how do the terminids travel space?

[BEAST_J03]

I know this is dumb but i haven't played the first one and i was wondering what the lore is for them reaching other planets? i love when sci-fi writers make cool ways for the flesh monstrosities to reach across space (like the tyranid ships from warhammer or the flood just taking ships).

[Dracon]

Maybe asteroid spores like the Bugs from Starship Troopers?

[Athena]

Fan theory is that they're not a threat at all. That Super Earth has been shipping them to places for nefarious means.

I'd like to think that they don't fly. They're just always there and just recently popping up. Millions of years of Panspermia in action.

[#JuicyStick#]

They squirt their bug juice into space

[tophiphi]

they are shipped to planets to produce oil for ships of liberty

[abcd]

TCM builds wormholes for them, underground.

[BEAST_J03]

Originally posted by tophiphi:

they are shipped to planets to produce oil for ships of liberty

wait their getting farmed? that's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and i love it

[ケツデカピングー]

SUPER EARTH HELPPED THEM
imagine chicken, pigs and cows having riot.

[Jackleg411]

It's called "The Gloom". It is an interstellar spore cloud that essentially is spreading through system to system

[LoveTruffle]

My guess was they send spores into space, the spores fall onto a planet and begin to terraform the surface and hatching scavengers who start digging tunnels for larger more protected subterranean nests.

[Silly frog]

Yeah its spores. Thats why planets near gloom get attacked so much, because its producing so many spores

[Illumina]

Just pretend there's nothing wrong with spores traveling dozens of lightyears to land on specific planets in the span of days and keep diving.

[Foxador]

Spores and I like to think of them kinda like the Orcs from Warhammer. Once they get on a planet they just keep coming back over and over again cause they infest the place

[Chaos]

How indeed.
Unlike starcraft or 40k, these bugs doesn't seem space capable.

[Trig_Zero]

the lore of the game be like
Terminite blood can be refined into oil for FTL jumps for space travel
a must for the deployment of helldivers
so keep farming > keep fighting > endless loop of money
there're ppl lsay when a planet has an outbreak
it was caused by buglovers and released the bug farms
hence even the bugs have propaganda on those side ops

[Immanis]

When the narrative around the gloom finally start moving again maybe we will have some more answers.

I don't know how they release so much spore that can move that fast between planets that could be light years apart for all we know, but I certainly want to know.

My headcanon is that Super-Earth is moving the spore around. Atmosphere of bug planets is full of spores, helldivers will come back to ship full of blood and grime so they probably bring the spores back, Eagle going in and out multiple time per mission, pelican get full of spores, destroyer's bay get full of spores, destroyer getting into low altitudes could also carry spores...

(atmospheres doesn't magically stop at the Karman line and destroyers goes quite low to be this big in the sky... It hover at about 1080m/3500ft above surface in fact, suggested by the Orbital Precision Strike's call-in time and projectile speed)

But apparently culling down Terminids slowed down the gloom, so, more terminid = more spores, less terminids = less spores ?