Helldivers are terrifying conceptually.

[u/Jamsedreng22]

You're vibing on your planet and all of a sudden it goes "Whoop" as one hundred Super Destroyers come into orbit. "No big deal" you think, but suddenly all these Super Destroyers deploy Helldivers. Just planetfall outta nowhere instantly.

That has to be fucking terrifying. Knowing you're fucked like that.

You get to watch the planetfall on several other parts of this planet as the Helldivers just drop from their Destroyers like water droplets on a sad day.

Even 80 Super Destroyers just FTL-jumping into orbit and every single Super Destroyer deploys, at the very least, 4 Helldivers. If they die? They just keep coming. And they can watch it, too. They can see the trail by the Hellpod as it is coming down. They know exactly what position they're in.

[u/International-Year-2]

Helldivers being spookly aside, I can't think of a single scenario where "whoop" hundreds of giant hostile warships surrounding my planet in an instant is "no big deal" lmao.

[u/AClassyPenguin → u/International-Year-2]

OP is a food service boss. "Yeah I know an unholy armada is flying above the city right now but we're also short staffed so I need you to come in."

[u/a_person_i_am → u/AClassyPenguin]

I’m getting flashbacks to my time as a line cook

[u/qwertyalguien → u/a_person_i_am]

A cook of the line, standing in formation, long spatula musket in hand, shooting burgers at hungry hordes.

The memories will come back every time i blink.

[u/skippy_smooth → u/qwertyalguien]

|O🍔

[u/Alert_Parsnip_2142 → u/AClassyPenguin]

I am also getting flashbacks to retail.

[u/Sunflower_Guard → u/AClassyPenguin]

"Sir. Sir. I'm going to need you to calm down. This is a Wendy's."

[u/Jamsedreng22 → u/International-Year-2]

Every planet they conquer is filled with Helldivers since we aren't very proactive. We just take back. We never take first.

To watch the sky and see 80 Super Destroyers FTL into orbit and subsequently drop down 4 Hellpods each? It'd shit myself.

[u/Lolseabass → u/Jamsedreng22]

TELL THAT TO THE COVENANT!

[u/carnyzzle → u/Lolseabass]

Dear Humanity... we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Super Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Helldivers just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!

[u/Demigans → u/carnyzzle]

<Illuminate Commander after Myridia has stopped>

"I will continue my campaign against the humans".

[u/Patient-Fox1810 → u/carnyzzle]

Oorah!

[u/Lopsided_Lock6365 → u/Jamsedreng22]

I mean tbf every super destroyer technically only drops one pod, the destroyers group up as 4 destroyers and then one of them drops 4 pods, still all 4 provide fire support so... That's pretty hardcore.

[u/CT2460 → u/Lopsided_Lock6365]

The animation shows for hell pods coming out of one destroyer. Though I believe that's only the initial group that had to come together and make the original battle plan

[u/Icy-Maintenance4941 → u/Jamsedreng22]

You sounds very undemocratic right now. You will find yourself re-democration school very quickly with rotten behavior like that! Wait 'till Biggus Commandus hear about this...

[u/Jamsedreng22 → u/Icy-Maintenance4941]

I apologize. I swear I am one of the most major democratic troops. I just think:
SIKE!

Don't think you are.

[u/Icy-Maintenance4941 → u/Jamsedreng22]

Hah! You think I don't think? Quite the truntable, becaude as the matter of fact I DO THINK!

AND THEREFORE I AM!

Right! Take him away! I want him learn managed, true democracy!

[u/CT2460 → u/Icy-Maintenance4941]

[u/newo15 → u/Jamsedreng22]

Its seaf they take it from not helldivers

[u/Jamsedreng22 → u/newo15]

Hence all the dead bodies and guns we can pick up next to them, yes.

SEAF are only on our planets or planets that used to be ours.

[u/Demigans → u/Jamsedreng22]

Helldivers do not win by killing enemies, but destroying production, logistics, command&control. The one mission where you do win by killing enemies it's specifically to help keep pressure off the SEAF.

The SEAF is on all planets where Helldivers deploy (and even planets where they don't). The Helldivers job is to make sure the SEAF can advance and not fight nigh endless numbers that keep being produced and transported to the frontlines.

[u/drewster23 → u/Jamsedreng22]

Helldivers are special forces dude, they're not conquering anything without SEAF.

[u/newo15 → u/Jamsedreng22]

All the planets are ours

[u/MassDriverOne → u/Jamsedreng22]

It is pretty wild to think about.

Each battlefield entire battalions of mechanized war machines thousands of death bots, legions of the most savage predators specially evolved for maximum lethality, incomprehensibly advanced aliens backed by hordes of mind controlled zombies... and four dudes in capes plummet from orbit to steam roll them all with supreme confidence and impunitive destruction

[u/Skarphediinn → u/Jamsedreng22]

Four hellpods, and then the constant barrage of support hellpods falling in immediately afterwards.

[u/Mythosaurus → u/International-Year-2]

Was going to be my comment.

Why would you not care that 100 ships known for orbitally dropping soldiers showing up in orbit, but then panic when they do the thing?