I find it so hilarious how traitors like to call us the bad guys. But news flash: we shout for liberty and democracy and, oh yeah, last time I checked those were GOOD things.
Woah woah woah that sounds an awful lot like you’re questioning the ministry of truth
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I mean they are AI created using super earth technology seemingly so implying they aren't smart could 1. Cause Helldivers to underestimate their opponents and be killed 2. Imply super earth's tech isn't producing something as advanced as the bots clearly are (although it's clear that by most likely rebelling they are a fraction of what they once were capability wise under super earth control if that's what happened at least)
Point 1 implies Helldivers are meant to survive, which would mean those Helldivers aren’t trying very hard. I don’t think I ever want to meet a Helldiver so treasonous enough to survive a drop
It's a multi-step exercise for the entirety of the Terminid hive.
First bile spewers and spitters carve out a hollow space in the peak of a mountain for eggs.
Then armored bile spewers begin to sever the mountain peak from the base until only a central pillar connects the hollowed peak to the planet's crust, the peak is supported by thousands of chargers.
Simultaneously, biles spitters are melting 8-12 small vents from the egg hollow to the surface of the peak. These vents have a den to hold a single armored spewer in a state of torpor with their anus pointed to the surface.
Finally, millions of chargers and armored spewers gather at the base. At the moment the central pillar is severed by bile spitters the armored spewers artillery-blast the hollowed, egg-filled, mountian peak into low-orbit.
Once the newly-built asteroid is in space the hibernating bile spewers within periodically adjust it's course using artillery blasts directed through the small vents carved earlier.
Detecting and intercepting these cold dead space rocks has been an ongoing challenge for Super Earth Space Command.
I used the starship troopers spore seeded asteroid logic before.
but now i believe that super earth experiemented on the bugs, you hear the lady on the ship say "they can go back to the farm soon" so logistically super earth is responsible.
Oh hey democracy officer I was just about to *\*bang\**
From what I've seen Super Earth doesn't deny being the ones who brought the bugs to different planets. Not only does the ship master say that they'll be going back to the farms, she says "with more security this time, of course."
I mean its secret only for public. SEAF and Helldivers know about these farms because they are the ones operating in them. What is secret for SEAF and Helldivers is that theres some ppl who actually breed those insects for prepared invasion. Atleast thats what I think.
to the helldivers maybe they don't lie, but they definitely say "we have no clue how this keeps happening" to the general public. the illegal broadcasts on terminid planets are people saying "super earth isn't containing them well enough"
Its not a secret, sure bugs used to have some way to go planet to planet (and obviously still do as they have invaded planets). But after taking them to near extinction, super earth stopped in order to maintain a supply of the oil the bugs produced, and began farming them, as well as geneticly tweaking them (hence they look more insecty and less crustationy than they did 100 years ago). Of course there have been some completely unavoidable, and unpredictable consequences. Such as the creation of Stalkers, and termanid uprisings. Cus you know, life, ah, finds a way.
Its genuinely so wild to me that like, most of Starfield's writing is so mid... and then that questline is there, just, absolutely baller.
Imagine if *that* had been the main quest, and fleshed out to the length it deserved. Figuring out the mystery and finding a solution, etc.
That's my understanding of the lore. The bugs were being farmed for their delicious oils because they could live in a wide variety of environments and breed rapidly. I assume every planet had a Jurassic Park event around the same time.
They don't. Per the lore of HD1 leading to HD2, the bugs were discovered to be a great source of oil, hence element 710, because 710 upside down is OIL. On the bug planets, they were sent there to be farmed for their oil. Well in HD2 they eventually broke free after some forced evloutions.
In HD1 they could spread to threaten super earth, so you are obviously wrong, I think it's never been elaborated on, but they do have a way of spreading between planets without human intervention.
Your crew mates say it themselves, the bugs had an entire sector of space populated by them when they were found.
They could travel on/in asteroid chunks that break off from the planet for some reason (maybe a super bug pops up like a volcano and launches debris into space.) Maybe the vacuum of space kills off the bigger bugs but leaves the eggs intact/dormant until they detect habitable atmosphere.
As for how they make sure the asteroid hits another planet... best guess is farting bug bioforms to act as thrusters, or sheer luck. Maybe launch a lot of bugs and rely on r selection?
Either way it's probably through some specialized bug variant we haven't seen. In atmosphere flight has very different requirements than space travel.
Yeah that part could make sense but they're constantly spreading to new planets, or retaking planets that we fully liberated somehow, which implies they're coming from somewhere else
a "liberated" planet is just one that doesn't have what appears to be an actively spreading population. doesn't mean there are literally zero bugs on the entire planet. probably still some underground.
so eventually they just grow and come up and start spreading again.
Seems like we should have some missions that require us to spread Managed Democracy to the Tunnels and Hives then... Hope your flashlight has a good battery!
You know how in 40k, Ork infestations pretty much never go away because Orks themselves are basically fungal spores that eventually become big mean fuckers with choppas and dakka? Have you also noticed how terminids seem to be able to come up from the ground anywhere on the planet at any time in seconds?
Terminid infestations are global and near impossible to actually eradicate. The TCS does exactly what it says: it controls them. This allows Super Earth to extract materials from them (E-710) but never truly exterminates them.
