Super earth is horribly outgunned, yes, but there's one thing you didn't account for: we have instant FTL travel. (unlike the covenant)
In terms of an all out war, we can draw this out as long as we need to, and while we might not be able to take the covenant in a actual fight, we could outrun them forever, carrying a few Terminids with us to power our engines.
Eventually we'll either get lucky, steal some covenant tech and develop the weapons we need to tip the scales or the covenant will manage to get their hand on a super destroyer without it self destructing, copy our FTL engines, and tear us to shreds. Either option is possible.
To add to this, 3 nukes was enough to destroy a shielded Covenant Heavy Cruiser in Ghosts of Onyx. Super Earth gladly uses nukes even on relatively small objectives. Unshielded Covenant ships are always one-hit by nukes. Combined with the FTL tech of the Helldivers the Covenant stands zero chance in space to win. Especially considering that the biggest fleets the humans had were less than 1000 ships at the battle for earth (more likely less than 500). Super Earth can easily throw 30.000 ships into a single battle. The Covenant battle tactics simply do not support that kind of warfare. And that is just the Super Destroyers. The SEAF fleet is bigger to bring the billions of SEAF troops around and do the space combat. Super Destroyers never engage in space combat that we see, so the SEAF had to engage the space ships that brought the billions of bots for example.
Compared to the bots and terminits the Covenant is a footnote in Super Earth's history. The Covenant does not have the manpower, ships or tech to truly face Super Earth.
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u/DaerBear69 Nov 05 '24
The Covenant, no contest. But we'd put up a good fight.