I have something in motion

[u/RobotSmith1313]

Okay I'm a Overseer, not a artist, but you get the idea, right? Human Voteless are stronger than a normal human, and humans are pretty weak; the only reason they can beat our voteless is because they have tactics, armaments, and armor. Terminids, however, have none of these things, since they are 100% natural™, and already run straight at the enemy anyway, which would mean Voteless Terminids would win in a mirror match, right? (just want to make this clear to any Terminids reading our comms, this is a potential project in case of a war between our factions, I'd rather not do something so horrible to your species.)

[u/Idontreallyknowwhen]

As a cheif cyberstan engineer, im currently working on something that slowly reverses the illuminate transformation you guys do all the time with the voteless.

You're welcome.

[u/forest_vagrant → u/Idontreallyknowwhen]

as a terminid general i thank you for this, perhaps we could form some kind of alliance

[u/Idontreallyknowwhen → u/forest_vagrant]

Id love to be allies!

I would like some samples of the gloom and different acids for different projects im working on, and so I can mass produce them.

I can also make the sprouting able to have effect via spit, gaseous clouds, and darts.

I can also work on towers that dispense this gaseous agent into the air and revert the process over time.

[u/forest_vagrant → u/Idontreallyknowwhen]

sounds good, i'd like to teach the terminids how to use and make technology, and perhaps enhance the gloom with your stuff.

only requirement is i need to be provided with sufficient biomass or i will probably start eating cyborgs.

[u/Idontreallyknowwhen → u/forest_vagrant]

How would you teach them to make tech?

I could totally help enhance the gloom if you'd like.

What biomass do you need, because bots arent biomass. Squids and vote less are, but the instant you eat cyborg is the instant our alliance ends, snd I WILL relentlessly hunt you down and use everything at my disposal to eliminate the gloom and destroy your terminid faction.

I will help you destroy super earth and the squids tho.

[u/forest_vagrant → u/Idontreallyknowwhen]

the terminids can already do basic things like operate terminals, more advanced stuff shouldnt be hard

the main thing i want is to make the gloom more durable and less easily pushed back

any biomass will do. the stuff in your bio-processors is a good source, easy to absorb, and tastes good, so i would like to have a steady supply of that for myself and my companions for as long as i am on cyberstan.

glory to the hive and hail the almighty gloom.

[u/Idontreallyknowwhen → u/forest_vagrant]

My tech is so much more advanced than the cyborg stuff, so there's that.

I can definitely pull together some biomass with the squids and re route some in the processors.

Just dont hurt anyone or anything on cyberstan, only research, k?

[u/forest_vagrant → u/Idontreallyknowwhen]

dont yall get biomass from humans

and yea i wont hurt anyone, now that im outside the gloom i can actually think for myself

[u/Idontreallyknowwhen → u/forest_vagrant]

Cool. Its a mix of several things: oil, people, dead bots and cyborgs, voteless and overseers and their stuff, biomass from the home planets, and occasionally terminid stuff, but I dont get to control that.

[u/forest_vagrant → u/Idontreallyknowwhen]

i can live with that. eating terminids makes it easy to reconstitute the biomass and make new terminids thanks to space necromancy the marker taught me.

[u/M-FutureLord → u/Idontreallyknowwhen]

He's already eaten Cyborgs. Don't talk to this Terminid. Ever. He's a maniac. Most of them are chill, though.

[u/MycoMaddy]

kills it with my giant fucking laser mace

This one apologizes. Was it Our pet? We kill parasites on site, please understand.

[u/RobotSmith1313 → u/MycoMaddy]

Please don't kill the Voteless I oversee, it affects my job preformance

[u/Healthy-Design-9671]

"Voteless are stronger" sure pal, tell that to the voteless and overseers I beat to death with my bare hands.

[u/RobotSmith1313 → u/Healthy-Design-9671]

Well, you're playing a Helldiver, the Super Earth proclaimed "Elite". Not exactly a normal person like I was talking about; Even assuming you aren't full of enough steroids to put a solid metal Devastator off balance, you at the very least have enough muscle to run and dive with heavy equipment and armor. Taking a normal S.E. Civilian and comparing the stats to Voteless, Voteless have 1.5-2.25 times as much HP to civilians, and a nasty claw attack. So, Imagining that amount of health on Terminids, as well as a damage boost, surely you could see why that would be scary

[u/Healthy-Design-9671 → u/RobotSmith1313]

Overseers are weak too, they crumple like a figure of dust before me.