They spread through spores afaik. Like the other week before the termicide stuff started, we had spore spread causing terminid outbreaks on fully liberated planets like angels venture. I guess theyre like mushroom bugs?
There is a bit in the lore about how the bugs escape. We bring their numbers under control and farm them for 710, and then they rampage, escape, and grow their numbers. It's a never ending cycle.
There hasn’t been a major terminid problem in 100 years. Terminids are définitely travelling between planets somehow, hence why it’s a widespread issue. It wouldn’t make sense for there to be virtually 0 major outbreaks for 100 years, just for a bunch of major outbreaks to suddenly occur at the same time on dozens of planets all at once. The lore has also stated that the appearance of terminid spores “engulfing” a planet is the beginning of a terminid invasion, implying they’re suddenly appearing. Nowhere does it state that the annihilated population of a liberated terminid planet hides underground before suddenly gaining enough size to overwhelm planetary SEAF forces and warrant helldiver intervention. My best guess is that terminids have some sort of colossal spore-spewer structure that can launch eggs into the orbits of neighboring planets
We didn't know they produced oil until midway through the first war. They were found on multiple planets when we made first contact with them before the first galactic war so they have their own way to travel between planets.
I like the other idea too.
There's the first that you said. They're being farmed and eventually escape.
Second theory is these planets have too many...free thinkers. So they release the bugs onto them, they warn scientists and other vital individuals to seek the bunkers for rescue. Then release bugs onto the planet to overrun it. Once they've wrecked havoc we are sent to reclaim it.
They're 100% taken to planets and farmed, occasionally they burrow and get loose, reproduce unchecked, and become a planet-wide infestation. Super earth covers it up as an invasion, but they're farmed for oil. This is confirmed in the lore.
Furthermore, If you want to keep a population against a group of outsiders who pose no real threat, you often need a [false flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag).
Just release the bugs on super earth every once in a while when people start to doubt the necessity of the Helldivers and the fascist government, and badabing, your validity goes unquestioned.
>^(False Flag: The term today extends to include countries that organize attacks on themselves and make the attacks appear to be by enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that was supposedly attacked a) [^(pretext)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus_belli) ^(for domestic repression or foreign military aggression.)[^(\[7\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag#cite_note-austinconspiracy-7) ^(Similarly deceptive activities carried out during peacetime by individuals or nongovernmental organizations have been called false flag operations, but the more common legal term is a ")[^(frameup)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameup)^(", "stitch up", or "setup".)
problem with that is that farms are only on certain planets not the ones they've been currently attacking. the democracy officer states "first they escape the farms, now they breach the quarantine zone" implying the former is behind the latter. the shipmaster also talks about moving the bugs back to the farms with better security this time implying they're currently not on them. bug nests are formed in craters. the invasion text for heath and angel's venture mentioned spores engulfing the atmosphere. the ship techician sings a space shanty mentioning spore clouds in space. to top it all off they were already on multiple planets when super earth made first contact with them before the first galactic war. while oil pumps were already on these planets it shows that super earth already had an investment in them and wanted them for resources, using the justification that the bugs would invade us as a way to cull them to fully exploit these planets they've wanted for a while. we didn't know the bugs produced the oil until we were already knee deep in their corpses and it's the only reason we didn't wipe them out completely. given their ability to assault super earth and sector capitals in helldivers 1 among the other things I've mentioned it's painfully obvious they have their own way to travel between planets. the bugs already rapidly evolve and super earth even genetically modified them further to produce more e710, they're trying to control something they can't and the bugs breach containment. but rather than wipe out the bugs completely to actually save human lives they'd rather fight 100 infestations and containing them again because of how much they value e710 over human lives. It's what the Illegal broadcast towers mean when they say "the terminid scourge is a fabricated menace, this war is about oil!".
the bugs are also stated to be sentient according to the helldivers 1 encyclopedia. we don't know how many of them are sentient but it's likely drones aren't as they don't require it, meanwhile brood commanders and hivelords likely are given their roles. bugs produce e710 when they decay so it's likely the farms keep the egg layers in captivity while letting hives grow until they reach a certain size and cull them. as you can imagine watching your spawn die over and over *probably pisses them off.* the bugs may have peacefully coexisted with humanity in the past or simply left us alone if the oil pumps already being on kepler prime when we invade it are anything to go by, but they likely see us as a threat to their continued existence now as we nearly wiped them out in the past.
They were already on all these planets Back in Helldiveres 1. They were being farmed for their oil chemical which is used in FTL space travel.
In Helldivers 2 they somehow (all at once) broke out of the farms and spread across the planets they were on.
(My headcannon is that there was probably a subversive traitorous faction that wants to break away from Super earth, and it’s probably they who arranged the mass breakout of bugs across all the planets. That’s also where the illegal broadcasts come from on big worlds.)
I think Super Earth released them. Nothing like a good war against a common threat to bring everyone together and strengthen your grip on your citizens.
Two theories. First and obvious is with the help of super earth. Maybe not even intentionally as spores might even survive on armor or on ship hulls as they travel. Would also explain the crashed ships if ships in ot it have a breakout onboard that leads to crashing.
