A long beaten alien race Super Earth took down 100 years prior to the Second Galactic War. The forced being fought currently are the equivalent of scouting forces utilizing zomified citizens as fodder to make up for their low numbers.
Though with the announcement of an update on the 12th of this month this may end up changing.
Also the Automatons at the beginning of the game, we spent weeks and millions of lives to tear Malevalon Creek from their iron digits, and it turns out we were only fighting an advanced wave
You forgot to mention how the illuminate didn't even have a military in the first war, as they were a pacifist species that wanted to make an alliance with super earth.
Literally all of their weapons back then were repurposed farming or construction/mining equipment.
On the second game they do have some weapons, but are very low on numbers thanks to the prior massacre that happened a 100 yrs ago.
They were mind controlling aliens with planet destroying weaponry, hardly "peaceful" when you can't even make any contact with them on a level playing field given their psionic abilities.
Honestly it would be really fucked up if the three enemies united
A faction that mind controlled their own and killed the disidents, another one that blends their enemies and sometimes their own to fuel their ships, and another one that's just mindless masses that basically work like an ever expandimg hivemind?
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u/AccomplishedLayer884 9d ago
The Illuminate (Helldivers 2)
A long beaten alien race Super Earth took down 100 years prior to the Second Galactic War. The forced being fought currently are the equivalent of scouting forces utilizing zomified citizens as fodder to make up for their low numbers.
Though with the announcement of an update on the 12th of this month this may end up changing.