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8472's entire thing was organic modulation, making it impossible to adapt to.

The death star laser is based on the resonating frequency of a crystal. So it will always be the same. Easy for the borg to adapt to.

Question is can you overpower shields in Star Trek? I would postulate a "maybe" given that the Cardassians use a giant phaser on the front of their ships to break things, and they're noted as being technologically inferior to the federation.

Yeah, I think this is the best point. Borg cubes are pretty maneuverable compared to the death stars. Their main target is planets, which move very predictably. And they lost the first death star because it had to wait until orbit brought its target into view.

Also the Borg have transporters with which they can board anywhere at will as well as remove any personnel at will. They could pop in, transport a bunch of storm troopers to their cube and pop back out, assimilate the storm troopers, then return them to the death star with their armor hiding the cybernetics and covertly take over the station. Though in not sure the Borg would use tactics like that, they did seem to prefer more direct confrontations. But even in a direct confrontations, the Borg would be able to do anything R2D2 could, and it seemed like security was bad enough that R2D2 had control of whatever he wanted. Imagine a dozen of them opening air locks, disabling hangar bay force fields, locking doors, retracting bridges, disabling tractor beams.

I think the only real wild card the Empire would have against the Borg are the Sith. Vader or Sideous might be unstoppable for the Borg. Can they modulate shields to withstand force lightening? Lightsabers? Force push? Do they have any energy attacks Vader couldn't just manipulate with the force?

No, because they don't behave like lasers (like, they don't move at the speed of light). They're more like massive, short lived light sabers, which are plasma within a forcefield.

Just because it's outdated doesn't mean it can't do damage if it's big enough.

For example the Enterprise gets bodied by large asteroids all the time. That means a Starship can be damaged by someone throwing a rock at it- just scaled up to the extreme.

But massive brute force with an archaic weapon can still do a lot of damage… the whole question would be how much can it withstand? Before starting to fail.

Oh. This just opened up a terrifying thought. The Borg would take one look and go, "Shit, we need one of those." And then we'll eventually have a Borg giga-cube on our hands.
Could be from scratch, could be from amalgamating all their other cubes. Either way, terrifying.

Small moon. The first Death Star's radius was 60 km and the second Death Star's was 80 km.

It's specifically the size of a small moon, remember that the Earth's moon is actually pretty large, 5th largest in our solar system and by a pretty good margin the largest in comparison to the planet it orbits, just in our own solar system we have Deimos at only about 6KM, and in other parts of the universe I'm sure they could be even smaller, in our own solar system Jupiter pretty regularly captures small asteroids into its orbit that could be considered temporary moons.

From the various wikis and such, the death stars were about 120 (1st death star) and 160 (2nd) km in diameter, so 60 and 80 in radius, so still significantly larger than a cube, but far less so than the 1000km you're thinking.

And size doesn't necessarily correlate to how much power they have at their disposal or how much they can absorb/deflect. Their weapons/shields are probably based on very different technologies, it could be like comparing a Davy Crockett nuke (basically the real-life equivalent of a fallout mini nuke) to an equivalent sized bomb made of black powder, or like an inch thick plate of steel to the same sized sheet of plywood.

And the death star crew was much larger, somewhere around 2 million people plus a few hundred thousand maintenance droids. Those humans need a lot more space and creature comforts than the Borg who just need alcoves to recharge in. I'm sure that they weren't exactly providing luxury accomodations for most of the rank-and-file grunts and contractors and such, but they certainly got more space than the Borg need, plus dining halls, kitchens, medical bays, recreation areas, meeting rooms, offices, throne rooms, detention levels, etc. a lot of things the Borg have little or no use for. The Borg may be able to dedicate more space on the cube to weapons and shields than the death star could.

Considering that years later, Borg couldn't handle a solar flare when Crusher piloted the Enterprise into a Star's Corona, the answer is no.

I don't believe any adaption the Borg have ever displayed could stand up to the energy it takes to vaporize a planet in a single shot.