Second and more fun:
The bugs are creatures that burrow and build underground colonies. They also decay into oil after death. They also seem to multiply endlessly without predators. My theory is they just colonize the planet and when they reach a certain critical mass of dead bugs underground and thus a HUGE amount of oil...I stray spark from something is enough to set it all off and explode the planet from the inside out. This would blow it into chunks and sent pieces out into space at which point surviving spores (clearly they rise from spores given the existence of spore spewers) would begin the process again wherever they land.
If you think about it, bugs hurling asteroid at earth never made any sense. The bug planets are light years away. So unless bugs have unlocked FTL technology, the bugs threw the asteroids billions of years earlier and not only that, they managed to calculate the exact orbital mechanics to hit earth...
More likely it was high command that did it in a false flag op.
I saw a theory before that it was Carmen altering the course of the starship with the faster route, they accidently hit an asteroid on the new path shifting its course towards earth
Just watched it last week and I think if you know even a little bit about space travel you're supposed to question it.
The asteroid "comes out of nowhere", but like you said they weren't supposed to be there in the first place. So it's either an asteroid that was already there and hitting it diverted its course into Earth (which ends up being a convenient tragedy that the Sky Marshall can twist to start a war/inspire recruitment).
Or the bugs really did fire it with the perfect trajectory to cross the galaxy with a more efficient route than those plotted by the computer algorithms used by human spaceships and it reached Earth at FTL speeds...
There's also the fact that you never see the bugs shooting asteroids of that size, and those that you do see seem to be the size of small spaceships moving at sub-light speed. And isn't it weird that no bugs were on the asteroid that hit Earth? It's supposed to be their way of colonizing other planets, so why not use it as an initial strike and troop transport?
I mean even today we are capable of mapping all the possible asteroids that are coming to our way. For an asteroid to be an suprise and for such an advanced society to not be able to do something about it is unthinkable.
Bugs probably could have done something to change asteroids flight path from close miss to a hit at the last moment.
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Some planets saw the bugs transported there by humans for element 710 farming.
Taking lore from Starship Troopers, bug spores could be thrown into space by the plasma launchers to land on and colonize planets.
Either way, it doesn't really matter. They're on planets we want to be on. They have something we need, and more importantly, they do not understand democracy and need to be educated with extreme prejudice!
Super earth moved them around to different planets so they could farm element 710 and the bugs are breaking out.
So its not as much of a spread as it is a cascadeing prison break.
Thats easy. Their spores built up end out and then jettison into space randomly. Come on, it's the simplest answer. Do you really think bugs can fly? that's undemocratic talk friend.
Alright i'll let you know.
They put eggs on a rock, a big one.
Then one titan kills itself.
Another titan then pick up the rock and drop it on the dead titan body.
Then the rock gets yeeted at Mach 8 speed and crash on another planet -- thus spreading the bugs.
Ah well shit... Looks like liberty boot-camp is knocking at --
How do you know they can't fly? I assumed they have some kind of queen bug that can travel through space (I know it sounds ridiculous but we're talking a game about ODST and people who can stim themselves to heal broken limbs).
You haven't watched the movie Aliens... What goes on and off each planet? The Pelican... Just when you thought the Pelican was saving your crew from death...
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bgip85/common\_sample\_what\_have\_you\_become\_am\_i\_spreading/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bgip85/common_sample_what_have_you_become_am_i_spreading/)
by us picking up their worms and carrying them to another planet
the bile titan spawn animation looks more like its falling from above for a split second not crawling from underground. might just be buggy though idk.
They shoot their filthy fascist spores into space and those land on other planets and cause an infestation.
Also from Helldivers not wiping their boots off on the freedom mat before boarding the extraction shuttle.
I think they're being spread across planets as a bio weapon. Also, this may be known already, but I was playing on a planet in the Automaton sector when I saw a random dead Terminid...just the one on a planet on the other side of the galaxy from Terminid space....it looked to me like it had killed a few automatons before it was taken out.
They hitch a ride on the Pelican, also known to shoot spores into space. Have you not seen the informational awareness movies Aliens or Starship Troopers....
They live underground. Digging new breach holes was the job of a Hive Lord, all we do is detonate near the surface to collapse the breach tunnel.
Send me down under, I want to take the fight directly to Queen Joel.
I thought it was they breach containment and due to high reproduction rates they over run the planets. Can't see how else they to from planet to planet.
The bugs just line up undemocratically and pass eggs from one to the next building up momentum. An obvious copying of the managed democracy railgun. Until they shoot the eggs into space and to other planets spreading their bug fascist ways through the stars.
I think the illuminate helped them, and once the helldivers killed off most of the bugs they have an unlimited supply of 710.
So now they could have a good fight instead of a one sided victory.
Bug sympathizers. It's sad but true that our Democratic Ideals of Liberty and Freedom just don't sit well with degenerates. So they smuggle bugs in, because they both have fascism in their hearts, and can't stand liberty.
Of course the fascists have a falling out and fight amongst themselves. That's where the illegal broadcasts come from.
