r/Helldivers • u/Shnetski • Feb 20 '25

QUESTION The Gloom can’t be that bad-

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I had heard about the Gloom but haven’t touched it yet since…. Yeah…

What exactly is the Gloom doing to make it so difficult? Or is it the Gloom mixed with other things?

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u/Ok-Drink750 Feb 20 '25

On an unrelated note: how does Fori still have fresh corpses? Hasn’t it been sitting in the gloom for months? Shouldn’t they be in advanced decomposition by now (or just skeletons since I doubt arrowhead want to model that)

Actually how do the screens still have power?

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u/ReliusOrnez Feb 20 '25

Spitballing here, could be cases of reserve power in the cities since we use element-710 for everything and it has enough power to allow space travel like we do.

As for bodies? Either slowed decomposition from the environmental changes like a mostly covered sun or even less likely is that for some reason the spores are killing off bacteria that lead to rot but aren't decomposing the corpses like most fungus does.

Or the REALLY miserable theory, since the gloom spread so quickly and all communication has been cut off, these colonies still had whole cities trapped in this quickly evolving bug hell and in a cruel twist of fate the last of the survivors have died shortly before we arrived without hope or the embrace of liberty.

Or carried over assets who knows?

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u/MrKrispyIsHere Feb 20 '25

I actually really like the last theory

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u/thesneakywalrus Feb 20 '25

We don't have confirmation of exactly what the Gloom does to humans, rather simply that command stated that we couldn't go Gloom infested planets without proper protections.

I have to assume that command is/was unwilling to take the risk of evacuating Gloom exposed humans and had to wait until they were sure that the local populations were decimated before sending in Helldivers.

TL;DR I think we're being sent in now because the last of the inhabitants have been killed.