The Borg Cube is a Grade 4 Epic Battleship for the Independent faction, built at Shipyard level 28. It is a combat ship built around one job: its Cutting Beam wears down hostile hull between fights, so it works as a grinding and utility ship as much as a straight brawler. If you farm hostiles for parts and resources, the Borg Cube speeds that grind up.
How to get the Borg Cube
Building the Borg Cube takes 100 blueprints and a Shipyard at level 28. Once you have both, the build costs 900,000 Tritanium and 240,000 Dilithium, and it finishes in 7 days 12 hours. The game data covers the requirement and cost but not where the blueprints come from, so that part depends on whichever event or offer is featuring the ship at the time.
Borg Cube ability
The Borg Cube’s ship ability is Phase Discriminating Amplifier, and like all ship abilities it is always active. It powers the Borg Cutting Beam, which deals hull damage to non-Armada hostiles outside of battle. At ship level 1 the beam deals 23,000 base hull health point (HHP) damage; by level 90 that figure climbs to roughly 35 billion. The damage is reduced against player targets, and it drops by 10% per level when you aim at a ship above your own player level. In play this is a between-battles tool: sit next to a hostile, fire the beam, and it strips a chunk of hull before you commit to a full fight, which is what makes the grind faster.
Stats and tiers
These are base values from the current game data; research, buffs and officers raise them in play. Health (displayed) is the shield and hull average the game shows on the ship card.
| Tier | Warp (speed / range) | Impulse | Cargo (protected) | Shield HP | Hull HP | Health (displayed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.8 / 30 | 100 | 20,000 (1,000) | 15,000 | 70,000 | 42,500 |
| 9 | 4.4 / 180 | 100 | 59,000 (4,900) | 510,510 | 756,000 | 633,255 |
| 18 | 9.5 / 1,650 | 100 | 130,000 (12,000) | 330,000,000 | 360,000,000 | 345,000,000 |
Weapons and firing pattern
Warm-up is the round a weapon first fires; cool-down is the number of rounds between shots after that. The Cutting Beam described above is the ship ability and is separate from these four standard weapons, which do the work inside combat. Values shown are at max tier 18.
| Weapon | Type | Shots | Warm-up | Cool-down | Damage | Crit chance | Crit damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Energy | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3,608,000–4,400,000 | 10% | 150% |
| 2 | Energy | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7,216,000–8,800,000 | 10% | 150% |
| 3 | Kinetic | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3,608,000–4,400,000 | 10% | 150% |
| 4 | Kinetic | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7,216,000–8,800,000 | 10% | 150% |
The mix of Energy and Kinetic weapons means the Borg Cube does not lean on a single damage type, so a defending ship cannot fully counter it with one kind of mitigation.
Crew slots and officer bonus
Officer slots open as the ship levels up, from a single slot at level 5 to a full seven-officer bridge at level 85.
| Ship level | Officer slots |
|---|---|
| 5 | 1 |
| 10 | 2 |
| 20 | 3 |
| 35 | 4 |
| 50 | 5 |
| 65 | 6 |
| 85 | 7 |
The ship also boosts the stats of the officers you crew on it. On the Borg Cube the attack, defense and health bonuses are identical, and they step up the same ladder as you invest in the ship.
| Amount | Bonus (attack / defense / health) |
|---|---|
| 32,000 | 450% |
| 64,000 | 900% |
| 104,000 | 1,350% |
| 144,000 | 1,800% |
| 192,000 | 2,250% |
| 256,000 | 2,700% |
| 352,000 | 3,150% |
| 480,000 | 3,600% |
| 640,000 | 4,050% |
| 960,000 | 4,500% |
Borg Cube refits
The Borg Cube supports refits that change how its Cutting Beam and defenses behave. Quote the effect only as each refit states it.
| Refit | What it does |
|---|---|
| Binary Cutter Refit | Doubles the maximum charge of the Borg Cube’s Cutting Beam, letting it hold two charges instead of one. |
| Borg Cube Simulacrum | Costs 120 shards to unlock. Increases Critical Mitigation against players by 500 and against Academy Training Drones by 40,000 at the start of combat. Critical Mitigation reduces the critical damage you take after all other bonuses; every 500 points raises the critical damage you can absorb by 1%. |
Crew for the Borg Cube
As a Battleship, the Borg Cube rewards a bridge that pushes weapon damage and helps it survive the return fire, since Battleships are strongest against Interceptors and take extra punishment from Explorers. Build the crew around a captain who raises weapon or critical damage, backed by officers that boost damage or shield mitigation. For current picks, check our Officer Tier List, and remember that the best crew shifts as the meta changes.
The Borg Cube in Star Trek
In canon Star Trek, the Borg Cube is the signature warship of the Borg Collective, a massive geometric vessel crewed by thousands of assimilated drones and built with heavy redundancy so damage to one section barely slows it. Cubes drove the assault at Wolf 359 and the attack on Earth in Star Trek: First Contact, and their ability to adapt to weapons made them among the most feared ships in the galaxy. The ship you build in the game is a different thing: an Ex-Borg reconstruction of a dormant Cube, re-engineered so a normal crew can run it and stripped of the power to assimilate its targets.
Is the Borg Cube worth it?
For a Grade 4 Epic, the Borg Cube pulls above its weight because the Cutting Beam keeps mattering long after you outgrow the ship’s raw stats. It is worth chasing if you grind hostiles for parts and want that grind to go faster, and it stays useful as a utility ship well past the point where you would retire a normal Grade 4 hull. Players around Shipyard 28 and up get the most out of it.