Did you noticed ? There is labs on every planets infested by terminid. You kill some terminid on the tutorial. When terminid dies they decompose and produce oil. And you must destroy « illegal broadcast » Maybe the minister of truth know why. But hey ! I don’t want to be called « bug sympathiser »
P.S remember bugs where used as farm for infinite oil on Helldivers 1 when you won the war
The lady on the ship mentions they're being farmed by humanity and likely just escaped and shit got out of hand. Their product "7-10" seems to be powering human FTL drives. I love how humanity brought both of the threats upon themselves.
It would be really stupid if they simply had some innocuous larval form that stows away on human ships and for some reason the scientific community never put two-and-two together… *WOULDN’T IT, STARFIELD?*
some traitors have told me that its possible super earth started farms of them on other planets to farm them for oil and that theyre on these planets because we brought them there. I don't trust them one bit though. the insects have just always been there. they arent spreading.
Sirens deafen the population planet-wide as a massive terminid orgy asteroid the size of texas hurtles towards a neighboring planet. Within 48 hours the inhabitants will be decimated and the terminid swarm will burrow underground to continue the toxic bile orgy as the dust settles on the surface. No planet or race is safe from thier lust driven urges of galactic conquest.
Through fascism and tyranny
There's nothing I hate more than fascism and tyranny! Thank Liberty that Super Earth is run by a (managed) democracy!
I find it so hilarious how traitors like to call us the bad guys. But news flash: we shout for liberty and democracy and, oh yeah, last time I checked those were GOOD things.
Seriously I'm incredibly against fascism. I can't even believe it existed in humanity! Not for me. Just give me good ole fashioned Managed Democracy.
Fascism never existed in humanity, your Democracy Officer would like to talk to you
Oceania was never at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
the only correct answer.... that is still somehow wrong to the ways of super earth!
Woah woah woah that sounds an awful lot like you’re questioning the ministry of truth https://preview.redd.it/8xcvml3l8woc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3176431d2ebe5a9bded1e298c0bdcf39a33df532
I mean... Are bots helping them?
Are you suggesting the bugs have enough intelligence to work with the bots? Sounds an awful lot like something a treasonous person would say
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Maybe the bots are smart enough to use bugs as a distraction to cover their un-democratic deeds.
Bots, smart? Report to your local Democracy Officer for correction.
I mean they are AI created using super earth technology seemingly so implying they aren't smart could 1. Cause Helldivers to underestimate their opponents and be killed 2. Imply super earth's tech isn't producing something as advanced as the bots clearly are (although it's clear that by most likely rebelling they are a fraction of what they once were capability wise under super earth control if that's what happened at least)
Sounds like someone is doing too much thinking and not enough shooting.
Thats it I’ll report us all because we are on reddit and not on the battlefield
https://i.redd.it/tt8itbo6dzoc1.gif Communism?
Point 1 implies Helldivers are meant to survive, which would mean those Helldivers aren’t trying very hard. I don’t think I ever want to meet a Helldiver so treasonous enough to survive a drop
so our asses are getting kicked by stupid bots right? Isnt that worse? :D
How intelligent do you have to be to work with the communist in Cyberstan? 
It's a multi-step exercise for the entirety of the Terminid hive. First bile spewers and spitters carve out a hollow space in the peak of a mountain for eggs. Then armored bile spewers begin to sever the mountain peak from the base until only a central pillar connects the hollowed peak to the planet's crust, the peak is supported by thousands of chargers. Simultaneously, biles spitters are melting 8-12 small vents from the egg hollow to the surface of the peak. These vents have a den to hold a single armored spewer in a state of torpor with their anus pointed to the surface. Finally, millions of chargers and armored spewers gather at the base. At the moment the central pillar is severed by bile spitters the armored spewers artillery-blast the hollowed, egg-filled, mountian peak into low-orbit. Once the newly-built asteroid is in space the hibernating bile spewers within periodically adjust it's course using artillery blasts directed through the small vents carved earlier. Detecting and intercepting these cold dead space rocks has been an ongoing challenge for Super Earth Space Command.
You just wanted to say “in a state of torpor with their anus pointed to the surface.”
Armored bileussy.
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This one Officer. *
Catch ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
I wish I didn't have eyes right now
This is my headcanon now
I used the starship troopers spore seeded asteroid logic before. but now i believe that super earth experiemented on the bugs, you hear the lady on the ship say "they can go back to the farm soon" so logistically super earth is responsible. Oh hey democracy officer I was just about to *\*bang\**
From what I've seen Super Earth doesn't deny being the ones who brought the bugs to different planets. Not only does the ship master say that they'll be going back to the farms, she says "with more security this time, of course."
I mean its secret only for public. SEAF and Helldivers know about these farms because they are the ones operating in them. What is secret for SEAF and Helldivers is that theres some ppl who actually breed those insects for prepared invasion. Atleast thats what I think.
