
Personally I think if super earth was gone and the faction now have to fight each other. It would end in a deadlock
this is just speculation and isn’t concrete. but I feel like these factions would counter each other like rock paper scissors.
illuminates > automatons: because they can easily flank their defenses and have better technology.
terminids > illuminates:the terminids have the gloom making them uncontrollable for the illuminates. They also outnumber them with better troops since I think a warrior can beat 10 voteless and they appear almost as often as them.
automatons> terminids: they can possibly resist the gloom and have the incineration corps that is capable of getting rid of so many bugs and have so much fire power that it can take out big units like bile titans or impalers reliably. Plus they are able to life on planets that the bugs can’t go to.
After a long time I think they would start evolving to fight back against their counters, the illuminates develop technology that block off the gloom from spreading and developing their own weapons good against crowds.
Terminids would develop a faction that’s more like a mantis shrimp, who are suppose to smash through armor rather than tear down flesh.
automatons would develop something that can track potential warp movement and would try to copy the illuminate technology.
some of these reasoning are kinda reaching just to make it seem like a faction can possibly counter another. but I feel like this is a interesting scenario on a what if these factions fought each other.
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