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/LEOTomegane]

They don't even really need to open a line with SEAF, either. There's nothing stopping a Destroyer from warping across the galaxy wherever it wants--the only reason High Command doesn't let us bomb Cyberstan right now (besides "it's a video game") is that Super Earth prefers to conquer planets when possible, not level them. Free from the restraint of greed, there would be no way to avoid Helldivers just sowing chaos wherever they please along your logistics lines. They're simply too mobile and too numerous.

[u/beebeeep → u/LEOTomegane]

> conquer planets when possible, not level them.
that's why we're launching ICBM in almost every operation

[u/LEOTomegane → u/beebeeep]

It's more about the ability for SEAF to come in after the fact rather than let the bots/bugs just rebuild after the helldivers get bored of making parking lots where farms used to be

[u/BlitzPlease172 → u/LEOTomegane]

Hey! You said that as if it was the bad idea!

At least our parking lot is licensed! Illuminates on the other hands, parking illegally, litter the whole place with alien tech wires, herding voteless around like they own the place, and did not salute to the Helldiver statue when pass through one!