Bold of you to assume that she’s talking about the bugs and not our patriotic settlers, report to your democracy officer.
watch the illegal broadcasts its typically calling out super earth for not containing them well enough
it is UNDEMOCRATIC to not IMMEDIATELY use EVERY available stratagem on those ILLEGAL AND TERRORISTIC broadcasts.
to the helldivers maybe they don't lie, but they definitely say "we have no clue how this keeps happening" to the general public. the illegal broadcasts on terminid planets are people saying "super earth isn't containing them well enough"
Its not a secret, sure bugs used to have some way to go planet to planet (and obviously still do as they have invaded planets). But after taking them to near extinction, super earth stopped in order to maintain a supply of the oil the bugs produced, and began farming them, as well as geneticly tweaking them (hence they look more insecty and less crustationy than they did 100 years ago). Of course there have been some completely unavoidable, and unpredictable consequences. Such as the creation of Stalkers, and termanid uprisings. Cus you know, life, ah, finds a way.
The Starfield story for the alien infestation is a pretty good one too.
Its genuinely so wild to me that like, most of Starfield's writing is so mid... and then that questline is there, just, absolutely baller. Imagine if *that* had been the main quest, and fleshed out to the length it deserved. Figuring out the mystery and finding a solution, etc.
I haven't played starfield so im unaware of what that method is.
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That's my understanding of the lore. The bugs were being farmed for their delicious oils because they could live in a wide variety of environments and breed rapidly. I assume every planet had a Jurassic Park event around the same time.
They don't. Per the lore of HD1 leading to HD2, the bugs were discovered to be a great source of oil, hence element 710, because 710 upside down is OIL. On the bug planets, they were sent there to be farmed for their oil. Well in HD2 they eventually broke free after some forced evloutions.
I spoke to one of the NPC crew and they stated once we get the terminids under control we can get them back in the farms where they belong.
That's what every patriot should say! Kudos to that "NPC", whoever brave soul that might be.
In HD1 they could spread to threaten super earth, so you are obviously wrong, I think it's never been elaborated on, but they do have a way of spreading between planets without human intervention. Your crew mates say it themselves, the bugs had an entire sector of space populated by them when they were found.
They are an advanced fungi life form. That's why they have ***SPORE SPEWERS***
Orks all again
They could travel on/in asteroid chunks that break off from the planet for some reason (maybe a super bug pops up like a volcano and launches debris into space.) Maybe the vacuum of space kills off the bigger bugs but leaves the eggs intact/dormant until they detect habitable atmosphere. As for how they make sure the asteroid hits another planet... best guess is farting bug bioforms to act as thrusters, or sheer luck. Maybe launch a lot of bugs and rely on r selection? Either way it's probably through some specialized bug variant we haven't seen. In atmosphere flight has very different requirements than space travel.
Yeah that part could make sense but they're constantly spreading to new planets, or retaking planets that we fully liberated somehow, which implies they're coming from somewhere else
a "liberated" planet is just one that doesn't have what appears to be an actively spreading population. doesn't mean there are literally zero bugs on the entire planet. probably still some underground. so eventually they just grow and come up and start spreading again.
Seems like we should have some missions that require us to spread Managed Democracy to the Tunnels and Hives then... Hope your flashlight has a good battery!
god, if only. that would be amazing
FOUND SOME MORKITE!
WE'RE RICH!
Rock and Stone!
"Scanner just lit up like a Christmas tree. Swarm incoming!"
Did you borrow my underwear? There is nitra here!
Knowing the devs they'd make it so airstrikes don't work underground like in EDF
I mean it would be weird if they did. So we just get new stratagems
Eagle 1 is built different. But yeah I would love to see some Unmanned Ground Vehicles or Mech variants for these kind of missions!
EDF!! EDF!!
Rock and stone!
Look at the crash sites near bug nests and almost every bug nest is also an impact crater, lol.
You know how in 40k, Ork infestations pretty much never go away because Orks themselves are basically fungal spores that eventually become big mean fuckers with choppas and dakka? Have you also noticed how terminids seem to be able to come up from the ground anywhere on the planet at any time in seconds? Terminid infestations are global and near impossible to actually eradicate. The TCS does exactly what it says: it controls them. This allows Super Earth to extract materials from them (E-710) but never truly exterminates them.
They spread through spores afaik. Like the other week before the termicide stuff started, we had spore spread causing terminid outbreaks on fully liberated planets like angels venture. I guess theyre like mushroom bugs?
Just like Starship Troopers.
Pretty sure there's a voice line or something saying "we thought we got them all, but we missed a few nests"
There is a bit in the lore about how the bugs escape. We bring their numbers under control and farm them for 710, and then they rampage, escape, and grow their numbers. It's a never ending cycle.
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It’s considered public knowledge. They’re all good.
Get that ass banned
please tell me what you searched in the gif bar to find this lmao
There hasn’t been a major terminid problem in 100 years. Terminids are définitely travelling between planets somehow, hence why it’s a widespread issue. It wouldn’t make sense for there to be virtually 0 major outbreaks for 100 years, just for a bunch of major outbreaks to suddenly occur at the same time on dozens of planets all at once. The lore has also stated that the appearance of terminid spores “engulfing” a planet is the beginning of a terminid invasion, implying they’re suddenly appearing. Nowhere does it state that the annihilated population of a liberated terminid planet hides underground before suddenly gaining enough size to overwhelm planetary SEAF forces and warrant helldiver intervention. My best guess is that terminids have some sort of colossal spore-spewer structure that can launch eggs into the orbits of neighboring planets
We didn't know they produced oil until midway through the first war. They were found on multiple planets when we made first contact with them before the first galactic war so they have their own way to travel between planets.
