we can't be sure if that right.

I Am Spartacus · Post by **I Am Spartacus** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:13 am

How would Data be able to tell? At the very least, sensors can't detect what's on the other side of the planet... If they were over North America, the bulk of the world's landmass would be out of bounds for Enterprise's sensors and she wouldn't have been able to detect anything on them.

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:00 pm

Maybe the sensors bounced off the satilite.

I Am Spartacus · Post by **I Am Spartacus** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:12 pm

What satellite? Long range sensors were offline, so Hawke couldn't even tell where the Borg sphere had been firing. I find it doubtful they would have been able to scan the planet for any life forms, let alone those outside the line of sight.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:26 pm

That was after they'd passed through the vortex. Data gave the population of Earth (nine billion, all Borg) after the sphere went into the past but before the Enterprise followed it. That number actually seems very small, given the way the Borg 'live' packed shoulder to shoulder, so it may only have been the North American continent facing the Enterprise, or some other fraction of the planet.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:34 pm

The Borg's population is purely industrial or military. I think most of their population lives on cubes or were transfered to huge complexes such as a Transwarp hub (which that part of the galaxy could use) and the Unimatrix.

I Am Spartacus · Post by **I Am Spartacus** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:54 am

Captain Seafort wrote:That was after they'd passed through the vortex. Data gave the population of Earth (nine billion, all Borg) after the sphere went into the past but before the Enterprise followed it. That number actually seems very small, given the way the Borg 'live' packed shoulder to shoulder, so it may only have been the North American continent facing the Enterprise, or some other fraction of the planet.

That seems quite reasonable.

JudgeKing · Post by **JudgeKing** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:27 am

Cyd wrote:
JudgeKing wrote:The Federation's population is atleast 1. I'm guessing 8-12 trillion individuals that are waiting to be assimilated by the Collective.
Do you mean Datas statement on how many drones were on Earth in First Contact? They were assimilated in the 2060's, the Borg would only make new drones as they needed them, so we can't be sure if that right.

I was being funny with the whole waiting to be assimilated by the Collective thing.