Originally posted by Stryke 9:
What's the fic about it?
This is taken directly from the Borg Section on StarTrek.com:
Transwarp Conduit
A subspace "tunnel" where normal limitations to warp speed don't apply. A ship entering a conduit is immediately accelerated to an extremely high warp velocity, like falling into a fast-moving river and getting swept away by the current. Vessels can achieve effective velocities at least 20 times greater than the maximum speed of a Galaxy-class starship. Transwarp conduits are activated by an encoded high-energy tachyon pulse, and they emit tri-quantum waves and subspace distortions with field magnitudes measuring 2.9 teracochranes and greater. The Borg had an entire network of thousands of intersecting conduits which were accessed through six Transwarp Hubs, with endpoints in all four quadrants of the galaxy. But the Borg also established many transwarp conduits independent of a Hub.
Transwarp Hub
A massive, complex structure through which vessels can access a network of thousands of intersecting transwarp conduits with endpoints (exit apertures) in all four quadrants. It allows the Collective to deploy vessels almost anywhere in the galaxy within minutes. Of all the Borg's tactical advantages, the Transwarp Hub could be the most significant. The Hub's structure is supported by a series of interspatial manifolds, the shielding for which is regulated from the Central Nexus by the Queen herself. The Borg have six Transwarp Hubs in the galaxy, and the U.S.S. Voyager encountered one of them within a nebula in Grid 986. In a plan to get home to the Alpha Quadrant while dealing a fatal blow to the Borg at the same time, Voyager entered the Hub at Aperture 823, accessing Transwarp Corridor 09. Then using a combination of transphasic torpedoes and a neurolytic pathogen introduced into the Collective by Admiral Janeway, Voyager destroyed that Transwarp Hub and obliterated its conduit network.
The fic about it in the AQp2 will also be explained more acurately when it is released.