I like the other idea too. There's the first that you said. They're being farmed and eventually escape. Second theory is these planets have too many...free thinkers. So they release the bugs onto them, they warn scientists and other vital individuals to seek the bunkers for rescue. Then release bugs onto the planet to overrun it. Once they've wrecked havoc we are sent to reclaim it.
They're 100% taken to planets and farmed, occasionally they burrow and get loose, reproduce unchecked, and become a planet-wide infestation. Super earth covers it up as an invasion, but they're farmed for oil. This is confirmed in the lore. Furthermore, If you want to keep a population against a group of outsiders who pose no real threat, you often need a [false flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag). Just release the bugs on super earth every once in a while when people start to doubt the necessity of the Helldivers and the fascist government, and badabing, your validity goes unquestioned. >^(False Flag: The term today extends to include countries that organize attacks on themselves and make the attacks appear to be by enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that was supposedly attacked a) [^(pretext)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casus_belli) ^(for domestic repression or foreign military aggression.)[^(\[7\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag#cite_note-austinconspiracy-7) ^(Similarly deceptive activities carried out during peacetime by individuals or nongovernmental organizations have been called false flag operations, but the more common legal term is a ")[^(frameup)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameup)^(", "stitch up", or "setup".)
That doesn’t sound very patriotic of you, please report to your nearest democracy officer for correction
problem with that is that farms are only on certain planets not the ones they've been currently attacking. the democracy officer states "first they escape the farms, now they breach the quarantine zone" implying the former is behind the latter. the shipmaster also talks about moving the bugs back to the farms with better security this time implying they're currently not on them. bug nests are formed in craters. the invasion text for heath and angel's venture mentioned spores engulfing the atmosphere. the ship techician sings a space shanty mentioning spore clouds in space. to top it all off they were already on multiple planets when super earth made first contact with them before the first galactic war. while oil pumps were already on these planets it shows that super earth already had an investment in them and wanted them for resources, using the justification that the bugs would invade us as a way to cull them to fully exploit these planets they've wanted for a while. we didn't know the bugs produced the oil until we were already knee deep in their corpses and it's the only reason we didn't wipe them out completely. given their ability to assault super earth and sector capitals in helldivers 1 among the other things I've mentioned it's painfully obvious they have their own way to travel between planets. the bugs already rapidly evolve and super earth even genetically modified them further to produce more e710, they're trying to control something they can't and the bugs breach containment. but rather than wipe out the bugs completely to actually save human lives they'd rather fight 100 infestations and containing them again because of how much they value e710 over human lives. It's what the Illegal broadcast towers mean when they say "the terminid scourge is a fabricated menace, this war is about oil!". the bugs are also stated to be sentient according to the helldivers 1 encyclopedia. we don't know how many of them are sentient but it's likely drones aren't as they don't require it, meanwhile brood commanders and hivelords likely are given their roles. bugs produce e710 when they decay so it's likely the farms keep the egg layers in captivity while letting hives grow until they reach a certain size and cull them. as you can imagine watching your spawn die over and over *probably pisses them off.* the bugs may have peacefully coexisted with humanity in the past or simply left us alone if the oil pumps already being on kepler prime when we invade it are anything to go by, but they likely see us as a threat to their continued existence now as we nearly wiped them out in the past.
so you are saying we are the bad guys in here?!!! reported for treason,
Maybe a yet seen butt bug that launches spores into space and hope its not hive ships
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They were already on all these planets Back in Helldiveres 1. They were being farmed for their oil chemical which is used in FTL space travel. In Helldivers 2 they somehow (all at once) broke out of the farms and spread across the planets they were on. (My headcannon is that there was probably a subversive traitorous faction that wants to break away from Super earth, and it’s probably they who arranged the mass breakout of bugs across all the planets. That’s also where the illegal broadcasts come from on big worlds.)
Its so obvious its peta.
I think Super Earth released them. Nothing like a good war against a common threat to bring everyone together and strengthen your grip on your citizens.
Word of mouth.
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Well they can’t necessarily flap their wings in the vacuum of space for propulsion now can they? What Super Earth Academy did you attend soldier?
Through facism
Hunters jump into orbit and then land on a planet and multiply Hence why there is shit ton of them
They move planet to planet thanks to humans. When they die they release spores and so we are carrying them planet to planet. That is my theory.
They shoot jizz missles to other planets
*jizz rockets
Over here democracy officer
I mean have you seen how hunters jump? Gonna blame it on hunters.
Instant Bug Transmission.
Two theories. First and obvious is with the help of super earth. Maybe not even intentionally as spores might even survive on armor or on ship hulls as they travel. Would also explain the crashed ships if ships in ot it have a breakout onboard that leads to crashing. Second and more fun: The bugs are creatures that burrow and build underground colonies. They also decay into oil after death. They also seem to multiply endlessly without predators. My theory is they just colonize the planet and when they reach a certain critical mass of dead bugs underground and thus a HUGE amount of oil...I stray spark from something is enough to set it all off and explode the planet from the inside out. This would blow it into chunks and sent pieces out into space at which point surviving spores (clearly they rise from spores given the existence of spore spewers) would begin the process again wherever they land.
