Class specifications - Borg sphere

Affiliation

Borg collective

Used by

Borg collective

Classification

Scout / escape pod

Description

Spherical Borg vessel which is identical with the traditional Borg cube in structure and technology, but much smaller. It can support only a restricted number of drones and is relatively lightly armed. Therefore, the borg sphere is mainly used as a scout ship, because in contrast to the powerful, but more emission-intensive Borg cube, it is more difficult to detect it and finally, because of the small size and capacity, a loss isn't that grave for the collective. Nonetheless, all Borg spheres have the same systems as Borg cubes, organized in the same decentralized way, like transwarp coils, plasma weapons and even chroniton generators enabling the spheres to travel through time. Beside the independent Borg sphere used as scout ship, every Borg cube has a internal Borg sphere that can be ejected through a circular space gate and is therefore used as an escape pod in case of destruction of the cube. The first Borg sphere to be sighted by the Federation was an escape pod ejected by the attacking Borg cube in 2373 during the second Borg invasion. However, since 2375, more often autonomous Borg spheres has been detected in the Delta Quadrant.