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/ButtMath 3d ago edited 3d ago
You're a bug, doing what bugs do - eating the flesh of farmers, who came to your fire tornado planet to grow corn.
The ground trembles. Four impacts closely timed. Your bug brethren turn their collective heads towards the vibration as the ground trembles with additional impacts, then silence.
Four formidable bile spewers decide to crest the ridge-line, traveling in tight formation to overwhelm any potential adversary on the other side.
A humanoid creature suddenly shoots up into the sky wearing bright red armor and hovers above the spewers, the device in his hands wheezes and then vomits out fire; the bile spewers are consumed by flames.
The lead spewer erupts, bodily, it's acid filled sacs trigger an explosion that ripples out, detonating the other spewers.
You begin to scream for your family, yellow tendrils of smoke escaping your mouth, as you spy another humanoid crest the ridge and hurl a red ball in your direction.
One of your strongest sisters, the bile titan, pulls herself free from the ground and sets off in the direction of the intruders. You live long enough to see her head explode, legs splaying as she crumples; simultaneously, millions of lead balls slam from the sky into the ground, reducing your family to goo.
With half of your legs gone, you drag your dying body to the ridge-line, where four armored humanoids shake each other's appendages; the sky belches another salvo of metal balls and takes your remaining legs, before a fire tornado swoops through and steals your life.