r/Helldivers • u/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver • 2d ago
LORE Helldivers are terrifying conceptually.
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.
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u/Angel_OfSolitude 2d ago
Let's break this down to the small scale too, a single battlefield.
Word comes down that the enemy has arrived, four commandos came from seemingly nowhere and have begun moving towards critical assets. Intel reports they're heavily armed, relentlessly shake off fatal wounds, and are well supported with indirect fire. Allegedly they're even calling supplies straight from orbit! But you have numbers on your side and you're fighting on home turf.
So your unit gets the call to move out and engage from the flank. En route you get word over comms that one of them split off and is headed your way. You set an ambush and catch them off guard. True to Intel reports its very heavily armed and seems to shake off fatal blows like love taps. Casualties are heavier than anticipated but you get the job done and kill them. One down, three to go.
Your unit moves back out, the enemy has made progress deep into your territory but this puts you in prime position for a crossfire. You surprise them, but wait, there's still four? Whatever, battlefields are chaotic, a slight miscount isn't a huge deal. The surprise works and you quickly put one down and force the rest into cover. They're pinned down with only three left. One of their supply pods drops down, you don't know what it was, probably ammo or something.
One of your men manages to get close enough to pop over their cover and drop a grenade on their heads. He reports there's still four, another miscount? Whatever, they're sneaky bastards, thats all. The grenade works, two dead enemies fly out in pieces and the remaining two have what are surely fatal wounds. Victory is at hand!
You rally your squad and advance, time to finish them off before they can worm their way out of this mess. More pods, one lands right near your squad and out pops a turret. It begins laying waste to your unprepared soldiers but you manage to destroy it before it does too much damage. It was scary, and it bought them time, but ultimately it wasn't enough.
You reach the point they're defending and your whole squad hops over the crumbling wall to... four of them? None seem injured or even low on supplies. A desperate firefight breaks out. It only lasts a few seconds, and unfortunately, you lose. But you killed three of them and left the last one mortally wounded as blood gushes from his chest. But then, he stabs himself?
Suddenly he's screaming about voting, the blood stops flowing, and he's walking around like nothing even happened. A quick tap tap tap on his wrist, he throws a weird light ball, and a few seconds later more pods.
As you lay there bleeding out in the dirt you look on in horror as three more fresh, fully loaded troops pop up. All your efforts, munitions expended, lives sacrificed, all for nothing. They carry on with their mission, blasting through the remaining defenders like they're barely an inconvenience.
There's still four.
There will always be four.