Jaevric wrote:
Erm, the Gungans set up their lunar in under a generation with access to the tech manuals, teachers and technical assistance, and a technology level that is already roughly on par with the rest of the Galaxy's or they wouldn't have power generation and shields that could hold up against fire from the Trade Federation tanks.
Only Gungun shield tech is considered on par with the rest of the galaxy. They lost when Trade Fed droids walked underneath the sheild, because Gungun infantry weapons are either energized melee weapons, or simple ranged weapons with a low rate of fire. They weren't hitting back near as well as Trade Fed tanks and droids, and in fact had never before fought offworlders. Ewoks were at least facing stormtroopers when they lost 'heroically'; Gunguns are not galactic-level fighters.
Switch Borg for battledroids, and you are only minus heavy artillery which was negated by the shield and droid blasters which were negated by Gungun personal shields. It will end like 'Night of the Zombies' against the Gunguns.
The Borg, on the other hand, are vastly inferior technologically, have demonstrated a serious lack of imagination on a regular basis, and *if* they managed to assimilate the colony would be dealing with damaged materials.
The inferiority of Borg technology and tactics is balanced by the lack of Gungun ingenuity and application of their advantages. The battle on the plain wasn't exactly a stunning Gungun victory, and they even surrendered without destroying their equipment. The Borg could walk underneath a sheild, and since they won't be met with massed blasters, but 'boomers' and cattle prods, they could win, although at a much higher cost.
As for defenses...if you accept that the Gungans are a fairly militaristic society, why in the middle of a galaxy-spanning civil war would they set up a lunar colony that they expected would be unable to at least attempt to defend itself against at least light raiding forces? Because even "light raiding forces" for the Star Wars universe are damned scary compared to the Borg.
Militaristic doesn't mean they are good at it. The army is ceremonial, suggesting their training isn't realistic anymore. They seem to have fought only against each other, and even that, not in a long time. The Gunguns of CW were strongly isolationist, to the point of ignoring who occupied their planet's drier surfaces and their cities had no pre-prepared defences. So to expect them to defend their lunar colony any better is asking a bit much. They probably wouldn't believe a galactic civil war or pirates will affect them, if they considered it at all. Without the Naboo humans, the Gunguns are way out of the Galactic loop.
Look at the shield generators the Gungans were using. The generators and their power supplies were movable by pack animals, and were sufficient to hold off a Trade Federation bombardment from ground forces.
Creating theater shields when the generators and power supply do not have to be mobile should not be difficult in comparison, and the shield generators and power supplies could be quite a bit stronger if they didn't have to be hauled around by glorified packmules.
Well, they had better set the sheilds so that Borg can't walk through them. Superior Gungun sheild generation protected them from Trade Fed ground bombardment - as it would against Borg obital bombardment - but the decisive factors would be the Gungun inability to fire back into space and remove Borg space superiority, which in SW terms would be a joke except that Gunguns may not even be able to launch a kite of their own making, and a lack of anti-personnel ranged weapons to use against Borg walking underneath the theatre sheild, and quite possibly no clue as to what nanite weapons are and can do.
