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).

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by 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

I never realized how the Orc from Warhammer multiplied...i thought you know...they xaptured space Elves...

[nightingale2k1]

may be they have Overlord like in starcraft zerg. flying slowly

[Foxador]

Originally posted by Enforcer:

I never realized how the Orc from Warhammer multiplied...i thought you know...they xaptured space Elves...

All Orkoid races are symbiotic with species of fungus. In fact, all of them grow from the same spores - depending on conditions the same spore may grow to a mighty Warboss or a harmless fungi. In this way, Orkoids are not just a race, but a whole ecosystem in itself. When Orks invade new worlds, this ecosystem grows. It is widely known that once a world is invaded by Orks, it is never entirely free from them again. Ork spores grow in the wilderness, giving birth to a new forms of Orkoid life

[TieDyeShyGuy]

Ever notice how the farmers you find dead at settlements and points of interest seem to have bullet wounds and not whats expected to see from a bug attack

The gloom is the threat of how the bugs spread outside of our efforts to contain the epidemic of these threats to our peaceful way of life. Any rumors of manufactured incidents or implications that the 710 farms are mismanaged should be reported to your nearest Democracy Officer.

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[Funky Koval]

They produce a huge Orbital Fart

[Aethrys]

Originally posted by 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 ?

The most likely explanation is that terminid spores have some kind of FTL jump capability. They are the source of Super Earth's starship fuel, after all.

The accidental spore contamination thing seems plausible, but the bugs wouldn't advance in a more or less organized front line the way they do, they'd be popping up all over random planets like gene stealer cults spreading throughout the Imperium by hitching rides on random ships from a space station they've infiltrated. There would be bug outbreaks cropping up on the bot front.

[Yuuko do anime Nichijou]

DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE FAN THEORIES! THEY ARE NOT APPROVED BY THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH! IT'S BUG PROPAGANDA!

[Arizona Ranger]

Initially they spread mostly like cockroaches. Just hitching rides on whatever they could crawl into. The spores could be on people's clothing, inside shipping boxes, in nooks and crannies all over space ships. Now they seem to have cracked the code and are spreading via FTL capable spore cloud. In Starship Troopers the bugs use wormholes to travel, but here we have just the space spore cloud somehow doing FTL.

[🌠Deusgo]

Originally posted by Chaos:

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

They can survive on planets without atmospheres though

[Chaos]

Originally posted by Deusgo:

They can survive on planets without atmospheres though

That would meet one of the requirement, tho that was not I was wondering about.

What I'm thinking of is how do they traversed the planets since we never see any big flying bugs that act like spaceship/troop transport like with 40K or Starcraft version of bugs.

Tho The FLT spores theory from the others is quite plausible since it's the only thing of bugs that we see in the space and it would make the gloom a very interesting threat.

Now if only AH can do away with these filler "episodes" MO and give us more juicy story...

[Razer, Dat Bragon]

The spores affect the tiny bugs on said planet & said bugs mutate due to spores & now you have mutant bugs, the end.

[Razer, Dat Bragon]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Originally posted by Deusgo:

They can survive on planets without atmospheres though

That would meet one of the requirement, tho that was not I was wondering about.

What I'm thinking of is how do they traversed the planets since we never see any big flying bugs that act like spaceship/troop transport like with 40K or Starcraft version of bugs.

Tho The FLT spores theory from the others is quite plausible since it's the only thing of bugs that we see in the space and it would make the gloom a very interesting threat.

Now if only AH can do away with these filler "episodes" MO and give us more juicy story...

All I think of now is the Flood in Halo, "Hey we have back up, that's not back up...."

[HeyBooBear]

not too far from reality either. didnt they find out those micro space bear things can survive in space?

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Jackleg411:

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

So....Terminids are just weird Orks

[Monkey Punisher]

Originally posted by 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).

1# Idea - Eggs or spores are attached to hellpos/helldivers and then transported to another areas undetected (If you survive your helldiver remains cover in ♥♥♥♥ to another missions)

2# Idea - SuperEart "plant" them in new planets with the objetive to "liberate" the area afterwards (and if any disident is residing there... colateral damages...)

3# Idea - In the MOs description said more than once that the terminid "fighter-fleet" survived, so maybe they have some kind of mother-ship entity that can survive the void and carry their swarm with them.

For me the most believable options are 2# and 1#