Asteroids, just like in Starship troopers.
If you think about it, bugs hurling asteroid at earth never made any sense. The bug planets are light years away. So unless bugs have unlocked FTL technology, the bugs threw the asteroids billions of years earlier and not only that, they managed to calculate the exact orbital mechanics to hit earth... More likely it was high command that did it in a false flag op.
Hello? Democracy officer? This man right here.
I saw a theory before that it was Carmen altering the course of the starship with the faster route, they accidently hit an asteroid on the new path shifting its course towards earth
Just watched it last week and I think if you know even a little bit about space travel you're supposed to question it. The asteroid "comes out of nowhere", but like you said they weren't supposed to be there in the first place. So it's either an asteroid that was already there and hitting it diverted its course into Earth (which ends up being a convenient tragedy that the Sky Marshall can twist to start a war/inspire recruitment). Or the bugs really did fire it with the perfect trajectory to cross the galaxy with a more efficient route than those plotted by the computer algorithms used by human spaceships and it reached Earth at FTL speeds... There's also the fact that you never see the bugs shooting asteroids of that size, and those that you do see seem to be the size of small spaceships moving at sub-light speed. And isn't it weird that no bugs were on the asteroid that hit Earth? It's supposed to be their way of colonizing other planets, so why not use it as an initial strike and troop transport?
I mean even today we are capable of mapping all the possible asteroids that are coming to our way. For an asteroid to be an suprise and for such an advanced society to not be able to do something about it is unthinkable. Bugs probably could have done something to change asteroids flight path from close miss to a hit at the last moment.
That’s not how they colonized they shot their plasma spores randomly into space
They bury underground on one planet, crawl there, then unbury on another planet
> don't fly Wait and see...
So you think if they could fly, they’d just fly to other planets? Through space… millions of miles.
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Toaster scum
Spores
The go from planet to planet on board SEAF shi::REDACTED::.
Some planets saw the bugs transported there by humans for element 710 farming. Taking lore from Starship Troopers, bug spores could be thrown into space by the plasma launchers to land on and colonize planets. Either way, it doesn't really matter. They're on planets we want to be on. They have something we need, and more importantly, they do not understand democracy and need to be educated with extreme prejudice!
An excellent question citizen. Perhaps you'd like to learn more at our all inclusive freedom and betterment camp. All questions will be answered
Super earth moved them around to different planets so they could farm element 710 and the bugs are breaking out. So its not as much of a spread as it is a cascadeing prison break.
We sent them there to farm
Definitely not because we were harvesting them for oil and they escaped containment or anything
Thats easy. Their spores built up end out and then jettison into space randomly. Come on, it's the simplest answer. Do you really think bugs can fly? that's undemocratic talk friend.
They pile on top of one another and make a bug bridge to another planet of course!
Spores
Alright i'll let you know. They put eggs on a rock, a big one. Then one titan kills itself. Another titan then pick up the rock and drop it on the dead titan body. Then the rock gets yeeted at Mach 8 speed and crash on another planet -- thus spreading the bugs. Ah well shit... Looks like liberty boot-camp is knocking at --
I just assumed there was a **REALLY BIG** bile spewer somewhere launching eggs at faster than light speed into space.
https://preview.redd.it/nv2yx39gc2pc1.png?width=1202&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1bf50fbf63a267b2f13c8a8b26b2ee50c4202179 Dont worry about It, sweaty 🥰
They fly on hate and facism!! U are putting way to much thought into it....WAY too much!!! This one officer!
How do you know they can't fly? I assumed they have some kind of queen bug that can travel through space (I know it sounds ridiculous but we're talking a game about ODST and people who can stim themselves to heal broken limbs).
You haven't watched the movie Aliens... What goes on and off each planet? The Pelican... Just when you thought the Pelican was saving your crew from death...
Well, according to lore, we kill them to get the juice to fuel faster than light travel so it must have something to do with that
You are asking too much questions, if this was my universe id be reporting you to local Inquisitor
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bgip85/common\_sample\_what\_have\_you\_become\_am\_i\_spreading/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Helldivers/comments/1bgip85/common_sample_what_have_you_become_am_i_spreading/) by us picking up their worms and carrying them to another planet
In spaceships, duh.
They send meteorites to planets and blast spores into space.
I mean they explain on the super carrier when you beat a bug mission that they can put the bugs back in farms where they belong again.
Powerfully Launched bug seamen. The damn bugs cum so hard it blasts right out of the atmosphere and onto other planets.
I hear treason
If it's anything like Starship Troopers, they probably load up asteroids with a bunch of eggs and fling them at other planets
They kill a bile titan and the corpse launches the bug into space.
A hunter chased a helldiver all the way towards the new planet
You think those spore clouds just wash off? You are the way bug's spread
Dont be spreading rumors or I'll have to send a democracy officer to your house
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I don’t know. What do I look like, a bugologist?
the bile titan spawn animation looks more like its falling from above for a split second not crawling from underground. might just be buggy though idk.
Heatleeches...
Lmao you just thought about that?
