Does anyone have the history on Borb? A few things I need are:
1. What major things he accomplished
2. When he accomplished them (was it at the begining or middle of the War)
3. When and how he died.
If anyone knows any of this it would be greatly appretiated. If not, thanks anyway. 
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No one knows the facts, but I can give you an estimite.
1. He counquerd the Hinwar, Emalgha, Irids, Dieri, ect. and almost the humans, if not for the fact that he died before the Battle of Sol.
2. Depends on what you define as "The War".
3. Thats easy. All Voinian School Children know he was assinated by a Voinian trator. The same that defected in the first UE Mission.
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(This message has been edited by Lonevoinian (edited 01-19-2001).)
If he was killed by that defector, it must have been pretty late in the war; I think that Buba considers the actual missions in EV/O to be near the end of the war. Right?
And who in the universe are the Dirai? They must have been pretty weak if no one knows who they were. Now, the rebellious Dieri are pretty well-known for the guerilla tactics and the long siege by Borb and his troops that was required to take them over in the first place.... but they have nothing to do with any Dirai that I know of. 
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Borb couldn't have been killed by the Vionian defector! He died way way before that and you also said that he died before the Battle of Sol... which happened a while before the defector....
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Ooo... Nice history.
The begining of the War would be the first encounters when Voinians were kicking UE butt. Then the turning point (Battle of Sol). Then the pushing back of Voinian terriotory (in EV/O).
Hrm... do you know anything more about Borbs attack on the Battle of Sol? I've read the story from Jive but I'de like to know it from the Voinians side. Any input?
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Well, the Voinians had gathered a huge fleet from all corners of their Empire to fight the Humans. At least 10,000 Frigates, 1,200 Cruisers and who knows how many fighters were in the fleet. Against the Humans, which up to this date, had only met them with Scoutships, Freighters, Transporters and Shuttles, that seemed like killing a gnat with a 100 gigaton Fusion bomb. But the Humans had Destroyers and Fighters at this battle. Quite a few of them too. They seemed to have Rocket Engines on the Astroids that caused them to smash into our ships, causing them to be destroyed quickly. The Humans took lots of losses, but so did we, and when our Commander, Borb II's ship was destroyer by a Kamakazi Destroyer, we fled, as to not take more losses.
Shayborg:
You humans always assume that every species has the same life span as you. This is quite wrong. Voinians live at least 200 years unless killed in an accident or battle. The oldest is now somewhere around 372 years. It is quite easy for the Defector to have killed Borb and live to be old enough to Defect. Also, the Voinian Empire is vast, and plastic sugery has been discoverd, so he was able to escape detection.
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My imagination suggests:
The Voinians were a minor race, actually eclipsed by some of their more powerful neighbours and required to operate under restrictions which affected trade, colonisation and the construction of vessels. There were two superpowers in the vicinity of Voinian space in those days, and the only reason the tiny Voinian empire wasn't taken over was because neither side wanted the other to gain that advantage.
On Voinia, the natives could do nothing except appease these potential conquerors. Then came Borb. He was a dangerous non-conformist who believed that the Voinians could win a place among the great nations of the sector.
Borb had won a scholarship to the training school of the tiny Voinian Navy. He failed Politics and Diplomacy five times in three years. Not because he didn't know the right answers, his examiners suggested, but because he found the answers unacceptable. Borb remained at the Academy only because of his superb grades in n-space geometry and spaceflight. (There were no battle tactics courses at that time.)
Eventually he was allowed to graduate, and was given a junior officer's post on a freighter. There he might well have stayed indefinitely, but when a blockade situation developed his ship happened to be chosen to run the gauntlet. The ship was pounded almost into scrap, leaving Borb as the highest-ranking survivor. Not only did he extricate the ship, he delivered the cargo in safety and brought about the destruction of an enemy corvette in the process, thanks to a daring maneuver involving a minefield.
Borb was hailed as a hero, and in response to public demand he was given command of his own ship. He ordered it modified extensively, eventually forming what present-day pilots would recognise as a Voinian Frigate. With this first ship, Borb made several daring raids which set the local superpowers at each others' throats. This broke the deadlock and persuaded Voinian politicians at home that there might be some value in building up the military. Borb was a key influence in the formation of the newly enlarged navy.
Borb lived a long, successful life, and died of natural causes at an advanced age. All that happened many, many generations ago, though.
Since Borb, the Voinians have never again found such a leader. Nobody else has had anything like the same degree of insight. Tactics and even ship designs stagnate in the Voinian Empire. Even the policy of expansion and conquest is out-of-date; the alien races which caused the Voinians' belligerent attitude were defeated utterly, and very few traces of them can be found on what are now considered to be Voinian planets.
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