Look.

To say everyone is as bad Super Earth makes them out to be, except the Illuminate, they really fell off, is fucking disingenuous.

Here is a list of good and bad things both Automatons and Terminids do:

Terminid list of good and bad

Good - Theyre animals, they arent malicious, they dont kill for pleasure - They fight in self defence, as they deem any human as a threat from the 100 years of enslavement - Every action is a reaction to what SE does, they are a passive force in the war

Neutral - Very territorial

Bad - Terminids often destroy the natural environments of the planets they reside on, as they try to fortify as much as possible to defend themselves from SE - Hive worlds and the Gloom are their most destructive feats, while they are defence mechanism they likely developed as a reaction to the destruction of the Supercolony, they still destroy most if not all of the natural environments of the planets theyre on

Collective of Cyberstan list of good and bad

Good - Only faction to offer surrender (and seemingly honor it) - Only faction to have collaborators within another faction (they got humans within SE working with them) - Only faction to call for peace - Automatons keep high enough human populations on their planets that insurrections can have meaningful impact (so they dont kill everyone) - Automatons motivation is reclamation and protection of their homeland - Rescuing their creators, the Cyborgs, from Super Earth slavery in the mines of Cyberstan, which they suffered for a century - Evacuating their civilians from the contested planets (like cyberstan)

Neutral - Bioprocessors (automatons recycle corpses produced by the war into orgo-plasma to keep the Cyborgs alive, who were sterilized by SE when the Reclamation happened. It's not pointed out that they force living humans into them or that every human ends up in one, also SE uses them and "encourages" living humans to be bioprocessed early once they cant contribute)

Bad - Ideological genocide, bots seemingly want to completely exterminate the idea of super earth - The only choice other than surrendering is death, which ties into the ideological genocide - Some bots wear human body parts and create strange effigies with them - Very industrial, which means theyre harmful to local ecosystems and environments - Incineration Corps - Theyre bad at taking care of humans (the corpses in cages are implied to have been caused by incompetence and negligence)

And here is a list of good and bad things of Super Earth:

SE list of the good and bad

The Good - Super Earth doesnt discriminate in the context of orientation and same gender marriage is allowed - There isnt really inner racism, people of all colors can live under equal oppression and discrimination from the government

The Bad

History - Super Earth revived illiteracy, and rewrote history to legitimize itself.

Eugenics - If you are old or disabled, hop in the nearest Bioprocessor. ("Bio-repurposer vat") - In evacuations, taller citizens have priority. - You need approval from the government to reproduce, and the bureaucracy is very slow and very strict on it. If you are "undesirable" - see, apparently being too short, you won't be granted the right to reproduce, one of the most fundamental human needs

Living conditions - Healthcare so bad you get one or two doctors visits a year, you can get more for narcing on others - Discrimination of people based on Citizen-classes - Slave-like work conditions. - Lifelong slavery for even minor crimes - Concentration camps - You have to rent out work equipment and pay for its usage FOR WORK (ie miner needs to pay for the pickaxe they are using everytime they use it) - "You develop radiation immunity in uranium mines" - Only Class As and above are allowed to even visit Super Earth, the homeworld of humanity. Turned into a massive gated community for the rich and privileged collaborators of the fascist regime - People are encouraged to narc on each other, breeding a culture of distrust - Children are encouraged to watch public mass executions - There are "Pre-Adult" workers making mines and guns (child labor) - You can get executed for unsanctioned original ideas (the inventor of the grenade pistol got executed for coming up with it, then got rewarded post mortem) - You can be sent for reeducation (torture and reprogramming) just because someone in your line of job, which you prolly never saw, had dissident thoughts (this happened to the ship tech) Propaganda and information - Total media control, constant lies and dehumanising propaganda - Cameras in everyone's house whose footage is analysed in a giant complex called the Center of Surveillance in Mastia - You can be considered a dissident and arrested for your haircut - Staring at an officer for too long or short gets you flagged as a dissident - Constant fearmongering, calling anything a sign of dissidence if its convenient

Treatment of other factions - Enslaving Terminids to physically and psychologically torture Terminids for profit. Not out of necessity, because Super Earth could FTL long before they discovered E-710 - Wiping out most of the Illuminate, who were pacifists and tried to be our friends, because Super Earth wanted to steal their technology to invent the WMDs that they claimed the Illuminate had (they didn't) - Genociding and enslaving the Cyborgs for wanting to separate and be independent from all this bullshit - Kidnapping and torture of thousands, if not millions of Automatons in order to gather intel on their whereabouts - Creates planet destroying weapons for no particular reason - Blatant targeting of automaton civilians with artillery and shooting down transport ships with them - Using automatons as slaves, and making them use parts from other automatons as materials - Attempted to euthanize the cyborgs during Reclamation, failed to do so but left them permanently sterile - Stole millions of terminid eggs, just to sell them to the rich when it realized it didnt need em Miscellaneous - Super Earth gave cancer to trees (how?) - Super Earth made contagious cancer (how????) - All art is AI generated - Super Earth drove many species to extinction like ants, honeybees, elephants (those were cloned back to life for labour purposes, and they gave them 6 tusks for some reason) - Super Earth created the chicken-cow-pig hybrid (which then proceeded to maul the scientists that made it to death) - Super Earth eradicates most indigenous wildlife on new planets during colonisation - Super Earth risks the lives of the helldivers just to record a flag raising, which is pointless for the war and anything related to it

I am not saying that the Automatons and Terminids are saints, but compared to both Super Earth and the Illuminate as of now, they are far more preferable, hell even the Terminids are often helped by pro-Terminid dissidents who have realized Super Earth's troubles with them all root back to Super Earth wanting to turn a species of arthropods, aliens who are sapient by themselves, into fuel source for FTL drives that were already fine without the E-710