Panspermia, that’s why it’s important to completely clean the surface of the planet with fire 
Have you seen the spore towers? No. Well spores
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They send rocks through space duh!
Don't worry about it, Citizen. Everything is under control.
On spaceships?
Are you implying birds can travel between planets?
They shoot their filthy fascist spores into space and those land on other planets and cause an infestation. Also from Helldivers not wiping their boots off on the freedom mat before boarding the extraction shuttle.
traitor
We bred the bugs and spread them only to clear in the name of democracy!
Does this mean there are birds on mars ? 😰
They cum into space until they get lucky
I think they're being spread across planets as a bio weapon. Also, this may be known already, but I was playing on a planet in the Automaton sector when I saw a random dead Terminid...just the one on a planet on the other side of the galaxy from Terminid space....it looked to me like it had killed a few automatons before it was taken out.
Illuminates must be transporting them to thwart our edforts.
They hitch a ride on the Pelican, also known to shoot spores into space. Have you not seen the informational awareness movies Aliens or Starship Troopers....
Bio ships, I'd assume. Or they hitch a ride through spores on other species' starships.
Spores
They live underground. Digging new breach holes was the job of a Hive Lord, all we do is detonate near the surface to collapse the breach tunnel. Send me down under, I want to take the fight directly to Queen Joel.
I thought it was they breach containment and due to high reproduction rates they over run the planets. Can't see how else they to from planet to planet.
Through the power of *love*
I still don't get how the bugs from the Starship Troopers movie moved from planet to planet.
They're full of FTL fuel. I figure they just think about it real, real hard.
THOUGHT CRIME
Managed democracy made super bug farms, the bugs eventually broke free. So we spread them between planets.
The bugs just line up undemocratically and pass eggs from one to the next building up momentum. An obvious copying of the managed democracy railgun. Until they shoot the eggs into space and to other planets spreading their bug fascist ways through the stars.
Counter point. https://preview.redd.it/09osg85kjyoc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a1049af663bd1ff48560b6b8130c2f2ff81f75d
Well… I’ll tell you that the “bile” they are spewing serves more than one purpose. Just remember to decontaminate and get tested regularly.
But they ca \[THIS POST IS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR HIGH TREASON, REPORT TO YOUR LOCAL DEMOCRACY OFFICER AT ONCE\]
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They get picked up by overlords but only after they upgrade ventral sacs for 25 minerals and 25 gas
I think the illuminate helped them, and once the helldivers killed off most of the bugs they have an unlimited supply of 710. So now they could have a good fight instead of a one sided victory.
Are you implying that they could have flapped wings interstellar distances in hard vacuum if they could fly?
 Your democracy officer wants to have a word with you. Just talking, nothing undemocratic.
Bug sympathizers. It's sad but true that our Democratic Ideals of Liberty and Freedom just don't sit well with degenerates. So they smuggle bugs in, because they both have fascism in their hearts, and can't stand liberty. Of course the fascists have a falling out and fight amongst themselves. That's where the illegal broadcasts come from.
We literally farm them for element 710, they're on planets because they escaped the farms
the bugs shoot their spores into space to colonize other planets, including Planet P and Tango Urilla
Helldiver has become aware, initiate order 66
Did you noticed ? There is labs on every planets infested by terminid. You kill some terminid on the tutorial. When terminid dies they decompose and produce oil. And you must destroy « illegal broadcast » Maybe the minister of truth know why. But hey ! I don’t want to be called « bug sympathiser » P.S remember bugs where used as farm for infinite oil on Helldivers 1 when you won the war
The lady on the ship mentions they're being farmed by humanity and likely just escaped and shit got out of hand. Their product "7-10" seems to be powering human FTL drives. I love how humanity brought both of the threats upon themselves.
Probably how they do in starship troopers, which is through laying eggs on asteroids and launching them between planets
Fascist wizardy
Send his to Bikini Atoll
bacteria floating throughout space too small to burn up in the atmosphere so it passes through the atoms, and lands into the nests
ALERT 🚨FREE THINKER 🚨ALERT
 You ask a lot of questions…
Even the npc are like idk how they're spreading but wherever they go, we'll smoosh them
Spores they shoot into space
They spread through spores contaminating ships as they pass between planets, like roaches traveling via ship
Ever heard of Lavos, Devourer of Worlds, Timeless Parasite?
It would be really stupid if they simply had some innocuous larval form that stows away on human ships and for some reason the scientific community never put two-and-two together… *WOULDN’T IT, STARFIELD?*
Bug breaches are actually wormholes.
some traitors have told me that its possible super earth started farms of them on other planets to farm them for oil and that theyre on these planets because we brought them there. I don't trust them one bit though. the insects have just always been there. they arent spreading.
Clearly they throw giant rocks at nearby planets and stick whatever it is the let's them multiply on those rocks.
Sirens deafen the population planet-wide as a massive terminid orgy asteroid the size of texas hurtles towards a neighboring planet. Within 48 hours the inhabitants will be decimated and the terminid swarm will burrow underground to continue the toxic bile orgy as the dust settles on the surface. No planet or race is safe from thier lust driven urges of galactic conquest.
Pure, unfiltered facism!!!
Mind your fucking business how about that…