#helldivers terminids

[helldiver-lady-of-the-star]

Ma Helldivers 2 ocs

Alistair & Skree

Abyssal, Xel’Los, & Enoch (their son)

Alvar, Asani, & Oce’Hia

Ander Borris Talib

Lilith (Asani’s Wife)

[indie-idle]

FOR SUPER EARTH!!!

[crispy-bonnie]

two drawings of myself using select palettes; limited to only the colors on said palette

left side; my human-terminid oc, nyx (it's not a chibi drawing this time. the character is 7)

right side; direct observation piece of a helldiver for college. made with prismacolor pencils

[nebula1734]

I propose we create a 5th category of Helldiver: Gloom Divers.

For those of you who are not familiar, in Helldivers 2, when the game launched, there were two factions players could fight: terminids (bugs) and automotons (bots). Each presented different challenges and required different play styles, resulting in “bot divers” and “bug divers”. There were also “major order divers”, who were the players who mainly followed major orders. When the Illuminate (squids) arrived, we got “squid divers.”

Now you might be thinking, “the Gloom is part of the bug front. Shouldn’t people fighting in the Gloom just be consider bug divers?” To those people I say, have you fought in the Gloom? Have you seen Hive Lords? Have you encountered the dragons? This shit is above and beyond anything we’ve fought before. Not to mention the fact that you can’t call in support while you’re in the tunnels!

The people willingly diving in the Gloom are a different breed and deserve recognition for insanity. Therefore: Gloom divers.

[edith-the-autist]

Yall, I’ve been super curious as to the biology of the terminids. I just love em, something about the stalkers make them look like bug cats.

But, are they even bugs? As in, insects?

Obviously they wouldn’t fit into any known species, but I bet we can at least determine what would be new. Please keep in mind that I am neither biologist nor Helldivers expert, and if I get anything wrong, feel free to correct me.

I thought the best way to identify them would be by standard taxonomy, to see how far down the list I could get. https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Animalia/classification/#Animalia had a nice tool to help with this.

So, the taxonomy of the terminids, as best I can figure:

-Animalia, they’re ambulatory and intelligent enough for basic tactics and communication. There is mention of them spreading by spore, but that could easily be mislabeling. By the rules of reality as WE, MODERN HUMANS KNOW THEM, they are animals. There is a chance they outright don’t fit this system, but that’s lame.

-Eumetazoa, they aren’t sponges. Going forward, I won’t even mention why I didn’t select sponges or coral; terminids cannot be either, because they are ambulatory. There is a chance they are a super colony of microorganisms, but I would be shocked.

-Bilateria, as they are not parasitic(I’m pretty sure) nor are they flat by any definition. I also do not believe they are jellyfish, as they seem to be intelligent and more complex.

-Dueterostomia, by process of elimination. As of yet, we do not know if their anus forms before or after their mouth, but that seems to fit it best. However, there is a very real chance that they are related to lobsters. I do not know.

-Echinodermata. They aren’t acorn worms. Per my in-game observations, they do not have spines, and therefore cannot be Chordates.

The taxonomy stops here, as they do not seem to be part of any class inside echinodermata. If you don’t know, that includes things like sea stars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. Not even close, and probably wrong.

I don’t know where I went wrong. Somebody smarter than I could probably do better, but this took like an hour so I’m moving on.

The most reasonable conclusion, based on my research, is that they are related to lobsters. They have many superficial similarities, such as the claws, shells, and mandibles. I’m willing to bet that I was wrong to classify them as Dueterostomia, as I’m very confident in my prior selections.

Perhaps the taxonomic approach is also faulty, somehow. Maybe even the website I was using. Oh well, it’s still a fun headcanon

To answer the original question: they are not insects.

[calypsos-cavalry]

ILLUMINATE FRONT BATTLE RECORD

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Calypso: WON [MO: Stop 7 invasions from the Illuminate]

Genesis LOST (No territory claim)

Mog LOST (No territory claim)

Bellatrix WON

Kerth Secundus WON

Valmox WON

New Stockholm NO INVASION

Andar WON

Acubens Prime LOST (No territory claim)

Hadar WON

Gemma LOST (No territory claim)

Archernar Secundus WON

Skaash WON [MO: WON]

Bashyr LOST (No territory claim) [MO: Hold FENRIR III, ERATA PRIME]

Elysian Meadows LOST (No territory claim)

Asperoth Prime LOST (No territory claim)

Osupsam LOST (No territory claim)

Baldrick Prime LOST (No territory claim)

Hydrobius LOST (No territory claim)

Seasse LOST (No territory claim)

Hesoe Prime LOST (No territory claim) [MO: WON] [MO: Hold SUPER EARTH]

Rasp LOST (No territory claim)

Myrium LOST (No territory claim)

Canopus LOST (No territory claim)

Keid LOST (No territory claim)

Julheim LOST (No territory claim) [MO: WON] [MO: Kill 115,000,000 Voteless, Kill 7,000,000 Harvesters, defend against 8 Invasion]

Gemma LOST (No territory claim)

Volterra WON

Iro WON

Liberty Ridge Active

NON ILLUMINATE BUT RELATED BATTLES

Fenrir III LOST (Territory claim: Terminid) Liberated

Erata Prime LOST (Territory claim: Terminid) Liberated

Shelt Liberated (From Automatons)

[quixoria]

First time on a bug world wish me and my entomophobia luck

[fullycustomizable]

so you’re telling me, that the illuminates, that havnt been seen for a hundred fucking years, have head multiple sightings of the observers looking around?! like motherfucker i love that helldivers just adds shit and lets theplayers decide and then makes Super Earth gaslight them into thinking they dont exist like when chrome automatons started appearing and the ministry of truth wanted to cover it up. also ive seen a bunch of people play automaton fronts and seeing a dead terminid on the ground or playing a terminid front and seeing a dead automaton. back to the illuminates, other people have died because of blue lasers that the ministry of truth is trying to gaslight us out of thinking it. so im just thinking. how long have the illuminates been back?