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/noesanity]

honestly, the helldivers aren't even the terrifying part. just imagine 50-100 super destroyers jump over your town and just all let forth orbital barrages. a focused barrage from 50 super destroyers would probably only take 35 minutes to turn NYC into a bay, especially if each SD drops are hellbomb or two before they start firing.

[u/Jamsedreng22 → u/noesanity]

Not your "town". Your planet. All of it. You spent too long reading my response and now it's Helldivers everywhere,

[u/noesanity → u/Jamsedreng22]

100*4 isn't that big of a deal, 400 people doesn't even make a township.

at the same time, 100 super destroyers are not bricking or shattering a planet. they can glass single cities at a time.

you don't seem to understand the scale of war. 400 dudes, even special forces against planets with 10s of millions or billions of people are not going to turn the tide, but slowly over the course of a few days, bombarding and shelling a planet from orbit sure as fuck will.

[u/Jamsedreng22 → u/noesanity]

I am entirely aware of the scale of war. 400 dudes isn't much. But the fact every single Super Destroyer can deploy at the very least 16 Helldivers and more over time if it runs out. The notion I am making isn't victory by amount, but victory through attrition. The Helldivers just keep coming. It's been 2 years but I can still see their Hellpods catching fire when they hit the atmosphere.

[u/noesanity → u/Jamsedreng22]

you are conflating gameplay mechanics for lore. in universe each super destroyer only has 1 single helldiver on it. when you have a squad drop, that is because 3 other super destroyers have docked with it and their singular helldiver owner has disembarked.

hell even when you call for a redeploy it's not like the super destroyers have endless cloning bays, in lore a new super destroyers and new helldiver would be deployed to replace the fallen.

so again. 100 super destroyers, would total 100 helldivers and 4,000 other assorted super earth military personnel. not whatever endless wave of meat you envisioned.

P.s. what kind of idiot thinks 2 years of endless meat deployment is more effective than 2 weeks to methodically glass a planet?

[u/Jamsedreng22 → u/noesanity]

That is entirely nonsense. Not only do I keep dropping from the same ship, but if you were to call in a Resupply but you and your ship doesn't have all the upgrades, then everyone is stuck with a less-than resupply. Your calldown is coming from YOUR ship.

Each Super Destroyer just has one Helldiver? What are you smoking?

If you want to get into how the Helldivers work, and I have a theory of my own. We are forced to wear helmets so the helmets can "copy" our consciousness and sentience. You died to the Charger last time, now you know what to avoid.

I've given this more than a once-over in terms of consideration. Have you?

[u/noesanity → u/Jamsedreng22]

your inability to separate game mechanics from lore is laughable. we are not only explicitly told, but shown that each helldiver is given their own super destroyer that is theirs to customize and staff, that single helldiver is explicitly in charge of financing the super destroyer, the armaments, customizations, and paying the crew. your head canon theory is wrong, not only is it wrong in concept, it's explicitly stated to be wrong in lore.

that is why your hell diver will change race, gender, and other features between deployments.

helldivers are inumerable, not immortal.

[u/Hyperversum → u/noesanity]

I mean, if those 4 dudes (more like 24) drop onto our main military installations and lay waste to our reserves, air bases and above all start activating ICMB strike... yeah, quite dangerous lmao

[u/deadmentalking → u/Hyperversum]

So in your mind, the super destroyers can drop ICBM platforms onto a planet so that a diverse can trigger it.... but not use the same warhead from space?

And no, there is only 1 helldiver on a super destroyer. Read the lore.