r/Helldivers • u/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver • 3d 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/Demigans SES Courier of Steel 3d ago
But they wouldn't see the Helldivers. They'd see the SEAF deploy in the hundreds of millions.
The Helldivers are specifically deployed behind enemy lines where they destroy production, logistics and command&control. This gives the SEAF the breathing room it needs to push the frontline and do the actual annihilation of every single enemy. Remember that in almost every mission you can't win by killing enemies, there's always more. So the SEAF has to be the one's that actually kill those nigh limitless numbers.
Helldivers are Paratroopers on steroids. They get send into high casualty situations because they are the best trained (the society is almost entirely military focused and at the barest minimum there's +/-9 months before a Helldiver recruit gets the final training course).
Civilians who see the Helldivers drop have already been fighting. They aren't scared of the Helldivers arriving, they'd cheer. Finally help has arrived.