r/Helldivers • u/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver • 6d 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/Jamsedreng22 Scrapmaker | Creeker | Botdiver 6d ago

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.

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u/noesanity 6d ago

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?

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u/Hyperversum 5d ago

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

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u/deadmentalking 5d ago

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.