Metrion Cascade wrote: Conceded, but this doesn't help you.
Ah, a No-Limits fallacy. To quote Mike Wong: "Officer, I didn't see a speed limit sign, so therefore, the speed limit must be infinity!"But you still can't find any example of what it takes to penetrate drone shields. No energy weapon has ever done this onscreen, so we can't establish an upper limit for them. We can assume they're less powerful than Borg cube shields, which were only felled by several days of combined fire from an undetermined number of ships.Because phasers do not have the raw power that blasters do. And since lightsabers are clearly more powerful than blasters, Lightsaber>phaser.
In any case, Alyeska did bring up a limit: the borg had trouble adapting to a 10MJ weapon. Just how much trouble, I don't know, I haven't seen the episode in question. However, I can draw a conclusion from this:
IIRC, the Clonetrooper rifle is rated at 8MJ. Unless it is phenomenally more powerful than other SW hand weapons (and I don't believe this is the case), then the lightsabers burning through a door accomplish something that MJ-level weapons can't.
Conclusion: Lightsabers are much more effective than blasters, weapons that could quite easily give borg drones trouble.
Here is my claim, as I have proved it:
Lightsaber>blaster>drone shield>phaser.
Nor have you given any proof of a dorg drone's ability to stand up to a blaster bolt, or for that matter, a lightsaber.You never proved that blasters are more powerful than drone shields. You never offered any comparison at all.
Good. That means that only a comparative few of them carry real weapons. This is going to be a cakewalk for Vader.Run of the mill drones have no distance weapons. Only brute strength and assimilation tubules.
Again, the No Limits fallacy rears its ugly head. Might I remind you that phasers have been pretty much the only weapon we've seen employed against borg drones multiple times, which means we're drawing from a limited pool of knowledge. Let me make an analogy.As it stands, the only concrete thing we know about drone shields is that they are less powerful than cube shields.
Cube shields>drone shields. We can assume that shipmounted phasers and torpedoes will kill a drone, since they damage cubes. But no energy weapon has ever actually been shown penetrating drone shields.
Say I'm testing a bulletproot vest made of kevlar. I spend several hours using a pistol and maybe a sub machinegun to shoot it. It stops all the bullets. Then, I roll out a Tiger tank. Will you confidantly state that since no projectile has ever been seen piercing this kevlar vest, that the tank will be unable to do so?
My point here is that when we see a shield go up against the same type of weapon over and over again, it's telling us little other than that the shield can deflect that type of weapon.