First Contact

[Adam Reynolds]

how would the have Empire fought the battle from First Contact as both sides?

[SirNitram]

how would the have Empire fought the battle from First Contact as both sides?

Two Star Destroyers at the points where the Cubes enters their space. Problem solved.

Attacking, one Star Destroyer leaps directly over Earth, issues order for surrender immediately, or one city is vaporized every sixty seconds. Begin audible counter. Two more ISD's drop from hyperspace to discourage foolhardy attacks.

[Ra]

Attacking? Bah! By the time Picard rode to the rescue, Earth would already be annexed by the Empire, and a Moff would be in Paris. That Feddie fleet got practically owned by the cube (especially those pissy-ass Steamrunners, which blew up left and right). It would be a bug on a Star Destroyer's windshield, to use an analogy, if that admiral was utterly stupid enough to take the Imperials on.
As for defending, what SirNitram said. A Borg cube would be ripped to shreds by a Star Destroyer, and no amount of adapting in the world can shrug off a multi-teraton bombardment.
- Ra

[Stark]

Why would they fight? They fight the borg because they'll kill everyone: the Imperials won't. Who would issue orders to attack, which would result in the deaths of millions? Who would follow those orders?

[Morilore]

It might be more interesting to consider what would happen if Imperial commanders ran the First Contact battle from both sides.

[jegs2]

Imperial procedure upon discovery of an unrecognized spacecraft appears to be to open fire, disable, board, arrest/kill everyone, and then find out from any survivors and any in-tact computer banks what they were doing in the area.

[Star-Blighter]

Right off the bat I would destroy Utopia platnitia (sp) and then proceed to destroy all orbital facities and surrounding ships. After rendering Antartica a giant crater, I would offer the terms for surrender. If the feds refuse, I will show them what Earth is like after all the oceans are boiled away.

Fuck it, I will BDZ them in the end anyways.

[Solauren]

Imperial Commander in charge of Starfleet:
WHO THE HELL DESIGNED THESE SHIPS?

And Imperial commander would have let Enterprise-E come to the battle ASAP and used Pichards knowledge of the Borg as a tactical advantage.

Also, Imperial Commanders are generally rutheless sons of bitches, and would have ordered the use of stuff like chemical and biological agents on the Borg if there was a chance they could have done any good, kidnapping Borg to try to hack into the hivemind.

Also, tossing Multiple Asteroids at a Borg cube would keep it's weapons busy.

Plus, if the Borg made it to earth and starts assimilating it, an Imperial Commander would order the Earth destroyed just to spite the Borg


An Imperial in command of the Borg Cube

Would have employed tactics.
Imagine the effect of a Borg cube using hit and run tactics on the Federation;

Engage the fleet, take out 40 or so ships, then warp out and regenerate back to full, and then come back in and take out more.

[Darth Fanboy]

Or, gawd forbid, use multiple cubes.

[Lord Pounder]

Right off the bat I would destroy Utopia platnitia (sp) and then proceed to destroy all orbital facities and surrounding ships. After rendering Antartica a giant crater, I would offer the terms for surrender. If the feds refuse, I will show them what Earth is like after all the oceans are boiled away.

Fuck it, I will BDZ them in the end anyways.

And why would they do that? I've always considered it a fucking bad idea to blow up what you're trying to conquer.

[NecronLord]

And why would they do that? I've always considered it a fucking bad idea to blow up what you're trying to conquer.

Those facilities would be of limited use to the Empire.

[Lord Pounder]

And why would they do that? I've always considered it a fucking bad idea to blow up what you're trying to conquer.

Those facilities would be of limited use to the Empire.

Easier to build on whats there than have to start from scratch. The Fedeartion Space Dock and other Starbases would be good TIE bases to keep the locals in check.

[Junghalli]

And why would they do that? I've always considered it a fucking bad idea to blow up what you're trying to conquer.

Because he hates Trek so much he can't suffer any redshirts to live, I guess.